Utah QSA Network

06/06/2014

Okay - QSA Clubs and Members Here is our Pride Parade Plan, each region will have a different color T-shirt assigned to demonstrate a rainbow of student pride for QSA clubs. We will all march together with the Pride Center Programs during the annual pride parade. If your school/club is:
- In Northern Utah - wear Orange
- In Salt Lake City - wear Red
- In Park City/Summit - wear Blue
- In Utah County - wear Yellow
- South of Utah County - wear Purple

We will be marching at the end of the line up - right before the giant rainbow flag. Contact us if you have questions.

06/04/2014

QSA Youth - come meet and welcome Dayne Law our new Trans* and Youth Program Specialist! Dayne started last week and joins the staff during our Pride prep Madness! We will be making posters tonight for the Pride Parade. Calling all QSA youth to join us for the March and our Summer Fun.... join us tonight to find out more!

06/02/2014

Okay - QSA Clubs and Members Here is our Pride Parade Plan, each region will have a different color T-shirt assigned to demonstrate a rainbow of student pride for QSA clubs. We will all march together with the Pride Center Programs during the annual pride parade. If your school/club is:
- In Northern Utah - wear Orange
- In Salt Lake City - wear Red
- In Park City/Summit - wear Blue
- In Utah County - wear Yellow
- South of Utah County - wear Purple

We will be marching at the end of the line up - right before the giant rainbow flag. Contact us if you have questions.

05/29/2014

Poster Party for Pride Parade - Next Wednesday during youth drop in hours at the YAC. It's a great time to see the line up of workshops that we are doing this summer for youth who want to develop their leadership. Q***r Activist Camp is gonna be AMAZEBALLS!!!

Stay tuned for your Regional T-shirt colors for the Pride Parade to show our QSA strength.

05/07/2014

Strategy Session for QSA this Thursday at our monthly meeting. 5:30 at Utah Pride Center! We need you here, your energy and your great ideas!

04/30/2014

Let's Congratulate and Help Support the Park City GSA - they are being recognized by GLSEN as the GSA of the Year at the annual Respect Awards in NY. Help get key club leaders to the event!
http://www.gofundme.com/glsenpcgsafund

The Park City GSA has been honored to recieve the National GSA of the Year Award and will be travelling to NYC to attend GLSEN's Respect Awards. We will be giving a speech to accept the award and working with GLSEN to point out some issues facing conservative states. To get there though, we need...

04/29/2014

Best News Ever for trans* and gender fluid students in the country. FINALLY!!!

http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/04/dept-of-ed-title-ix-prohibits-discrimination-against-transgender-students/

WASHINGTON -- The U.S Department of Education on Tuesday issued guidance clarifying that Title IX, the federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of s*x in schools that receive federal funding, prohibits discrimination against transgender students.

04/25/2014

http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/blog-17623-10675-annual-queer-prom-fosters-safe-alternative-for-uta.html

I didnt go to my senior prom. After a long, awkward night at my junior prom feeling remorseful about my appearance--a Cinderella-blue sequin dress designed to help me fit in--I decided to write off s

04/22/2014

On Thursday, Mario is going to the White House to demand justice for our immigrant GSA members. Stand with him: http://unite.gsanetwork.org/p/yordy

Yordy Cancino is a leader who worked to transform his high school and his city of Los Angeles as the Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) club President at Animo Jackie Robinson High School. A GSA Network alum from the class of 2011, Yordy has lived in California since he was a child and gone to school here…

04/17/2014

What do you all think?
http://www.ted.com/talks/io_tillett_wright_fifty_shades_of_gay?utm_campaign=&utm_source=l.facebook.com&utm_content=roadrunner-rrshorturl&utm_medium=on.ted.com-none&awesm=on.ted.com_i0AzN&share=112d3abb67

Artist iO Tillett Wright has photographed 2,000 people who consider themselves somewhere on the LGBTQ spectrum and asked many of them: Can you assign a percentage to how gay or straight you are? Most people, it turns out, consider themselves to exist in the gray areas of s*xuality, not 100% gay or s…

04/11/2014

Student Resources: Know your Rights – Day of Silence


Thanks again for having me on the National Association call on Tuesday to talk about GLSEN's Day of Silence and answer questions. Below are links to the most important resources I mentioned on the call as well as contact info for me and for Ikaika Regidor, Youth Programs Associate, who oversees our work on the DOS. I've included full links rather than just hyperlinks in case forwarding disables the hyperlinks.

1) Why Silence? As I mentioned, we're anchoring the Day of Silence in the long history of silence as a powerful organizing tool.

2) Legal issues: The ACLU has drafted a letter to school administrators (here: https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/day_of_silence_2014_letter_0.pdf). Lambda Legal has updated their Day of Silence FAQ (here: http://www.lambdalegal.org/sites/default/files/publications/downloads/fs_2014_day-of-silence-faq.pdf) and Lambda Legal is also standing by to assist anyone facing pushback who reports it here: http://www.dayofsilence.org/legalhelp/.

3) If any of the National Association members would like to become endorsers of the Day of Silence, they can do so here: http://glsen.org/participate/programs/endorser

Contact information:
Martha Langmuir, Director of Field Services, [email protected], 646.388.6598
Ikaika Regidor, Youth Programs Associate, [email protected], 646.388.6569

We'll be here all day tomorrow answering questions via email, phone, facebook and twitter and doing all we can to support the hundreds of thousands of students participating in and learning about the Day of Silence across the country.

04/11/2014

Happy Day of Silence to all LGBTQ students and allies! Here is a resource from GLSEN and National GSA Network.