Gay and straight alliance
A gay–straight alliance, gender–sexuality alliance (GSA) or queer–straight alliance (QSA) is a student-led or community-based organization, found in middle schools, high schools, colleges, and universities. These are primarily in the United States and Canada.
Contact Us Helpful Resources. The GSA network provides consultation, training, event funding, school visits, networking and more to people involved in a GSA, or those who want to start one. Due to Calgary Board of Education restrictions on outside organizations in schools, we are unable to facilitate workshops or visits to CBE schools.
We support LGBTQ+ youth organizers across the country to take action and create change at all levels, from school-based campaigns that impact individual school districts to national days of action that unite GSAs for racial and gender justice.
This blog has been updated here to reflect the most recent data and new analysis. In 45 states and the District of Columbia, less than half of all high schools report having a gay-straight alliance also known as a genders and sexualities alliance, or GSA , according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Among the 48 states as well as the District of Columbia that provide data, only three states New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts can claim that more than half of their high schools have a GSA.
A gay–straight alliance, gender–sexuality alliance (GSA) or queer–straight alliance (QSA) is a student-led or community-based organization, found in middle schools, high schools, colleges, and universities. These are primarily in the United States and Canada.
Skip to main content. This content is intended to serve as general information; it is not legal advice nor intended as legal advice. Genders and Sexualities Alliances formerly known as Gay-Straight Alliances , or GSAs, are student-led and student-organized school clubs that aim to create a safe, welcoming, and accepting school environment for all youth, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
Gay-Straight Alliances, or GSAs, are student-led and student-organized school clubs that aim to create a safe, welcoming, and accepting school environment for all youth, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
Find out if your school has other non-curricular clubs, such as Chess Club or Key Club. Your GSA will have to follow the same steps that those clubs took in order to form. Know Your Reasons — Every successful organization has a mission statement, which is simply a sentence or two that explain the purpose and goals of your group.