GLSEN (Pronounced Glisten; formerly The Gay

GLSEN (pronounced glisten; formerly the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network) is an American training group working to end discrimination, harassment, and bullying primarily based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression and to immediate LGBT cultural inclusion and consciousness in K-12 schools. Founded in 1990 in Boston, Massachusetts, the group is now headquartered in New York City and has an office of public policy primarily based in Washington, D.C.

As of 2018,[replace] there are 39 GLSEN chapters across 26 states that practice 5,000 students, educators, and faculty personnel each year.[1][better supply needed] The chapters also help greater than 4,000 registered college-based clubs-commonly known as gay-straight alliances (GSAs)--which work to handle identify-calling, bullying, and harassment in their faculties. GLSEN also sponsors and participates in a bunch of annual "Days of Action", together with a No Name-Calling Week every January, a Day of Silence every April, and an Ally Week every September. Guided by research corresponding to its National School Climate Survey, GLSEN has developed sources, lesson plans, classroom materials, and skilled improvement applications for teachers on find out how to assist LGBTQ students.[2][higher source needed]

Research exhibits that in response to bullying and mistreatment, many LGBTQ students avoid school altogether; this may lead to educational failure.[3] To fight this problem, GLSEN has advocated for LGBTQ-inclusive anti-bullying legal guidelines and policies. GLSEN has also worked with the U.S. Departments of Education, Justice, and Health and Human Services to create mannequin policies that assist LGBTQ college students and educators. GLSEN has thought of their signature legislation to be the Safe Schools Improvement Act and has been honored by the White House as a "Champion of Change".

History[edit]

1990s[edit]

1990[edit]

Kevin Jennings, a highschool historical past teacher in Massachusetts, and Kathy Henderson, Assistant Athletic Director at Phillips Academy, Andover leads a coalition of gay and lesbian educators to type what was then known as the Gay and Lesbian Independent School Teacher Network (GLISTN).
1993[edit]

- In Massachusetts, the Governor's Commission released its report, Making Schools Safe for Gay and Lesbian Youth.
1994[edit]

- GLSTN grew to become a nationwide organization with the founding of the primary chapter[1] outdoors Massachusetts in St. Louis.- GLSTN launches the primary LGBT History Month in October with official proclamations from the governors of Connecticut and Massachusetts.
1995[edit]

- GLSTN employed its first full-time staffer, founder and Executive Director Kevin Jennings.- GLSTN accredits chapters for the first time.[1]
1996[edit]

- GLSTN started annual celebration of Day of Silence.
1997[edit]

- GLSTN staged its first nationwide convention in Salt Lake City, Utah, in response to the legislature's effort to stop the formation of GSAs within the state by banning all pupil groups.- GLSTN changed its identify to GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network) as a way to extra reflect the importance of straight educators in shaping safe schools.- Kevin Jennings meets with President Bill Clinton at the White House to debate anti-LGBT bias in America's schools-the primary meeting of its type in the Executive Office of the United States.
1998[edit]

Out of the Past, a GLSEN-sponsored documentary developed as a resource for high school historical past classes, wins the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and is broadcast nationally on PBS. Eliza Byard, the movie's co-producer, would turn out to be GLSEN's Deputy Executive Director in 2001.
1999[edit]

- GLSEN conducts the National School Climate Survey-the primary and solely nationwide study commonly documenting the experiences of LGBT youth in faculties. The survey is carried out and revealed biennially.- GLSEN, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and a coalition of national training, mental well being, and religious organizations release Just the Facts about Sexual Orientation and Youth: A Primer for Principals, Educators and school Personnel,[4] which gives authoritative statements about how "conversion therapy" is dangerous to youth. Sixteen years later, President Barack Obama would call for an end to the observe.[5]
2000s[edit]

2000[edit]

- The Chicago chapter of GLSEN was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame.[6]
2001[edit]

- Students ask GLSEN to change into the first nationwide sponsor of the Day of Silence. Participation grows from a whole lot of faculty college students to thousands of center and high school youth.
2002[edit]

- GLSEN begins a partnership with the National Education Association, which asks college districts to guard LGBTQ college students and staff by adopting policies that protect college students from bullying and harassment on the premise of sexual orientation and gender identification/expression.
2003[edit]

