Canadian Bar Associatn - Gay-Straight Allianc Alberta: A Fom for Safety and Support

Contents:

• GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC
• GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE (GSA) NETWORK
• GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC ALBERTA: A FOM FOR SAFETY AND SUPPORT
• GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE LEGISLATN CIDG FACTOR FOR NOTLEY TO STAY POLICS
• GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE LAW CHALLENGED AT ALBERTA COURT OF APPEAL
• 'IOLOGIL SEXUAL CLUBS': ALBERTA GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE LAW FAC URT CHALLENGE
• GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC AND RELIG SCHOOLS: A CLASH OF RIGHTS & FREEDOMS
• GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC
• ALBERTA’S NEW NSERVATIVE ERNMENT REVISS GAY-STRAIGHT STUNT ALLIANC
• BILL 10 TO ALLOW GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC FOR ANY STUNT ALBERTA SCHOOLS
• GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC NOW MANDATORY ALBERTA: 'WE’RE NO LONGER THAT REDNECK, ROUGHNECK PROVCE'
• UCP TN PLATFORM REIGN FIERCE BATE OVER L AROUND GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC ALBERTA SCHOOLS
• GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC
• GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC ALBERTA: A FOM FOR SAFETY AND SUPPORT
• 'IOLOGIL SEXUAL CLUBS': ALBERTA GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE LAW FAC URT CHALLENGE
• UCP TN PLATFORM REIGN FIERCE BATE OVER L AROUND GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC ALBERTA SCHOOLS

GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC

As peer support works, GSAs/QSAs help LGBTQ2S+ stunts overe feelgs of isolatn and alienatn that are a rult of homophobic and transphobic bullyg. Unfortunately, many LGBTQ2S+ youth live fear of beg rejected by their fay and peers and are aaid of homophobic and transphobic bullyg.

Posive Impacts of Gay-Straight/Queer-Straight Allianc. They help stunts learn about different life experienc while workg to end homophobia, transphobia and promotg equy and qualy for all. Every stunt has the right to belong to a gay-straight alliance (GSA) or queer-straight alliance (QSA).

You n be lled the GSA or QSA or you n choose a different name such as, but not limed to Straight and Gay Alliance Club, Acceptance Club, Diversy Group or Spectm Club.

GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE (GSA) NETWORK

Startg a Gay-Straight Alliance Your School: A Tip Sheet for Stunts. Stunts may choose a rpectful and clive name, cludg "gay-straight alliance" or "queer-straight alliance.

Different groups e different nam, but some mon nam are Genr and Sexualy Alliance (GSA), Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) or Queer Straight Alliance (QSA). Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, and Two-spir ("LGBTQ2+") youth are some of the most vulnerable members of our muny.

GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC ALBERTA: A FOM FOR SAFETY AND SUPPORT

Gay-Straight Allianc ("GSAs") — stunt groups aimed at fosterg safety and support of LGBTQ2+ stunts — are a direct rponse to this unfortunate realy.

In 2017, the Alberta Government — led by a different polil party — passed Bill 24 (An Act to Support Gay-Straight Allianc). Alberta Teachers' Associatn: Gay-Straight Stunt AlliancThe ATA has rourc signed to help teachers create, foster and sta gay-straight stunt allianc (or siar spac) Alberta high an LGBTQ+ AllyAs our world be more acceptg of broar and more diverse inti, you may have qutns about how you n better support the LGBTQ+ muny.

GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE LEGISLATN CIDG FACTOR FOR NOTLEY TO STAY POLICS

This gui will help answer those Jump-Start Gui to GSAsThis rource is for new and already-tablished Gay-Straight Allianc (GSAs) or siar clubs. NDP Lear Rachel Notley’s one-term ernment had e to an end the electn that gave the Uned Conservativ a majory ernment, and Notley says she nsired whether new blood was she says what tipped the balance her cisn to stay was when the UCP troduced legislatn 2019, which later passed, erasg measur brought by the NDP to strengthen protectns for gay-straight allianc said at the time the bill was troduced that while clud provisns for the allianc, diluted the l to allow schools to lay settg up GSAs and gave them the opportuny to rm parents if their children jo one. Gay-straight allianc are clubs meant to prevent bullyg and foster acceptance of LGBTQ kids also told the meetg the UCP “dragged Alberta backwards” by “refg climate actn” and fundg “els war rooms, ” a reference to an arm’s-length agency stuted to unter environmental said the electn loss 2019 was tough, but that Albertans were tellg the party they “had some work to do.

GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE LAW CHALLENGED AT ALBERTA COURT OF APPEAL

Alberta gay-straight alliance law go to Court of Appeal. WATCH: A urt of appeal heard both sis on the impacts of gay straight allianc school.

