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

As of 2018,[replace] there are 39 GLSEN chapters across 26 states that practice 5,000 college students, educators, and school personnel annually.[1][higher source needed] The chapters also assist more than 4,000 registered school-primarily based clubs-commonly generally known as gay-straight alliances (GSAs)--which work to handle title-calling, bullying, and harassment in their colleges. GLSEN also sponsors and participates in a bunch of annual "Days of Action", including a No Name-Calling Week each January, a Day of Silence every April, and an Ally Week each September. Guided by research comparable to its National School Climate Survey, GLSEN has developed resources, lesson plans, classroom supplies, and professional improvement programs for teachers on how you can support LGBTQ students.[2][better supply needed]

Research shows that in response to bullying and mistreatment, many LGBTQ college students avoid college altogether; this could result in educational failure.[3] To combat this problem, GLSEN has advocated for LGBTQ-inclusive anti-bullying laws and insurance policies. GLSEN has additionally labored with the U.S. Departments of Education, Justice, and Health and Human Services to create mannequin policies that help LGBTQ college students and educators. GLSEN has thought of their signature laws 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 history teacher in Massachusetts, and Kathy Henderson, Assistant Athletic Director at Phillips Academy, Andover leads a coalition of gay and lesbian educators to kind what was then referred to 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 national group with the founding of the primary chapter[1] exterior Massachusetts in St. Louis.- GLSTN launches the first 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 began annual celebration of Day of Silence.
1997[edit]

- GLSTN staged its first nationwide conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, in response to the legislature's effort to prevent the formation of GSAs in the state by banning all pupil teams.- GLSTN changed its title to GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network) as a way to extra replicate the importance of straight educators in shaping secure faculties.- Kevin Jennings meets with President Bill Clinton on the White House to debate anti-LGBT bias in America's faculties-the first assembly of its sort within the Executive Office of the United States.
1998[edit]

Out of the Past, a GLSEN-sponsored documentary developed as a useful resource for highschool historical past lessons, wins the Audience Award on the Sundance Film Festival and is broadcast nationally on PBS. Eliza Byard, the film'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 research frequently documenting the experiences of LGBT youth in schools. The survey is performed and revealed biennially.- GLSEN, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and a coalition of nationwide training, psychological health, and religious organizations release Just the Facts about Sexual Orientation and Youth: A Primer for Principals, Educators and school Personnel,[4] which provides authoritative statements about how "conversion therapy" is dangerous to youth. Sixteen years later, President Barack Obama would call for an end to the practice.[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 primary nationwide sponsor of the Day of Silence. Participation grows from a whole lot of faculty students to 1000's of center and high school youth.
2002[edit]

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

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

- GLSEN's No Name-Calling Week launches as an annual week of educational activities aimed toward ending identify-calling of every kind.- Vermont becomes the first state to pass an LGBT-inclusive anti-bullying regulation that features protections on the premise of sexual orientation and gender identification/expression.
2005[edit]

- GLSEN and Harris Interactive launch From Teasing to Torment: School Climate in America, A Survey of students and Teachers,[8] the primary nationwide examine of the general population of secondary students and teachers to address LGBT points. This study documents disparities between LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ college students and finds that LGBT college students have been greater than thrice as likely to not really feel safe at school.- GLSEN's Jump-Start National Student Leadership Team develops an concept 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 promoting company's first LGBT-targeted marketing campaign.
2007[edit]

- GLSEN helps develop the 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 take part.- Lance Bass films a public service announcement in the GLSEN office that is seen more than 300,000 times 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-12 months-outdated Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover takes his life after enduring anti-gay bullying in school. His mother, Sirdeaner Walker, becomes 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 group's first report that focuses particularly on the experiences of transgender students. The examine finds that transgender youth face much larger levels of harassment and violence than LGB cisgender college students, and as a result, miss extra faculty, receive lower grades and feel extra isolated from their college neighborhood.- GLSEN releases Shared Differences: The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Students of Color in our Nation's Schools.[11] The research focuses particularly on the school experiences of LGBTQ students of shade and supplies perception into the methods wherein LGBTQ college students' college experiences differ primarily based on race or ethnicity. The report finds that the majority of LGBTQ college students of shade faced both LGBTQ-based mostly harassment and race-based mostly harassment at college.
2010s[edit]

2010[edit]

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

- GLSEN's Executive Director Eliza Byard participates in the primary-ever United Nations international session to address anti-LGBT bullying in colleges.- Several representatives from GLSEN attend the White House Conference on Bullying Prevention, pressing for effective federal action to deal with bullying, and highlighting bullying prevention applications and approaches that benefit all college students.- The White House names GLSEN a "Champion of Change",[13] honoring the group's two many years of work to struggle bullying, violence, and stigma directed at LGBTQ people in K-12 schools and for GLSEN's efforts to forestall suicide amongst at-danger youth.- GLSEN, the Anti-Defamation League, and National Public Radio's StoryCorps launch "Unheard Voices", an oral history and curriculum venture that will help educators combine LGBTQ history, individuals and points into their instructional applications.
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 schools in rural areas. Findings display that in comparison with LGBTQ students in urban and suburban areas, LGBTQ college students in rural colleges are extra probably to hear damaging feedback about gender expression and sexual orientation; feel unsafe at their faculties due to their sexual orientation, gender identification, or gender expression, and experience verbal and physical harassment and assault due to those traits.- A GuideStar/Philanthropedia survey of 110 experts on LGBTQ points names GLSEN one of many country's high three LGBTQ nonprofits making important contributions on a national level.- GLSEN partners with the main faculty mental well being professional 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 nationwide examine of school mental health professionals on their preparation and practices related to LGBTQ youth in faculties.
2013[edit]