- U.S. Representative Linda Sánchez introduces the Safe Schools Improvement Act,[7] an LGBT-inclusive federal anti-bullying invoice that includes protections for sexual orientation and gender id/expression.
2004[edit]

- GLSEN's No Name-Calling Week launches as an annual week of academic actions aimed toward ending name-calling of all types.- Vermont turns into the primary state to pass an LGBT-inclusive anti-bullying law that includes protections on the idea of sexual orientation and gender identification/expression.
2005[edit]

- GLSEN and Harris Interactive release From Teasing to Torment: School Climate in America, A Survey of students and Teachers,[8] the primary national examine of the final inhabitants of secondary students and teachers to deal with LGBT points. This research paperwork disparities between LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ students and finds that LGBT students have been greater than 3 times as more likely to not feel protected at college.- GLSEN's Jump-Start National Student Leadership Team develops an idea that turns into the primary Ally Week that's now in schools nationwide every October.
2006[edit]

- GLSEN launches the "Think Before You Speak" public service announcement initiative with the Ad Council, the nonprofit advertising company's first LGBT-targeted marketing campaign.
2007[edit]

- GLSEN helps develop the brand new York City Department of Education's "Respect for All" initiative.
2008[edit]

Lawrence King is murdered by his eighth-grade classmate at E.O. Green Junior High in Oxnard, California. GLSEN's Day of Silence is held in Larry's honor as students from greater than 8,000 faculties participate.- Lance Bass films a public service announcement in the GLSEN office that's viewed greater than 300,000 occasions on YouTube.- GLSEN releases, The Principal's Perspective: School Safety, Bullying and Harassment,[9] a report carried out in collaboration with the National Association of Secondary School Principals.
2009[edit]

- Eleven-year-old Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover takes his life after enduring anti-gay bullying in school. His mother, Sirdeaner Walker, turns into a GLSEN spokesperson and later joins GLSEN's National Board of Directors.- GLSEN releases Harsh Realities: The Experiences of Transgender Youth in Our Nation's Schools,[10] the organization's first report that focuses particularly on the experiences of transgender college students. The research finds that transgender youth face a lot increased ranges of harassment and violence than LGB cisgender students, and as a result, miss more school, obtain decrease grades and really feel more remoted from their faculty group.- GLSEN releases Shared Differences: The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Students of Color in our Nation's Schools.[11] The study focuses particularly on the varsity experiences of LGBTQ college students of shade and gives perception into the methods in which LGBTQ college students' faculty experiences differ primarily based on race or ethnicity. The report finds that the vast majority of LGBTQ students of colour faced each LGBTQ-based harassment and race-primarily based harassment at college.
2010s[edit]

2010[edit]

- GLSEN formally launches the Safe Space Campaign,[12] designed to give educators the tools to be visibly supportive allies to LGBTQ college students. The campaign goes on to position a Safe Space Kit in each faculty within the United States.[quotation wanted]
2011[edit]

- GLSEN's Executive Director Eliza Byard participates in the first-ever United Nations worldwide session to deal with anti-LGBT bullying in schools.- Several representatives from GLSEN attend the White House Conference on Bullying Prevention, urgent for efficient federal motion to handle bullying, and highlighting bullying prevention packages and approaches that profit all college students.- The White House names GLSEN a "Champion of Change",[13] honoring the group's two a long time of labor to fight bullying, violence, and stigma directed at LGBTQ folks in K-12 colleges and for GLSEN's efforts to stop suicide amongst at-danger youth.- GLSEN, the Anti-Defamation League, and National Public Radio's StoryCorps launch "Unheard Voices", an oral historical past and curriculum mission that can assist educators combine LGBTQ historical past, individuals and points into their instructional packages.
2012[edit]

