East High Gay/Straight Alliance v. Board of Edutn and East High School PRISM Club v. Cynthia L. Seil (1999) | ACLU of Utah

Contents:

• GAY STRAIGHTALLIANCE
• GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE CLUBS ON RISE IN UTAH, SALT LAKE CY SCHOOL BOARD ENACTS ANTI-DISCRIMATN POLICY
• EAST HIGH GAY/STRAIGHT ALLIANCE V. BOARD OF EDUTN AND EAST HIGH SCHOOL PRISM CLUB V. CYNTHIA L. SEIL (1999)
• GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE NOW …ST GEE, UTAH
• GAY STUNT CLUBS BLOSSOMG UTAH
• HOW A BAN ON EXTRACURRICULAR CLUBS SALT LAKE CY SCHOOLS LED TO ‘AN IMPORTANT TONE GAY RIGHTS’ 20 YEARS AGO
• GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC UTAH
• STUNTS RNE 20 YEARS AFTER A LANDMARK LAWSU OVER GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC UTAH SCHOOLS
• EAST HIGH GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE V. BOARD OF EDUTN OF SALT LAKE CY SCHOOL DISTRICT
• GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE EVENT BREAKS DOWN GENR STEREOTYP
• UTAH BOARD BANS ALL SCHOOL CLUBS ANTI-GAY MOVE

GAY STRAIGHTALLIANCE

Often lled Queer/Straight Allianc or Gay/Straight Allianc (QSAs), the clubs are important rourc for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) stunts, as well as for those who are perceived by others to be LGBTQ, who are qutng their inty, who have LGBTQ iends or fay members, or who jt re about LGBTQ issu. This requirement is troublg bee stunts who are most impacted by this requirement—those who feel they nnot exprs gay-posive viewpots to their parents and those whose parents are not active enough their liv to sign a permissn slip—are the on who would most benef om beg part of a QSA.

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GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE CLUBS ON RISE IN UTAH, SALT LAKE CY SCHOOL BOARD ENACTS ANTI-DISCRIMATN POLICY

Posted 11/4/11 - Gay Straight Allianc are school clubs that aim to create safe and supportive environments for all stunts.

We want to raise awarens about suici rat and promote tn of homosexualy and acceptance for equaly Sat Gee. The New York Tim has reported that over 30 Gay-Straight Alliance school clubs have formed across the state of Utah on the heels of a signifint surge anti-discrimatn policy beg enacted throughout the state.

"The Utah Pri Center recs and supports stunt anizers, trag them to create and manage Gay-Straight Allianc. Gee, Utah, bisexual sophomore stunt Kate Hanson of Snow Canyon High School actively participat her lol GSA club. At the time, McGee and a iend were tryg to create a Gay-Straight Alliance group at Lone Peak High School Highland, Utah, the fall of 2014.

EAST HIGH GAY/STRAIGHT ALLIANCE V. BOARD OF EDUTN AND EAST HIGH SCHOOL PRISM CLUB V. CYNTHIA L. SEIL (1999)

Utah is one of eight stat that has laws, sometim lled “no promo homo” laws, that lim how teachers n talk about LGBTQ issu wh stunts, or forbid altogether.

After a bate at a meetg of the Alpe District school board, the Gay-Straight Alliance was able to move forward. In an attempt to improve the climate at school for stunts like McGee, the advocy groups Equaly Utah and the Natnal Center for Lbian Rights have brought a feral lawsu to overturn Utah’s “no promo homo” law, which prohibs teachers om discsg LGBTQ issu wh stunts. Most were based on the misnceptn that only gay people uld ntract and spread AIDS, acrdg to Peter Renn, senr attorney at LGBTQ advocy anizatn Lambda Legal.

In Oklahoma, the law requir that AIDS tn clu the false claim that “engagg homosexual activy” is one of the behavrs “primarily rponsible for ntact wh the AIDS vis.

GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE NOW …ST GEE, UTAH

School districts Arizona nnot e curriculum that “promot a homosexual liftyle, ” while Utah teachers nnot participate “the advocy of homosexualy. ” (When the laws were passed, “homosexual” was a blanket term for any LGBTQ person, which many LGBTQ lears say is now outdated.

In the absence of curriculum that addrs LGBTQ issu, some stunts those stat have created Gay-Straight Allianc, which are still allowed bee they are n by stunts, not teachers.

LGBTQ stunts are already at an elevated risk for bullyg and vlence at school, and are ls likely to attend class and fish high school, acrdg to a 2015 report om the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network. Peyton Carter, who graduated om Alta High School Draper, Utah, said this reluctance to speak about LGBTQ issu was notable even his muny, where he felt accepted as a gay man.

GAY STUNT CLUBS BLOSSOMG UTAH

In high school, he would notice small signs of support — some teachers had “safe space” stickers outsi their doors, and another teacher told stunts they uldn’t ll somethg “gay” if they meant “stupid. But Alabama, and other stat that still have their anti-sodomy laws tact, the state requir that health teachers tell stunts that “homosexual nduct is a crimal offense. Mississippi’s state policy, which passed 1998, also referenc “current state law” on “homosexual activy, ” which was illegal the state at the time.

HOW A BAN ON EXTRACURRICULAR CLUBS SALT LAKE CY SCHOOLS LED TO ‘AN IMPORTANT TONE GAY RIGHTS’ 20 YEARS AGO

In Texas, whose anti-sodomy law was the foc of the Supreme Court se, tors mt “state that homosexual nduct … is a crimal offense.

GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC UTAH

Patricia Todd, a member of the Alabama Hoe of Reprentativ and the only openly gay elected official the state.

STUNTS RNE 20 YEARS AFTER A LANDMARK LAWSU OVER GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC UTAH SCHOOLS

Raven Rice, 17, and a senr at Grissom High School Huntsville, Alabama, me out as bisexual toward the end of middle school and joed the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance as a hman.

EAST HIGH GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE V. BOARD OF EDUTN OF SALT LAKE CY SCHOOL DISTRICT

A Gay-Straight Alliance, or GSA, is a youth-led school or muny group anized for the purpose of supportg LGBTQ youth and straight alli through discsn, actn, iendship, and advocy. However, while gay stunt anizatns have existed on llege mp sce the civil rights era, the tablishment of siar groups high schools did not occur until the late 1980s. The first gay stunt anizatn Ameri (and perhaps the world) was found at Columbia Universy 1966 unr the name the Stunt Homophile League.

GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE EVENT BREAKS DOWN GENR STEREOTYP

Gay-Straight Allianc the US are protected by the Feral Equal Accs Act of 1984 which, ironilly, was origally sponsored by nservative legislators for the purpose of protectg Bible Clubs and siar relig anizatns high schools.

As of 2007, there were more that 3500 GSAs registered wh the Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN), a natnal anizatn tablished 1990 by Conrd Amy GSA founr Ken Jenngs to advote for the rights and well-beg of LGBTQ stunts. Wele to the Gay Straight Alliance portal, one of the most tnal plac on the web updated daily and dited to each person who striv for human rights.

UTAH BOARD BANS ALL SCHOOL CLUBS ANTI-GAY MOVE

Every gay and straight stunt has a right to a public tn an environment that is ee om harassment, vlence, namellg and timidatn. Amerin rightwg fascists are tryg to stop you om discsg human rights for gay people wh your iends school, but the First Amendment is alive and well the USA.

They nnot claim equaly for gay human begs is beg tght by schools if you, the stunts, are already tg one another about . This is the first sign that such tste, admistrators, and school systems are disgenuo about nontg homophobia and discrimatn; they start out discrimatg agast your anizatn by tryg to dictate s name and prevent s name beg ed to most-easily nvey s purpose.