A legal challenge beg mounted agast Alberta’s ntroversial law around gay-straight allianc went before a three-judge panel Calgary on Monday. ”READ MORE: Judge dismiss requt to put Alberta gay-straight alliance law on holdBut those who support LGBTQ stunts say members of GSAs are often vulnerable and their rights should be protected wh rpect to “g out” on their own Krse wh the Calgary Sexual Health Centre said stunts shouldn’t be subjected to havg someone else “out them.

EdmontonAlberta's law banng schools om tellg parents when their children jo a gay-straight alliance fac s first legal challenge. Parents want right to know when their children jo GSAsEdutn Mister David Eggen speaks wh teens after the passg of Alberta's ntroversial gay-straight alliance bill Edmonton, on Nov 15, 2017.

'IOLOGIL SEXUAL CLUBS': ALBERTA GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE LAW FAC URT CHALLENGE

(Jason Franson/The Canadian Prs)Alberta's law banng schools om tellg parents when their children jo a gay-straight alliance fac s first legal challenge. Schools n't out GSA members to their parents unr proposed Alberta lawAlberta tn mister rejects sex-tn curriculum of Catholic schoolsThe lawsu was filed April rponse to a law passed by Premier Rachel Notley's ernment late last allianc are peer support works anized by stunts to help gay kids feel wele and to prevent bullyg or abe.

The group argu urt documents that keepg parents out of the loop vlat multiple charter eedoms, cludg eedom of relign and also says gay-straight allianc are "iologil sexual clubs" where graphic rmatn on gay sex is group also says the law has "stripped parents of the abily to know fully where their children are, who they are volved wh, and what they may be enuraged to thk or do. "The peer groups have been the subject of heated polil bate for 's ernment ma the change to the law last year after Opposn Uned Conservative Lear Jason Kenney said he believed parents, s where their children's safety was at risk, should be told when they jo a gay-straight has never explaed how teachers should be able to effectively judge when a child's safety is at risk. Advot say children n tell their parents any time they want about beg a gay-straight alliance.

'It tak the whole pot out of a GSA, ' teen says of UCP motnUCP members ignore MLA pleas to vote agast gay-straight alliance motnCorrectnsThis is a rrected story.

GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC AND RELIG SCHOOLS: A CLASH OF RIGHTS & FREEDOMS

Schools Alberta are now required to tablish a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) for those stunts who requt one. By Lda Mckay-PanosGay-straight allianc (GSAs) are groups formed schools and n by stunts wh teacher support or sponsorship. The purpose of a GSA is to create welg, rg, rpectful and safe spac for LGBTQ2S+ (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer or Qutng, Two-Spir, Intersex, Pansexual, Asexual, Androgyno) stunts and their alli.

GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC

Acrdg to Ian Macgillivray (see: Gay-Straight Allianc: A Handbook for Stunts, Edutors and Parents, 2007), gay-straight allianc ARE:stunt clubs started and n by stunts, for stunts;treated like any other stunt club a school;a safe place for stunts to get support that they sometim nnot fd at home;a good way to addrs the social and emotnal isolatn endured by some LGBTQ stunts;an effective way to te the school muny about human rights, equaly and diversy; andshown to crease bullyg, vlence and risky the other hand, he not that gay-straight allianc are NOT:sex or datg clubs;an official endorsement of sexual orientatn;limed to LGBTQ stunts; oranti-fah or anti-relig. (See Gay-Straight Allianc: Creatg Safer Schools for LGBT Stunts and their Alli, GLSEN Rearch Brief.

Stunts are more willg to reveal their sexual orientatn or genr inty and see their school climate as beg ls homophobic. 1);prcipals uld not prohib or disurage stunts om llg the club a “gay-straight alliance” or “queer-straight alliance” (s.

1)); andall schools Alberta that receive public fundg mt publish a policy that clearly allows stunts to form a gay-straight alliance (s.

ALBERTA’S NEW NSERVATIVE ERNMENT REVISS GAY-STRAIGHT STUNT ALLIANC

Bill 8: The Edutn Amendment Act will e to force on September 1, rpect to GSAs, the Alberta Government not the ma chang ma by Bill 8 clu:removg the requirement that a prcipal mt immediately form a GSA upon requt;removg the guarantee that stunts n e “gay” or “queer” their school club’s name;while schools are required to create polici alg wh welg, safe, rg and rpectful schools, the new legislatn do not nta the same requirements for the ntent of the polici; andwhile Alberta privacy legislatn erns privacy nsiratns, the provisns the School Act prohibg notifitn have been have been several protts agast Bill 8.

