Inspiring and empowering LGBT youth by connecting them with successful LGBT professionals in their community.
(From Live Out Loud)
Goal: Members will establish community amongst their club and further develop their individual levels of LGBTQ+ cultural awareness.
Objective: The objective of this session is for club members to either compare and contrast LGBTQ+ representation via different holiday films or test their LGBTQ+ knowledge via a queerified version of the gameshow Family Feud.
(From Live Out Loud)
Goal: Members will analyze how their voices can be harnessed to cultivate community change by observing how LGBTQ+ cultural influencers utilize their platforms for social good.
Objective: Members will create actual or theoretical content for a GSA social media account. If social media is not an option for the GSA, then members will create posters and/or bulletin boards to amplify their group’s ethos and voice.
(From Live Out Loud)
Goal: Members will enrich their LGBTQ+ cultural awareness and cultivate club community via a group discussion of Heartstopper, a beloved LGBTQ+ young adult graphic novel.
Objective: Members will analyze the LGBTQ+ storytelling and representation present in Heartstopper by reading excerpts from the graphic novel and/or watching clips from the Netflix series adaptation.
(From Live Out Loud)
Goal: Students will generate achievable goals to guide their GSA Club actions and activities during an upcoming school year.
Objective: Students will work together to create a vision board that highlights the club’s yearly goal/s. This artifact can then be displayed in the club’s meeting space to help promote continued efforts to achieve those goal/s.
(From Live Out Loud)
Goal: Club members will enrich their LGBTQ+ cultural awareness as well as cultivate community by learning about how food connects all of us.
Objective: Club members will be given the choice to either analyze LGBTQ+ Chef’s contributions to the LGBTQ+ community or create recipes of their own to dismantle homophobia and transphobia.
(From HRC)
It is important to make distinctions between instances where “kids are being kids” and when they’re asserting things about themselves that are critical to their identity and development — as is the case with gender identity and expression. Read this article from HRC.
(From Gender Spectrum)
These FAQs are specific to youth delve into questioning one’s gender, other social identities & their affect on gender, talking about gender w/ family, dysphoria, & more!
(From Eric Marcus)
The Making Gay History podcast mines Eric Marcus’s decades-old audio archive of rare interviews — conducted for his award-winning oral history of the LGBTQ civil rights movement — to create intimate, personal portraits of both known and long-forgotten champions, heroes, and witnesses to history.
(From National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center)
This organization has incredible resources surrounding health and wellbeing, be it physical health or mental health. Information regarding LGBTQ+ youth, individuals w/ HIV/AIDS, COVID info, etc..
(From Gender Spectrum)
A resource hub for youth, parents, educators, and more that allows you to select the category you’d like to explore – vast information on gender.