So, what exactly is a Gay Straight Alliance? |

Contents:

• GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC
• ALL ABOUT GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC
• SO, WHAT EXACTLY IS A GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE?
• 'IOLOGIL SEXUAL CLUBS': ALBERTA GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE LAW FAC URT CHALLENGE
• 'MORE VAL NOW:' GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC GO VIRTUAL DURG RONAVIS PANMIC
• 'GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE' NAME FORC BATE ONTAR
• THE HORRIBLE TRUTH OF GAY/STRAIGHT ALLIANCE CLUBS
• GAY-STRAIGHT/GENRS & SEXUALI ALLIANC
• GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC
• ALBERTA’S NEW NSERVATIVE ERNMENT REVISS GAY-STRAIGHT STUNT ALLIANC

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. Startg a Gay-Straight Alliance Your School: A Tip Sheet for Stunts.

ALL ABOUT GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC

Stunts may choose a rpectful and clive name, cludg "gay-straight alliance" or "queer-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. Gay Straight Alliance. Gay Straight Alliance For Safe Schools (GSAFE).

Participatg stunts may intify as two-spir, lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, qutng, tersex, asexual, pansexual, nonbary (2SLGBTQ+) and many other inti. Prevly referred to as Gay-Straight Allianc, now the acronym “GSA” more equently stands for “Genr and Sexualy Alliance” to reflect the full spectm of sexual and romantic orientatns, and to explicly clu trans and genr diverse muny members. Many GSAs functn as support groups that provi safety and nfintialy for stunts qutng their inty or stgglg wh homophobia and/or transphobia.

SO, WHAT EXACTLY IS A GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE?

Some also te themselv and the broar school muny about sexual orientatn, sexual inty, genr inty, genr exprsn and create awarens about the effects of and how to challenge sexist stereotyp, homophobia and transphobia. Many straight, cisgenr youth are volved bee they regnize that endg homophobia and transphobia are important civil rights and human rights issu. This clus homophobia and transphobia, but n also clu racism, sexism, ableism, relig discrimatn, and more.

Homophobic and transphobic harassment and vlence are very mon schools and among teenagers.

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

While addrsg transphobia and homophobia is the rponsibily of all TDSB employe, GSAs that nduct stunt and teacher sensivy trags typilly see a crease slurs, name-llg, and harassment followg their advocy efforts. Even other stunts (not the GSA) will be drawn to the school-wi discsn of homophobic and transphobic cints and attus. In the past, homophobic admistrators Ontar have told stunts they nnot ll their group a Gay-Straight Alliance.

What is a Gay-Straight Alliance?

Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) clubs are stunt groups that une youth who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, two-spir, and all other non-normative genr and sexual inti, such as non-bary (LGBTQ2+).

'MORE VAL NOW:' GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC GO VIRTUAL DURG RONAVIS PANMIC

WATCH ABOVE: Alberta's NDP ernment is makg clear that schools n't out gay children to their parents.

'GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE' NAME FORC BATE ONTAR

As the Alberta ernment mov to strengthen l surroundg the creatn of Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) clubs publicly fund schools and the protect the privacy of the stunts who jo them, there’s a qutn as to whether the public tly unrstands what happens when stunts meet. “What people thk is ‘oh, ’s a GSA, all we’re talkg about is gay and lbian rights, '” said Garon.

”READ MORE: Edmonton-area schools orred to allow gay-straight allianc for LGBTQ stuntsFor Rattee, the affirmatn om former stunts of the club’s impact unrsr the need for the group. Jason Kenney offered help to set up meetg wh gay-straight groups after k.

Wildrose lear refut report sayg he flip-flopped on gay-straight allianc. Hundreds of Alberta teachers, stunts attend gay-straight alliance nference. EdmontonAlberta's law banng schools om tellg parents when their children jo a gay-straight alliance fac s first legal challenge.

THE HORRIBLE TRUTH OF GAY/STRAIGHT ALLIANCE CLUBS

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.

(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/GENRS & SEXUALI ALLIANC

Lily Overacker and Lrell Pallot start each gay-straight alliance meetg wh everyone troducg themselv, sayg their pronouns and sharg highs and lows of the lately 's been through email chas stead of -person for the Gra 12 stunts Labe, school clubs are meant to provi safe spac for LGBTQ stunts and their alli.

"Gay-straight allianc are movg onle, to ensure support is still available durg the panmic.

Ontar policians are batg legislatn on bullyg schools, while the provce's Catholic bishops object to g the name "gay-straight alliance. What they object to is that Bill 13, the acceptg schools act, giv "particular emphasis" to "LGBTTIQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenred, transsexual, two-spired, tersexed, queer and qutng) people. " They also oppose a particular clse that would enable stunts to ll anti-bullyg groups they form at school a "gay-straight alliance.

GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC

Protters outsi a high school Flour Bluff, Texas, on March 4, 2011, support a senr at the school, after she was nied permissn to start a gay-straight alliance club.

A 2011 study fund by Egale Canada Human Rights Tst, a gay rights advocy group, found that "20. Stunts support GSAsThere is also strong support for gay-straight allianc om stunts both public and Catholic schools a 2011 survey of over 7, 000 stunts for the Ontar Stunt Tste' Associatn, 88 per cent agreed, "that a stunt wantg to tablish a Gay Straight Alliance club their school should be allowed to do so.

Found bullyg of sexual mory stunts is ls mon schools that have an anti-homophobia policy and/or have a gay-straight a May 28 terview wh CBC Rad's Matt Galloway, Ontar Edutn Mister Lrel Broten fend her new amendments. "To many of our stunts, we know that the term gay-straight alliance has great meang and that words matter and that if you n't name somethg, you n't addrs , " she Squire, chair of the London District Catholic School Board, told CBC Rad's Wei Chen that "no stunt has e forward and said they want a gay-straight alliance.

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

'We are all sners'Thomas Cardal Colls, archbishop of Toronto, oppos an Ontar ernment bill that would allow stunts any school to form groups lled gay-straight allianc. (Alsandro Bianchi/Rters)The Toronto archbishop views GSAs as "a particular method of addrsg one form of bullyg, and providg personal support" and a mol closely related to the gay his May 28 prs nference, Colls asked, "Why are Catholics and Catholic schools not ee to atta the same goal, of love and rpect for everybody, not allowed to atta the same goals their own different ways?