See what ’s like to major Gay and Lbian Studi and learn what a sample llege curriculum clus and the reers you’ll be prepared for after graduatn.
Contents:
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.
GAY AND LBIAN STUDI
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. It produc a “natnal school climate survey” reportg on the “experienc of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer youth our natn’s schools.
Although the laws are often referred to as “no promo homo” laws, Rosky (2017) suggts that there are five typ of anti-LGBTQ+ curriculum legislatn: “don’t say gay, ” “no promo homo, ” “anti-homo, ” “promo hetero, ” and “abstence until marriage. ” While the laws stem mostly om HIV-epimic-era homophobia, they also center narrow views of sexual and reproductive health that have been ed to systematilly discrimate agast poor people, people of lor, and people wh disabili (see Barcelos, 2020; Betts, 2021).