'We're not hidg': Gay and lbian Rsians say a cultural shift is unrway

Contents:

• GLSEN: GAY, LBIAN & STRAIGHT EDUTN NETWORK
• GAY, LBIAN, AND STRAIGHT EDUTN NETWORK (GLSEN)
• GAY, LBIAN & STRAIGHT EDUTN NETWORK
• 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• QUTN: PERCENT OF LBIAN THE GAY, LBIAN, AND STRAIGHT EDUTN NETWORK'S 2015 NATNAL SCHOOL CLIMATE SURVEY SHOWED ABOUT GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR YOUTH REPORTED FEELG UNSAFE SCHOOL DUE TO THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN 17 40 57 80

GLSEN: GAY, LBIAN & STRAIGHT EDUTN NETWORK

” GLSEN (pronounced “glisten”) stands for the “Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutor Network.

Jenngs found GLSEN, origally lled GLISTN, the “Gay and Lbian Inpennt School Teachers Network”, after wrg an article about his “experienc as an openly gay teacher for the Natnal Associatn of Inpennt Schools’ magaze, Inpennt School. GLSEN renamed self GLSEN, the “Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutor Network, ” 1997 orr to better align wh s “safety” msagg and youth-activism efforts. After policy objectiv like gays openly servg the ary and same-sex marriage were enacted durg the Obama admistratn, LGBTQ activist anizatns like GLSEN seem to have adopted a more radil agenda, to jtify their existence and fundraisg.

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It produc a “natnal school climate survey” reportg on the “experienc of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer youth our natn’s schools.

GLSEN’s “Out Onle: The Experienc of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Youth” First Natnal Report to Look In-Depth at LGBT Youth Experience OnleClick here to download Out Onle. 10, 2013 – Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) youth experience nearly three tim as much bullyg and harassment onle as non-LGBT youth, but also fd greater peer support, accs to health rmatn and opportuni to be civilly engaged, acrdg to a new report released today by GLSEN, the Gay, Lbian & Straight Edutn Network. The study, Out Onle: The Experienc of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Youth on the Inter, is based on natnal surveys of 5, 680 stunts 6-12th gra.

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GLSEN, the Gay, Lbian & Straight Edutn Network, is the leadg natnal tn anizatn foced on ensurg safe schools for all stunts. GLSTN (The Gay, Lbian, and Straight Teachers Network) is the largt anizatn. end homophobia K-12 schools, and to ensure that all stunts are valued.

is the last to suffer om homophobia. (c) 1994-1996 Gay, Lbian & Straight Teachers Network (GLSTN).

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'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY

Natnal Congrs of Amerin IndiansNatnal Associatn of Social WorkersAmerin Public Health AssociatnEngeerg Society of DetroAmerin Society of CrimologyAmerin Medil AssociatnAmerin Chemil SocietyInstute of Packagg ProfsnalsNatnal Associatn of Legal AssistantsAmerin Nursg AssociatnNatnal Sports Marketg NetworkAssociatn of Zoos and AquariumsAmerin Probatn and Parole AssociatnAmerin Osteopathic AssociatnInternatnal Game Developers AssociatnMori Agriculture, Natural Rourc, and Related SciencInternatnal Associatn for Polil Science StuntsNatnal LGBT Chamber of CommerceNatnal Organizatn of Gay and Lbian Scientists and Technil ProfsnalsAmerin Society of Agricultural and Blogil EngeersAmerin Associatn of Polil ConsultantsConsortium of Higher Edutn LGBT Rource ProfsnalsNatnal Associatn for the Self-EmployedNatnal Associatn of Landspe ProfsnalsAssociatn for Computg MacheryPOWER UP FilmsNatnal Society for Hispanic ProfsnalsAgriculture Future of AmeriNatnal Associatn for Bilgual EdutnGLIFAA – Gays and Lbians Foreign Affairs AgenciAmerin Amy of Physician Assistants (AAPA)Acuntg & Fancial Women’s AllianceThe Amerin Associatn of Language SpecialistsNLGJA – The Associatn of LGBTQ JournalistsAmerin Physil Therapy Associatn (APTA)Natnal Associatn of Black AcuntantsAmerin Council on the Teachg of Foreign LanguagThe Publishg TriangleAmerin Psychologil AssociatnAmerin Marketg AssociatnAmerin Geographil SocietyThe Amerin Occupatnal Therapy Associatn, Inc. (Nati Harnik / AP)Edor’s Note: This article is part of a seri about the gay-rights movement and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall groups have always been about a simple, key objective: Stop all the groups are GSAs—Genr-Sexualy Allianc, though they were origally known as Gay-Straight Allianc—and that was their missn when they first rose to promence the late 1980s. Perhaps, the theory was, jt by existg, the groups uld make gay kids feel ls alone, and that self uld rce suici risk, which was mon among gay teens at the Lipk, a former high-school history teacher, an thor, and a proment LGBTQ-rights advote, was one of the GSA movement’s earlit pneers.

(Lipk, now his early 70s, drew spiratn om another queer-advocy school group, the Los Angel–based Project 10, the name a reference to Aled Ksey’s theory that about 10 percent of men are gay.

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”Before long, siar mp clubs were croppg up— the Boston area and beyond—“simultaneoly” and “spontaneoly, ” says Sharon Tentarelli, who as a high-school junr 1989 found the GSA at the prtig boardg school Phillips Amy A iendship fed through the gay-rights movementGSAs sprang up anilly bee of the prence of lears who felt a need for them, not a natnal learship stcture that swooped and set them up.

Though they varied size and strategy om group to group, they tend to share the same basic visn, one articulated by Kev Jenngs, now 56, then a young high-school history teacher at a Boston-area boardg school lled Conrd Amy: Make gay stunts feel ls alone. In 1988 he found the first club to bear the “GSA” and raised the South a fundamentalist Christian fay whose relativ clud members of the KKK, Jenngs grew up surround by racial tolerance and homophobia, he says.

QUTN: PERCENT OF LBIAN THE GAY, LBIAN, AND STRAIGHT EDUTN NETWORK'S 2015 NATNAL SCHOOL CLIMATE SURVEY SHOWED ABOUT GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR YOUTH REPORTED FEELG UNSAFE SCHOOL DUE TO THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN 17 40 57 80

By the time he me out, he was already his send teachg job; he’d been “forced out” of his first one, Jenngs told me, bee he was gay. At the send school, he grew close to a stunt of his who, upon figurg out his teacher was gay, nfid that he, too, liked men. ”Kev Jenngs (purple shirt) alongsi members of the Conrd Amy Gay-Straight Alliance at the 1993 March on Washgton for Gay, Lbian, and Bi Equal Rights (Courty of Kev Jenngs)It was a pivotal moment for Jenngs, who went on to -found the LGBTQ-youth advocy anizatn today known as GLSEN (formerly the Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutn Network), wre var books on LGBTQ jtice schools, and serve as an assistant secretary the Department of Edutn unr Print Barack Obama.