- GLSEN releases Strengths and Silences: The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Students in Rural and Small Town Schools.[14] The report paperwork the experiences of greater than 2,300 LGBTQ college students who attend secondary faculties in rural areas. Findings show that compared to LGBTQ students in city and suburban areas, LGBTQ students in rural colleges are extra seemingly to listen to adverse comments about gender expression and sexual orientation; really feel unsafe at their colleges attributable to their sexual orientation, gender identification, or gender expression, and experience verbal and bodily harassment and assault due to these traits.- A GuideStar/Philanthropedia survey of one hundred ten specialists on LGBTQ points names GLSEN one of many country's prime three LGBTQ nonprofits making significant contributions on a nationwide degree.- GLSEN companions with the leading college mental health skilled associations, the National Association of School Psychologists, the American School Counselors Association, the varsity Social Workers Association of America, and the American Council for School Social Workers, to conduct a national research of faculty psychological health professionals on their preparation and practices associated to LGBTQ youth in colleges.
2013[edit]

- GLSEN convenes first-ever analysis symposia on LGBTQ college students' experiences and homophobic and transphobic bullying internationally on the World Comparative Education Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina - with greater than 15 international locations, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Cyprus, Israel, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Poland, Slovenia, South Africa, and Turkey. GLSEN, in partnership with UNESCO, also coordinates an all-day strategic planning assembly with the global group of consultants to coordinate collective assets and reduce homophobic and transphobic prejudice and violence in schools globally.- GLSEN publishes Out Online: The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth,[15] the first nationwide report back to examine the net experience of LGBTQ youth. While LGBTQ youth expertise almost thrice as much bullying and harassment on-line, they also discover better peer help, access to well being data, and alternatives to be civically engaged.- Transgender Student Rights, a youth-created grassroots organization, turns into a GLSEN program.- By youth nomination, GLSEN Executive Director Dr. Eliza Byard speaks on the Let Freedom Ring Commemoration and Call to Action occasion on the Lincoln Memorial, the place Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his well-known "I've a Dream" speech in 1963. Fellow audio system embody Presidents Obama, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter. GLSEN is the only consultant from an LGBTQ organization to talk on the event.
2014[edit]

- GLSEN companions with the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and the Association of Teacher Educators to research and support the inclusion of LGBTQ issues in instructor preparation.- The Office for Civil Rights within the U.S. Department of Education issues official steering making clear that transgender college students are protected from discrimination under Title IX, stating that "Title IX's sex discrimination prohibition extends to claims of discrimination primarily based on gender id or failure to conform to stereotypical notions of masculinity or femininity."- The GLSEN National School Climate Survey finds that college climate for LGBTQ students has improved considerably through the years, yet stays quite hostile for many. LGBTQ students in the survey experienced lower verbal and physical harassment based on sexual orientation than in all prior years, and the bottom physical assault based mostly on sexual orientation since 2007.- The Safe Schools Improvement Act,[7] federal laws that will require faculties to adopt LGBTQ-inclusive anti-bullying policies, garners its highest help yet, with 208 bipartisan co-sponsors within the U.S. House of Representatives and forty six within the U.S. Senate.
2015[edit]

- GLSEN's No Name-Calling Week generates practically 1,000,000 impressions of #celebratekindness on Twitter.- GLSEN and Chilean companion group Todo Mejora release a Spanish-language model of the GLSEN Safe Space Kit to be used in Chilean colleges.
2020s[edit]

2022[edit]

- GLSEN appoints Melanie Willingham-Jaggers as the group's first Black and non-binary government director.[16]
Campaigns and applications[edit]

GLSEN's Day of Silence[edit]

GLSEN's Day of Silence is a national day of action that started at the University of Virginia in 1996 during which students vow to take a form of silence to call attention to the silencing impact of anti-LGBTQ bullying and harassment in schools. GLSEN's Day of Silence takes place in 8,000 U.S. schools every year and has unfold to more than 60 countries.

GLSEN's No Name-Calling Week[edit]

Every January, hundreds of elementary and middle faculties participate in GLSEN's No Name-Calling Week to finish bullying. No Name-Calling Week was inspired by the popular younger adult novel entitled The Misfits by in style writer James Howe, and is supported by over 60 nationwide companion organizations.

GLSEN's Ally Week[edit]

Every fall, GLSEN's Ally Week serves to teach allies in regards to the function they play in creating safer areas for LGBTQ youth. Ally Week was started in 2005 by GLSEN's Jump-Start National Student Leadership team. Ally Week is supported by over 20 endorsers.

