#high school gsa

[victusinveritas]

[gsmst-blahaj-brigade]

first meeting summary

sorry I forgot to post! Oopsie doopsie I guess lmao

Anyways, first we started by having everyone fill out the Google doc to collect emergency contacts. After, we started by introducing the club itself, what we are about, what we do, and our schedule.

After all that was out of the way, we introduced the club sponsors, and thr club captains. Each person shared their name, pronouns, and something fun.

When Introductions were finished, we moved on to an icebreaker game of would you rather, having everyone move to the left, right, or center of the room depending on their answer. After they moved, we had them discuss something about their answer.

Overall, it was a fun meeting, and the next will be on September 27th, where we will having a game night with karaoke!

[bitchslapblastoids]

did sister daniel have a lesbian situationship at her christian all girls school?

she fuckin ran through that thing like a train, you have no idea. there was nothing left.

……….my all-girls-catholic-high-school-lesbian-romance-having ass is listening intently

[itgetsbetter]

🍎✏️ Back to school advice for queer students, from queer people! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

We asked, y'all answered. Some back to school advice for LGBTQ+ students:

❤️ "Learn Queer history. Learn Black history. Learn Native American history. Learn what has gone into making it possible for you to be who you are, with the amount of safety and support you have — even if it doesn't feel like much." -Brandyn

🧡 "Autistic queer here. Always being buried in a book saved me from a lot. And find your tribe." -queerintech_

💛 "Find your people for support - whether at school or outside of school. You are loved and appreciated for who you are. Anyone that says otherwise doesn't deserve to know you or your story. Our community is sending all the love and support to you everyday!" -Amy

💚 "To my young black feminine boy: be your authentic self, people will judge you, call you slurs, but don't suppress your beauty. To my beautiful black bisexual boy: you don't have to try so hard to suppress what you like, it's okay to like boys." -Tyreece

💙 "Find at least one safe teacher you can go to. You can do this by finding the rainbow sticker on their door or by finding a sign in their room!" -Sonia

💜 "Don’t think for one minute that being bullied should be tolerated. Find help, talk to friends about it. You have the right to be yourself. I also noticed that when I stood up for myself, I was respected more." -Jason

❤️ "Befriend the other little weirdos, they’re going to be the coolest adults (and so are you). Keep your eyes on the horizon, but also know for better or worse you’re never going to experience this time again, so try to make the most of it." -Patrick

🧡 "You don't owe anyone anything. If you don't feel safe to come out, that doesn't make you any less queer." -Kayenta

💛 "Something that three people told me that I now truly believe: 'There is nothing wrong with you. You don't have to change who you are to be loved and respected.' They were right. You will figure things out!" -Bert

💚 "So many people love you. Your teachers want to help - find the good ones. We are out there." -Deirdre

[goatsandgangsters]

does everybody want to hear a funny story about my Favorite High School English Teacher(™)

so my Favorite High School English Teacher was the faculty adviser for the gay-straight alliance and for a student literary magazine of bad angsty poetry, and somewhere in his spare time he volunteered to teach Troubled Youths at the place where my mom worked as a therapist 

so they ran into each other there and they like, vaguely recognized one another and were trying to figure out how they knew each other, and eventually realized “Oh! You’re My Kid’s English Teacher!” 

so he’s like “oh yes, I am, great kid, great student, we have class together and also the gay-straight alliance”

now. admittedly. my favorite high school english teacher should have known better than to tell a parent their kid goes to the gay-straight alliance, but I’ve already told you this is a funny story, so no harm came of it 

but my mom says to herself “hm. what is my kid doing going to the gay-straight alliance.” and she wonders if she should Talk To Me About It. and ultimately decides to respect my privacy and figures that if I want to tell her, I’ll tell her 

this was in like 2009. a solid decade+ has past, during which time I have come out to my parents multiple times, first for my sexuality, then again as trans 

and a year or so ago my mom—tearfully and riddled with guilt—confesses to me about this conversation with my Favorite High School English Teacher and how she’s so sorry that she never talked to me about the gay-straight alliance and how she wanted to respect my privacy but maybe she should have said something and it’s been eating at her ever since I came out that she never did and she wasn’t there for me about it—

which is when I stopped her and told her 

I was never IN the gay-straight alliance with my high school english teacher

I worked with him on the literary magazine 

and yet I was (correctly but too early) assigned gay at English teacher

[its-arson-time]

before high school id stay up late when breaks started and now im going to bed before 8:30 because. im so tired

[annabelle--cane]

also this is completely besides the point but I don't think I've ever heard an evenhanded take on love simon/svthsa from someone who wasn't a kid or teen when the movie came out. I had plenty of problems with it in 2018, and I still do, but I think people who were already adults and really into queer cinema at the time don't get what it felt like to be able to go a local bog standard movie theater and buy a ticket to a movie aimed at your age group that was centrally about queerness without even needing to bring a parent to get you into an R-rated showing. sure, it was kind of cutesy and tame, but edgier queer teen movies get slapped with ratings that make huge amounts of queer teens unable to see them.