- GLSEN convenes first-ever research symposia on LGBTQ students' experiences and homophobic and transphobic bullying internationally on the World Comparative Education Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina - with more than 15 countries, 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 resources and reduce homophobic and transphobic prejudice and violence in colleges globally.- GLSEN publishes Out Online: The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth,[15] the primary national report back to look at the net expertise of LGBTQ youth. While LGBTQ youth expertise practically thrice as much bullying and harassment on-line, they also find larger peer help, access to health information, and alternatives to be civically engaged.- Transgender Student Rights, a youth-created grassroots group, 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 event on the Lincoln Memorial, the place Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I've a Dream" speech in 1963. Fellow speakers embrace Presidents Obama, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter. GLSEN is the only consultant from an LGBTQ group to speak at the occasion.
2014[edit]

- GLSEN partners with the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and the Association of Teacher Educators to analysis and support the inclusion of LGBTQ issues in teacher preparation.- The Office for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education issues official steerage making clear that transgender college students are protected from discrimination underneath Title IX, stating that "Title IX's sex discrimination prohibition extends to claims of discrimination based on gender identification or failure to conform to stereotypical notions of masculinity or femininity."- The GLSEN National School Climate Survey finds that faculty climate for LGBTQ students has improved considerably over the years, yet stays quite hostile for many. LGBTQ college students in the survey experienced lower verbal and bodily harassment based mostly on sexual orientation than in all prior years, and the lowest bodily assault based on sexual orientation since 2007.- The Safe Schools Improvement Act,[7] federal laws that might require faculties to undertake LGBTQ-inclusive anti-bullying policies, garners its highest assist but, with 208 bipartisan co-sponsors in the U.S. House of Representatives and 46 in the U.S. Senate.
2015[edit]

- GLSEN's No Name-Calling Week generates almost 1,000,000 impressions of #celebratekindness on Twitter.- GLSEN and Chilean associate group Todo Mejora launch a Spanish-language version of the GLSEN Safe Space Kit to be used in Chilean schools.
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 in which students vow to take a form of silence to name consideration to the silencing effect of anti-LGBTQ bullying and harassment in colleges. GLSEN's Day of Silence takes place in 8,000 U.S. schools yearly and has spread to greater than 60 countries.

GLSEN's No Name-Calling Week[edit]

Every January, hundreds of elementary and center schools 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 author James Howe, and is supported by over 60 nationwide accomplice organizations.

GLSEN's Ally Week[edit]

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

Think Before You Speak marketing campaign[edit]

On October 8, 2008, GLSEN and Ad Council launched the Think Before You Speak marketing campaign, designed to end homophobic vocabulary and increase awareness concerning the prevalence and consequences of anti-LGBTQ bias and behavior in America's schools among youth, via the use of television, radio, print, and out of doors ads.[17][18] The marketing campaign additionally aimed to lift consciousness amongst adults, college personnel, and dad and mom. It consists of three tv public service announcements (PSAs), six print PSAs and three radio PSAs. Television commercials for the campaign include singer Hilary Duff in addition to comic Wanda Sykes. In 2008 the campaign gained 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 training since 1999. GLSEN turned the one organization to frequently document the varsity experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) middle and high school students within the U.S. using GLSEN's National School Climate Survey. Other analysis reviews GLSEN has put out embody 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, as well as many other stories, articles, and e book chapters.[19]

GLSEN National Student Council[edit]

The GLSEN National Student Council, formerly recognized because the Student Ambassadors program, is certainly one of GLSEN's scholar management teams.[20] Annually, GLSEN selects a small group of center and highschool college students to function GLSEN youth representatives for the upcoming school year. Students of the National Student Council advise GLSEN on campaigns, carry GLSEN resources to their faculties, symbolize GLSEN within the media, and have their own work printed in native and nationwide retailers.

GLSEN Chapters[edit]

GLSEN Chapters, with the help and steerage of the nationwide workplace, work to carry GLSEN applications to their specific communities on a local level. Chapter board members and volunteers are students, educators, mother and father and neighborhood members who volunteer their time to support college students and Gay-Straight Alliances, train educators and supply opportunities for everyone to make change of their local schools. GLSEN has 38 volunteer-led GLSEN Chapters in 26 states that work with scholar leaders, provide skilled development for educators, and encourage policymakers to enact LGBTQ-inclusive insurance policies.[1]

GLSEN Respect Awards[edit]

GLSEN organizes the annual GLSEN Respect Awards to honor leaders, personalities, and organizations who have made significant 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 pupil Marina Gatto. Since then, the Respect Awards are held annually 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 chief of the conservative Parents' Rights Coalition of Massachusetts (now often called MassResistance) secretly taped one of many 50 workshops in "Teachout 2000", titled "What They Didn't Inform you About Queer Sex and Sexuality in Health Class: Workshop for Youth Only, Ages 14-21".[23] Students discussed sex in a workshop "billed as a secure place for youths to get their questions about their sexuality answered" in the session's Q&A section. A query was requested about fisting a minor and a proof was offered.[24] Greg Carmack subsequently instructed that the question might have been planted by these making the recordings.[25] MassResistance dubbed the incident "Fistgate"[23][26] and the tapes generated controversy after they were broadcast over radio.[27] A state worker who participated in the dialogue and was subsequently dismissed filed suit against Camenker and Scott Whiteman because of the distribution of the tape recordings,[28] whereas others pointed out the legal prohibition against recording individuals without their data or permission.[27] In response to Bay Windows, a "Massachusetts Superior Court decide dominated that the tape was illegally acquired and due to this fact an invasion of privacy towards these people present, who have been by no means told they were being recorded."[29]

See additionally[edit]

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References[edit]

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