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THE RADIL HISTORY OF THE FIRST GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCETHE RADIL HISTORY OF THE FIRST GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE
In 2016, we formally changed our name to Genrs & Sexuali Alliance Network (formerly Gay-Straight Alliance Network) after hearg om untls youth lears who unrstand their genrs and sexuali to be uniquely theirs and have moved beyond the labels of gay and straight, and the lims of a bary genr system. ActivismJune 24, 2022The Radil History of the First Gay-Straight AllianceIn 1972, high school stunts New York Cy formed a revolutnary group that wanted power, not jt pri.
When Elie Lamadrid, 18, suggted startg an after-school gay youth club the wter of 1972, Gee Washgton High School, the Washgton Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, had been a source of trouble for school admistrators and cy officials. The Stonewall Inn, unlike many other gay bars, also tered to a clientele of trans, genr-fluid, and unhoed teenagers who, bee of their age, were barred om other waterg hol.
From s start, the gay liberatn movement was also a youth movement—and one of the primary plac om which spread was high school.