[arodabi]

fun game I’ve played for years: putting every trans guy named Lee I’ve known on a scale from good to evil

[palehottubchild]

fr tho i think SLTs is actually such a good concept because im just thinking like yes we had the biology sex education of hormones are a thing and if you dont use a condom this is what your penis will look like but if anyone ANYONE had been open with me about what sexualities are and how they feel then maybe someone wouldve said 'hey this is something that you actually feel its not a thinking thing and yes, some people actually DO start this early. if you dont relate maybe look into the words asexual and aromantic' then i would have maybe felt less like a freak and not forced myself through both guys and girls trying to find something that actually felt right because right now nobody talks about it especially not when it comes to teenagers which is fair enough but also it really really would have been beneficial to me and im sure other people if it was discussed in a respectful controlled manner

[ofpd]

writing a modern au is actually harder bc you gotta come up w something for les amis to be doing. vague irrelevant social justice club isn't doing it for me

[gsmst-blahaj-brigade]

firat meeting

our first meeting will be on Friday the thirteenth! Can't wait!

Will post the meeting summary and what went down at the GSA intro meeting! Hopefully we get a lot of new folks in the club :3

[gxlden-angels]

I finally found the little ✨Dream Girl✨ passage in the Faithgirlz! Bible that made me realize I might just be gay

[itgetsbetter]

Advice for LGBTQ+ students going back to school this year:

We asked our community what advice they would give LGBTQ+ students going back to school this fall and they ANSWERED and now we are cryinggg:

🍎 Nothing gets better in a vacuum. It gets better because of the experience you gain, the relationships you build, and the tireless effort of people you may never come to know. Why? Because you are worth it, sweetheart. We will love you with profound depth until and after you begin to love yourself. - Nick

✏️ Identify your safe people. I had a “safe person-safe place” sign on my school bus. Any student could approach me at anytime for any need and I’d have their back. This was especially true for my LGBTQ+ riders. I like to think I set the tone of inclusion for all my kids to follow. Once I declared the bus a safe space with no room for intolerance, the kids all felt free to be themselves. And they were all beautiful, wonderful people! -Lisa

🏳️‍🌈 I had someone in high school that NEVER talked to or associated with me. We ran into each other at a party a few weeks ago. I got hugged. I also got invited, with my husband of 22 years, to a party this weekend. It DOES get better. People grow up, learn things, and change. -Michael

🏳️‍⚧️ Just because it’s safe for some people to be “visibly out” doesn’t mean you HAVE to be. Do what makes YOU feel comfortable and SAFE. Being out and proud and loud is great, but you can still be proud without being obvious if that’s what you need to do. There’s not just one way to be, it doesn’t make you any less valid - Kaitlin

🍎 It is entirely up to you where and when and how to be out or not be out.

Find your people - other queer & trans kids, allies, teachers, school staff & love each other fiercely

Find those who will speak for you when you can’t speak up for yourself.

Find safe spaces & people outside of school, find spaces and people that allow you to be you.

Know that you have a whole community of queer and trans and non- binary folks cheering for you, supporting you & loving you. When no one else is, imagine us surrounding you. - Heather

✏️ Be bold, be brave, be unapologetically you. Embrace your authentic self, radiate your truth, and let the world witness the beauty of your existence. - Daniel

🏳️‍🌈 School is only one part of life - a relatively small and short part. Even if it feels enormous and all-consuming now. Make the most of it if you can. Just wait it out if you need to. It does not last forever. - Sera

🏳️‍⚧️ Remember that you are equal to every person. No one is superior to you. And, this segment of your life is far from permanent. Try to enjoy it, but realize that it will remain in the past as you advance into the future. You are in school for the primary reason of learning. Be a glutton for this learning, because what you learn is truly among the things that cannot be taken or stolen from you. Don't give up on your dreams, no matter how farfetched they may seem. I thought my dreams were lofty when I was in school. But I found that I had never aimed higher than I could easily go. There is a vast world of people who already love you, and I am surely one of them. - Marc

[wings-of-sapphire]

Omg I think I just experienced my first “want to be referred to as only they/them” moment

[trans-poppy]

[mars-ipan]

what’s everyone’s fav joke to make about their specific labels. i’ll go first: i’m queer, aspec and genderfluid, which means i don’t make choices unless that choice is “no”