thatshowyousmile asked: Hope that helps some! :)

KATIE YOU ARE AMAZING AND DESERVE A MEDAL FOR THIS. This DEFINITELY helped, and we’ll be sure to take all of these into consideration for our future meetings! Thank you so much!!

3:16 am  •  30 January 2012  •  2 notes

thatshowyousmile asked: 3.) This is what I like to call "extras." a. Informing us of people out there in different countries who have faced similar problems so that it's not just America. For example, I think Japan have a big population of gay people (although I can't say this for sure), but they still seem to be conservative about it. b. Informing us about laws affecting the LGBT community and states/countries that are homophobic and how they have rallied against the gay community (eg. no gay marriage laws).

3:16 am  •  30 January 2012  •  1 note

thatshowyousmile asked: Some suggestions I thought up of over the weekends. 1.) Show pictures or clips (ex. commercials) and explain how they are/may be offensive to the LGBT people. 2.) Powerpoints of stories about LGBT people. Could be about how some committed suicide due to bullying or how some dealt with their situation after coming out (if they're Catholics, for example). I have one more but it seems I'm running out of space so I'll do another Ask.

3:16 am  •  30 January 2012  •  1 note

To wrap up No Name Calling Week, we’ll be having another meeting in Mr. Azcona’s room, room 225 tomorrow at lunch!

Please come, ready to talk!

1:55 am  •  27 January 2012  •  1 note

Hello GSA members! Sorry for the confusion about last week, when we skipped a meeting. There was just a lot that was happening, but don’t worry! We’re ready for you guys this week!

If you’ve been checking the dates link on our sidebar, you might’ve noticed that next week is No Name Calling Week. To prepare for that, we’re going to have a PowerPoint this week discussing slurs and derogatory terms! You can see a preview of what will be discussed by reading (or skimming; it’s a pretty long post) our last post.

So come ready to listen and ready to participate. As always, feel free to ask any questions if you have any!

Remember, room 225 on Friday 1/20 at lunch!

Thank you!

5:09 am  •  18 January 2012  •  16 notes

Preview of the next few meetings, in which Kim and Johnson discuss many things!

kimaginarybuddy (12:13:25 AM): and we’ll talk about the history of such words
kimaginarybuddy (12:13:27 AM): why they hurt
kimaginarybuddy (12:13:35 AM): the process of reclaiming
kimaginarybuddy (12:13:36 AM): etc
kimaginarybuddy (12:13:43 AM): yes?

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5:04 am  •  18 January 2012  •  13 notes

stfuconservatives:

unknowablewoman:

mikroblogolas:

This topic has been discussed to death, and yet it continually comes up in tumblr discussion. So let me establish once and for all (I swear, I will never discuss this again) that “bisexual” is not an oppressive identity.

Bisexual is not binarist.

…

This is LONG but worth the read.

-Jess

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4:42 am  •  18 January 2012  •  898 notes

kimproving:

Jenn and I have decided to enter the Sweetheart contest at school, which is a video contest. Winners get two free tickets to Winter Formal! which would be great, but mostly it’d be great just to get people to acknowledge that hey, gay and lesbian couples are here and hey they aren’t stupid they are couples too

So I’m working on the script but I don’t really know where to go with it. One thing i do know is that she’ll be speaking French and I’ll be speaking Spanish throughout the film. Think indie foreign film in which girl meets girl and girls do not speak the same language and are interested but have no idea how to express that what with language barrier! We’ll probably have a scene in which either she or I will be studying the other’s language at a table, frustrated but determined.

If anyone has any ideas or wants to help at all, please, please do!! It would be ginormously appreciated!!

Reblogging this here because this is a signal boost for LQ’s LGBTQQIA comm!!

7:15 pm  •  4 January 2012  •  8 notes

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2:26 am  •  28 November 2011  •  642 notes

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2:25 am  •  28 November 2011  •  814 notes

rappinpicard:

loveincolororg:

20th of November is International Transgender Day of Remembrance.

International Transgender Day of Remembrance is a day to remember those who have lost their lives to transphobia. In the first nine months of 2011 there were 116 reported killings of trans people around the world. In Scotland, research shows that 62 percent of transgender people have faced transphobic harassment from strangers and that trans people are 7.7 times more likely to commit suicide than the rest of the population due to the prejudice they experience. 

 solidarity for my brothers and sisters out there.

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1:32 am  •  21 November 2011  •  4,151 notes

This Novemember 20th is Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day set aside to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hate and prejudice. The event is held in November to honor Rita Hester, whose murder on November 28th, 1998 kicked off the “Remembering Our Dead” web project and a San Francisco candlelight vigil in 1999. Rita Hester’s murder — like most anti-transgender murder cases — has yet to be solved.

The Transgender Day of Remembrance serves several purposes. It raises public awareness of hate crimes against transgender people, an action that current media doesn’t perform. Day of Remembrance publicly mourns and honors the lives of our brothers and sisters who might otherwise be forgotten. Through the vigil, we express love and respect for our people in the face of national indifference and hatred. Day of Remembrance reminds non-transgender people that we are their sons, daughters, parents, friends and lovers. Day of Remembrance gives our allies a chance to step forward with us and stand in vigil, memorializing those of us who’ve died by anti-transgender violence. [tdor.org]

I urge my followers, and the followers of those who may have reblogged this to tint your icon purple on Novemeber 20th in honor and support to those who are transgender and to pay respects to those who have passed because they were simply being who they are. I think too often the T is thought of separate from the LGBT, but in reality we are all equal and we are in this life together, side by side.

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1:32 am  •  21 November 2011  •  9,068 notes

Thank you to all of you who showed up to our turkey lunch! We hope you enjoyed the food and learned something about the differences between gender and sex.

When we come back, our first meeting (date to be announced; listen to the announcements or email one of us or just ask here!) will be on the spectrum of sexual orientation. Be ready for it!

Have a wonderful break! Be safe and eat well! We’ll see you in a few weeks. And as always, feel free to leave us asks here. We’ll try our best to answer them.

Also: question. Would it be helpful if we posted notes of the presentations and/or the presentations themselves here?

5:53 am  •  18 November 2011  •  3 notes

lgbtlaughs:

[1: woman holding a sign: “I didn’t ask her for a civil union” 2: sign: “I dream of a white wedding not a civil partnership”]

starshone-storm:

LegaliseLove March for Equality; Wellington, New Zealand; October 20th 2011

1:47 pm  •  22 October 2011  •  394 notes

thatshowyousmile asked: Sighhhh, there be CSF meeting on Thursday too :(

Worry not my dear! Officers talked it over and decided to move it to FRIDAY. Just for our dear, dear members. :)

10:30 am  •  18 October 2011  •  1 note