What are your thoughts on them? Has anyone ever started one? Did your school have it/does your school have it? Did it help the School environment overall for you? I'm curious since I've been thinking about trying to start one at my own school, but I'm not quite sure what to expect.
We have this huge and amazing GSA at my school, that has helped a lot of things around the community. It was started this year, but it's done a lot and it'll probably do so much more as the time progresses. I'm too shy to join it, but I'm just happy it exists where I'm at.
My school is so homophobic that if somebody mentions the word "gay" they act like they've been hit by a bus
Not my school, but the neighboring high school had one. We all kind of made fun of it, even gay people who weren't involved would make fun of it. It's not that the idea was stupid, but that particular group was kind of a joke and a bunch of goofballs. I guess if gay straight alliances are helpful to some folks then I'm all for it. I would imagine they don't attract the type of straight people who are any sort of homophobic though, so idk if they really make a difference changing anyone's mind.
My school replaced all clubs with anti gay, anti transgender, anti different gender identity, and anti different gender expression chapels.
GSAs are pretty great from my experience, they're a good place for LGBT+ kids and allies to get together, and often can be a good platform of support. It did help the school environment, and depending on your environment specifically, a GSA can also push for positive change in school and education/awareness of LGBT+ issues, which are always important in school environments. I don't know if my school's one would count as a "traditional" GSA- but things we did included having a website dedicated to LGBT+ issues in the local area, and using it to publish informational posts; we also did some awareness raising around school, and just met up every week for discussions.
My college has one called PRIDE that I've gone to almost every week. My highschool didn't have a GSA, which wasn't surprising considering they made quite a storm when they banned students from wearing clothes that "didn't corespondent to their gender".
Hello, Our school has a LGBTQ drop in, and I assume they wouldn't turn any straight or binary gender people down who wanted to help or had questions of their own. Although I have to say our school does go a bit over the top with acceptance posters. I feel that the key to acceptance is to not make a big deal about it [anything] and they are. They do accept it, in their terms, but in my terms, making a big deal about it [which includes posters] is making it seem different, when it's actually the same [biological stuff people can't choose]. Although I have to say our school doesn't allow boys who feel like boys to wear skirts. I think that boys should have the option of skirts or trousers, same as girls, because if they had the choice, they might choose it. [If someone wants to tell me why this would never work, please do].
Our school doesn't have a GSA, and although it would be nice I don't think we really need one. I don't go a homophobic school: if someone comes out or something LGBT-related happens, most people just couldn't care less. I don't think people would engage much in a GSA.
What are your thoughts on them? They sound like a cool idea. Has anyone ever started one? I haven't personally. Did your school have it/does your school have it? I'm not sure, I found a leaflet that mentioned a LGBT club and a twitter page of the College based on LGBT rights so when I joined I presumed that they'd be some sort of GSA set up, but so far I've found it doesn't seem to be a physical thing. Maybe I'm missing something here? Maybe it's just a twitter page? Do these members meet up? Can anyone join this twitter page? How come they seem to have events? Where are these events? Is there an age requirement? Do you have to look into the school council and email them to join? Gah, it's so confusing. So at this point I've pretty much given up trying to understand it. Maybe it's just a page the leaflet was advertising? I don't want to ask in class because I know I'd probably get laughed at if I asked such a thing, especially if the club doesn't even exist. Did it help the School environment overall for you? No, I'm not even sure if it's real.
My school has one, but I think it' quite small and not very popular I'm actually trying to go to one of their meetings for the first time on monday, I've really wanted to meet more people kinda like me in real life
They're not really common here. I think they're a good idea, especially in schools with a strong homophobic presence. I don't think it'd be necessary at my school and I'd think of it largely as a waste of time; I don't really think it could do much more. With any group, all you need to do is remember to have a specific set of long-term and short-term goals so it doesn't turn into an insular club for socialising, which I believe GSAs have a bit of a reputation for.
No. At least not in middle school, I think there's one in high school. (At least there used to be) My English teacher mentioned starting a GSA-like thing this year back at the end of September but she hasn't mentioned it again. I wish she would start it though I want to join
My school has a GSA, but I'm too scared to join, even though I have some friends in it. People would probably be confused if I joined, since everyone thinks I'm straight. The GSA at my school seems quite large though; I walked by it yesterday just too see what it was like, and everyone seemed to be socializing and sitting on desks.
There's nothing really interesting at my school GSA. I'm from Las Vegas which is a pretty liberal place, and as a result, no one comes to the schools GSA. There's like no good use for them at my school.