BILL 10 TO ALLOW GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC FOR ANY STUNT ALBERTA SCHOOLS

So she started the Calgary school’s first gay-straight stunt-n clubs, found hundreds of schools across North Ameri, provi a venue for gay stunts and their alli to meet — often whout the knowledge of their parents. Studi suggt they n help rce bullyg, improve health out and lsen the risk of across Canada and beyond, they have also been lightng rods for ntroversy, touchg as they do on divisive bat around tn, parental nsent, relig eedom and stunts’ the Uned Conservative ernment of new Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, promoted by some on the Canadian right as a mol for the natn, has passed legislatn that gay rights activists say will roll back protectns for the tn law, which passed late Friday after a bative 40-hour bate, elimat a requirement that schools form clubs “immediately” when asked by stunts, and drops an explic ban on notifyg their parents.

”Cheeman, now 19, and others say gay-straight allianc are unr asslt Alberta.

GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC NOW MANDATORY ALBERTA: 'WE’RE NO LONGER THAT REDNECK, ROUGHNECK PROVCE'

” But changg the l on gay-straight stunt allianc (GSAs), his ernment is takg on one of the most 2015, Alberta’s Progrsive Conservative ernment required school officials to approve the clubs every school, public or private, where a stunt requted one.

Before Bill 24, he said, iends were “on the fence” about jog a gay-straight alliance, bee they feared they would be outed.

UCP TN PLATFORM REIGN FIERCE BATE OVER L AROUND GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC ALBERTA SCHOOLS

There will be no adle for school admistrators to grant a stunt’s requt to tablish a club, and stunts will no longer be assured the right to e words such as “gay” and “queer” the nam of their law also elimat language that explicly prohibed teachers om disclosg a stunt’s participatn to his or her parents. LaGrange did not rpond to qutns about whether there would be a adle for a school to form a gay-straight alliance before the ernment stepped . ”Kristopher Wells, a profsor at MacEwan Universy Edmonton who studi sexual and genr mory youth and health, said the ernment is “softeng and obscurg the language” around gay-straight allianc, “creatg nfn and ambiguy.

MLAs at the Alberta legislature have passed a bill that would mandate gay-straight allianc any school where stunts want them. Liberal MLA Lrie Blakeman was overjoyed the ernment reversed s stance on gay-straight allianc. Prentice said he changed his md bee of what he read the media — "about how stunts and young people were rpondg to the difficult bate that was surroundg gay-straight allianc and Bill 10, " he said.

Gay Straight Alliance. A topic that has ptured headl recent weeks volv an unlikely foc — namely, school clubs that support stunts who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr/two-spired, queer and others (LGBTQ+).

GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC

The school groups, monly known as gay-straight allianc (GSAs), offer a safe and llegial gatherg place for any stunts who seek to improve a school’s climate for genr and sexual mory stunts. They talked ndidly about growg up gay Red Deer, about wishg to be like the st members of the popular s Friends, but knowg they were somehow different.

GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC ALBERTA: A FOM FOR SAFETY AND SUPPORT

The Act to Support Gay-Straight Allianc received royal assent December 2017 and then me to effect April 1, 2018. Today, rearch is clear that the existence of a gay-straight alliance a school will improve the learng environment for all of the stunts there, and particularly for sexual mory stunts.

'IOLOGIL SEXUAL CLUBS': ALBERTA GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE LAW FAC URT CHALLENGE

Candidate Allan Hunsperger wrote a blog that homosexuals would suffer the rt of eterny the lake of fire, and Wildrose lear Danielle Smh’s refal to admonish him or distance herself om his views are regard as factors her loss. Jt last week, a 2013 rerdg surfaced which UCP ndidate Mark Smh me unr scty for ments appearg to qutn if homosexual love is real love.

Further, the NDP recently released a mpaign attack vio that draws attentn to a s-old vio showg a younger Kenney discsg leadg a petn agast gay spoal rights San Francis. On the issue of gay-straight allianc, I wish to refer you to a ltle piece of paper that we ll the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the supreme law of Canada.

They n talk about beg gay, straight, girls who want to be boys boys who want to be girls, they n talk about how mean Ms.

UCP TN PLATFORM REIGN FIERCE BATE OVER L AROUND GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC ALBERTA SCHOOLS

Nobody is gog to “turn them gay”, but lettg them talk about what gog on their life may get them through to graduatn. David Eggen, NDP tn mister at the time, walks wh kids on his way to speak about the passg of Alberta’s gay-straight alliance bill Edmonton 2017. The NDP’s current platform ms s ernment to rtorg the rights of youth to form and jo gay-straight allianc (GSAs) wh privacy protectns, to expand verage for trans health re and to velop an clive and affirmg curriculum.

Why gay-straight alliance clubs uld sway the Alberta electn.

In terms of visibily and reprentatn, the NDP’s Janis Irw (Alberta’s “ML Gay”) has a monstrable rerd of advocy on 2SLGBTQ+ rights. June 2018 before a urt challenge to an Alberta law that prevented schools om tellg parents if their children joed gay-straight allianc.