Creating+Alliances

This Community Action group is for everyone. For anyone, straight or gay, who is willing to step forward create a safe and supportive community. This will be an action oriented Community Connection group. We will be talking with ministers, rabbis and civil rights lawyers to better understand the barriers facing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered youths. The story of America has long been a story of who should and should not be included in this experimental democracy. Over the last two centuries we have witnessed the continuing struggles for liberation and freedom for Native Americans, African Americans, and women, among others. Today the great struggle confronting the nation is, should gays and lesbians be fully included as citizens, and if so, how? The struggle is real, the debate impassioned, and there often seem to be no easy answers.
 * Creating Alliances Between Straight and Gay Students** led by Andy Bigelow and Gary Childrey

Our group will take an in-depth look at how sexual identity develops, the history of gays and lesbians in the U.S. and the struggle for civil rights, the role of religion, and how culture, class, and race influence how various communities vote on these issues. The specific purpose of this project is to create leadership that supports gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT students in an effort to create a safe school for all. We will actively support and sponsor three school wide activities: Ally week, the Day of Sllence and No Name Calling week.

For more information on these issues, see: [|www.glsen.org] or [|www.dayofsilence.org]

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