Think Before You Speak campaign[edit]

On October 8, 2008, GLSEN and Ad Council launched the Think Before You Speak campaign, designed to finish homophobic vocabulary and raise awareness in regards to the prevalence and penalties of anti-LGBTQ bias and behavior in America's faculties amongst youth, via the use of tv, radio, print, and outdoor advertisements.[17][18] The marketing campaign also aimed to raise consciousness amongst adults, college personnel, and parents. It consists of three tv public service bulletins (PSAs), six print PSAs and three radio PSAs. Television commercials for the marketing campaign embrace singer Hilary Duff as well as comic Wanda Sykes. In 2008 the marketing campaign received the Ad Council's Gold Bell award for "Best Public Service Advertising Campaign".

GLSEN Research[edit]

GLSEN has been conducting analysis and evaluation on LGBTQ issues in K-12 education since 1999. GLSEN grew to become the only organization to frequently document the varsity experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) middle and high school students in the U.S. utilizing GLSEN's National School Climate Survey. Other research reviews GLSEN has put out embrace From Statehouse to Schoolhouse: Anti-Bullying Policies in U.S. States and faculty Districts, Shared Differences: The Experiences of LGBTQ Students of Color in Our Nation's Schools, Harsh Realities: The Experiences of Transgender Youth in Our Nation's Schools, in addition to many other stories, articles, and guide chapters.[19]

GLSEN National Student Council[edit]

The GLSEN National Student Council, previously recognized as the Student Ambassadors program, is one in all GLSEN's pupil leadership teams.[20] Each year, GLSEN selects a small group of center and high school students to serve as GLSEN youth representatives for the upcoming college 12 months. Students of the National Student Council advise GLSEN on campaigns, carry GLSEN sources to their colleges, symbolize GLSEN within the media, and have their own work printed in local and nationwide outlets.

GLSEN Chapters[edit]

GLSEN Chapters, with the support and steering of the national workplace, work to deliver GLSEN programs to their particular communities on an area stage. Chapter board members and volunteers are students, educators, parents and group members who volunteer their time to support college students and Gay-Straight Alliances, prepare educators and provide opportunities for everyone to make change in their native schools. GLSEN has 38 volunteer-led GLSEN Chapters in 26 states that work with pupil leaders, provide professional improvement for educators, and encourage policymakers to enact LGBTQ-inclusive policies.[1]

GLSEN Respect Awards[edit]

GLSEN organizes the annual GLSEN Respect Awards to honor leaders, personalities, and organizations who have made important contributions to LGBTQ youth. Awards are given to organizations, celebrities, college students, educators and gay-straight alliances. Since 2004, there have been over 4 dozen honorees and over $15 million raised in all.[21][22] The primary Respect Awards have been in New York in 2004 and honored Andrew Tobias, writer and Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee; MTV; and scholar Marina Gatto. Since then, the Respect Awards are held yearly in New York in late May and in Los Angeles in late October. Since 2004, there have been over four-dozen honorees and over $17 million raised.

Fistgate controversy[edit]

In 2000, the leader of the conservative Parents' Rights Coalition of Massachusetts (now referred to as MassResistance) secretly taped one of many 50 workshops in "Teachout 2000", titled "What They Didn't Let you know About Queer Sex and Sexuality in Health Class: Workshop for Youth Only, Ages 14-21".[23] Students mentioned sex in a workshop "billed as a protected place for youths to get their questions on their sexuality answered" within the session's Q&A piece. A query was requested about fisting a minor and an evidence was offered.[24] Greg Carmack subsequently urged that the query may need been planted by these making the recordings.[25] MassResistance dubbed the incident "Fistgate"[23][26] and the tapes generated controversy when they have been broadcast over radio.[27] A state employee who participated in the discussion and was subsequently dismissed filed swimsuit in opposition to Camenker and Scott Whiteman as a result of the distribution of the tape recordings,[28] while others identified the legal prohibition against recording individuals without their knowledge or permission.[27] In accordance with Bay Windows, a "Massachusetts Superior Court choose dominated that the tape was illegally acquired and subsequently an invasion of privateness towards those people current, who were by no means instructed they were being recorded."[29]

See also[edit]

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References[edit]

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