High school lgbtq clubs

Are you running or considering setting up an LGBT+ team in your secondary school or college? Let us build it simple for you!

The LGBT+ Groups in Schools Alliance can ease the workload of school staff by providing everything you need to dash a successful and thriving club. Every week we will send a topical and engaging exercise to your inbox to use with your group members. We will also help you by providing a detailed guide to setting up your club, complimentary training, and ongoing support from The Proud Confidence whenever you demand it.

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Some weeks I felt that I wasn't doing enough to make the club as engaging as it should be. That all changed when I signed up for the LGBT+ Groups in Schools Alliance... I get a weekly email, with activities planned, and suggested discussion relevant to current topics. We still include ongoing projects and plans within academy, but it takes the stress out of my week knowing that I can provide something that will participate students and obtain them excited about being a part of such an amazing and supportive community. Head of Religion, Philosophy &

Coming back to middle educational facility after the pandemic lockdown was scary for me. I worried about not feeling accepted in my school community.

I’m a 14-year-old nonbinary Black artist. I use they/she pronouns, and I don’t have any specific sexual orientation, so I identify as queer.

As a result, I panic about laws being proposed and passed around the country to restrict Gay people like me.

Related: In the wake of ‘Don’t Say Gay,’ LGBTQ students won’t be silenced

In Florida, they passed the so-called Don’t Say Gay rule in March, which prohibits teachers from discussing sexual orientation with young students. Preventing discussion will stop self-expression and will result in more identity issues. Gender non-conforming students are in menace and in fear.

This rule and similar legislation are a threat to students like me, because we rely on safe spaces in schools to advance personally and academically. Homosexual clubs in schools led by caring teachers can provide a sense of community and nurturing spaces for queer students to safely explore their identities.

Imagine growing up feeling appreciate you were born in the wrong body, but no one helped you understand that feeling? When a person feels favor somethi

GSA List

What is a GSA?

A Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA), Genders and Sexualities Alliance (GSA), Queer-Straight Alliance (QSA), Sexuality and Gender Acceptance (SAGA), Queer Intersectional Alliance (QIA), Rainbow, or Pride Club is a student-run club, typically in a sky-high school or middle college, which provides a harmless place for students to meet, support each other, talk about issues akin to sexual orientation, and work to end homophobia and transphobia. Many GSAs function as a help group and provide guard and confidentiality to students who are struggling with their identity as queer , lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or questioning. 

In addition to endorse , some GSAs work on educating themselves and the broader school community about sexual orientation and gender identity issues. Other GSAs are activist clubs and have worked to fetch LGBTQ issues represented in the curriculum, LGBTQ comparable books in the library, and progressive non-discrimination policies implemented at a district level. All of these different types of GSAs also provide a social outlet for LGBTQ students and their straight allies.

For more information and resources about GSAs, please call on the GSA

Pride Groups

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Join our national network of LGBT+ school clubs and receive support, resources and change into part of a community.

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What are Pride Groups?

The Pride Groups programme is a national network of lunchtime/after academy clubs that help LGBT+ and ally young people to learn and fetch support. It’s free to join.

• Run your new or existing Pride Group with ease using our ready-to-go resources, icebreakers, posters and guides
• New activities in your inbox every fortnight
• Connect with hundreds of school staff in our Pride Groups community
• Receive tailored support for running your LGBT+ college group
• Get termly online teaching for Student Leaders
• Give your pupils the opportunity to win competitions and national awards
• Access to online staff training on setting up groups (coming soon)

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"Just Enjoy Us have been absolutely awesome at providing us with fantastic resources to use both within our Pride Groups but also on a whole academy-wide basis.

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Guest postfrom a mentor who now questions his decision to set up an LGBT club at his school.

I am choosing to linger anonymous because I am still a teacher and don’t have the power or energy to withstand the inevitable criticism that will be made about this article. I also do not want the college I worked in or the children I looked after to be identified for obvious reasons. I have decided to write this because I undergo it incumbent on me to illustrate my own experiences as a mentor of gender dysphoric teenagers. I also fear that well-meaning LGBT teachers who don’t subscribe to gender identity theory will be affected by the inevitable backlash against the teachers who accomplish. I refer to myself as queer attracted, rather than gay, in direct to be specific about what this particular aspect of my identity means.

Before I reflect on my experiences creating and running an LGBT club at school, I hope for first of all to say that most teachers are out of their depth in this area specifically, and mental health generally. The main interest for teachers is (and should be) teaching kids a particular subject, be it history, art or physics. Their job is not (and should not be) co