Chigo Gay Alliance

Contents:

• CHIGO GAY ALLIANCE
• GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC PUBLIC SCHOOLS: AGENTS OF EARLY ADOLCENT ALIENATN
• RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS

CHIGO GAY ALLIANCE

Gay Straight Alliance For Safe Schools (GSAFE). Gay-straight allianc (GSAs) are herald for their role providg safe spac and social outlets for queer stunts public schools the Uned Stat. Yet, for the past 20 years, many high schools across 27 stat have created and tablished Gay-Straight Allianc (GSAs) whose primary missns are “to empower youth activists to fight homophobia and transphobia schools” (GSA Network, 2010).

Sce GSAs reprent one of the only attempts to addrs homophobia public schools, they provi the only micro-level mol that might be ed to rm future policy. Viewg Homosexualy through a Heteronormative Lens.

For a simple example, one need only look to the popular media, where a very specific stereotype of the “gay man” (Csian, tall, slenr, well-ted) and “lbian woman” (generally, a antly femist woman) are reified and perpetuated. For example, Queer as Folk, a seri that ran on the premium HBO work om 2000 to 2005, was largely unsuccsful bee s characters were unabashedly accurate portrayals of different personali wh queer society (specifilly, wh the homosexual male subculture). When examg gay-straight allianc, then, one of the major ncerns is that “gay-straight allianc will broadst the difference between gay stunts and straight stunts” (Schwartz et al.

GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC PUBLIC SCHOOLS: AGENTS OF EARLY ADOLCENT ALIENATN

Th, while the motive of the school clubs is to elimate homophobia and to empower margalized youth (GSA Network 2010; Miceli 2005), psychosocial theory and recent events show that early adolcents are not able to make this nnectn.

RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS

The Gay-Straight Alliance: A Se of Simultaneo Affirmatn and Alienatn. G., Adams & Carson 2006; Blumenfeld 1995; Holm & Cahill 2004; Miceli 2005), there is much to be sired the realm of examg the effectivens of gay-straight allianc practice.

Acrdg to the Gay-Straight Alliance Network (2010), the stunt groups are. The stunts seek terventn at a higher level and often mand that admistrators draft “nondiscrimatn and anti-harassment polici and anti-homophobia iativ” (54). (2009) expla that most ristance to the tablishment of gay-straight allianc stems om parents, muny lears, and teachers, not om stunts themselv.

Therefore, is plsible that gay-straight allianc may allow stunts to build a solid group inty (Erikson 1963) and an affirmg sense of self (Newman and Newman 2009). The number of state-regnized gay-straight allianc is on the rise (GSA Network 2010), but so too are suicis among the very group that the anizatns purport to aid (LGBTQ Natn 2010). It is te that gay-straight allianc do, to some extent, create a space which the queer stunt n form a strong fily to others wh the same stat.