Anyway- so far we haven't done much with HUE, but i'm open to any ideas anyone has that they have done with their GSA or any activities they think would be good.

If your school does have a GSA, please list the name and location of your school/club in this thread and any advisors that our advisor could get in contact with.

Are there any students that talk bad about your group and think that its creepy?

My gay friendwas telling me that homosexuality is accepted soo much more up north then it tends to be in the south.
It seems like, no matter how modern and high-tech we are here in Dallas, there are always some "rednecks" around that are bashing gays, blacks, etc.

Nice Website :-)

In any case, we didn't have a super-easy time starting a GSA either, though we did get approved after a few months of waiting.

The administration was actually all for-it from the start, but the activities advisor gave them second thoughts and we were forced to wait.

Our club all started when my friend and I anoymously e-mailed a teacher we both had and respected (who is married, btw) and asked how we should go about starting this club.

She was VERY iffy at first, but promised that she'd find out some info for us. -it turned out that the substance abuse advisor was interested in helping us out to get started, and eventually she became the advisor of HUE.

Good luck in the rest of your school years, and I hope that even w/ out a gsa you and your friends fight the homophobia by just being there and being tolerent/out/whatever.

-adena

Those ads required on the tripod page are really bugging me and some of them are just inappropriate for the atmosphere and comfort i want my page to have.

If the page was @ scarleteen, obviously a link and any other information you required would be put on there, but would you have any banner advertisements like those on tripod? Thanks a lot for the info!

Drop me a mail and we can talk about this: boardmom@scarleteen.com

Eventually (during my final year) the group was alloted an office and support number through tireless efforts of certain SU members, the support group itself, and the student newspaper. It did come down to threatening lawsuit as described above.

The group still runs a strict "no-outing" policy due to the severe homophobia at the university. This is not within the student body so much as in the Catholic Tradition of the administration. I had to publish a response to the Pink Triangle issue we do every year at the student paper, from a rather high ranking official at the university expressing their disgust at the strong gay presence and our promotion of a "wrong" lifestyle. However I am very happy that the presence of the gay lesbian bi-sexual group has received much support from the student body at large, and has allowed the group to run it's own fund raising (it used to run fund raising through the Students' Union in order to disassociate any membership). When I see younger people showing so much acceptance, as we tried to promote in a very unaccepting environment it reminds me how much has changed, but also how much more has to be done. I really think your club is inspirational along with this website - please keep up the wonderful work.

Here is a link to contact the New York State branches: http://www.nyclu.org/contact.html#Main

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We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

but i would say this is a big victory anyway. go ElMo!

My school does have a GSA, known as Allies, but I've never been to it. The reason? I'm afraid. My school does have quite a few people that aren't too keen on the idea of bisexuality/homosexuality, and I would be afraid that I would get the label of being "one of them", a label which sets you up from criticism from the not-so-accepting people.

And also, I think I am bisexual, so I would be interested in going to a meeting to see what it's all about, but in order to do that, I would have to stay after school. Staying after school usually gets the question from my parents, "What did you stay after for today?" What would I say? My parents don't know about my orientation, and at this point I don't want them to know. I don't want to lie about what I was doing after school, but what else could I do?

I wish such clubs were somehow more accessible. I don't know how they could be, but that's what I would want

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Originally posted by icatchfire:
I'm fortunate to go to a school that is very open minded. we have a on-campus club called GLASS.
[b]Gay Lesbian And Straight Students[/B]

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How many mawrtyrs does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
One, and 5 to support her sexuality.

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Originally posted by cumquat:
We're very accepting and a lot of us are GBL (not transexuals, not that we wouldn't be accepting! just that there aren't any at my school.)

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Ya know, cumquat, you wouldn't necessarily know if someone in your school is transgendered. Assumptions like that might be making the environment less comfortable for anyone who might not be out about their gender.

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And that's my rant,
Jessie

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I care because 95% of the people on this planet could disappear and be replaced with futons. And, other than the brief period where everyone wandered around saying, "Hey, where'd this futon come from?" the general quality of conversation would not deteriorate.