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 Despite opposition from largely Christian Right-Wing Groups, resources and protections for glbtq secondary school students have dramatically increased since the first glbtq student organizations emerged on university campuses in the late 1960s and early 1970s. |
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| The ACLU LGBT & AIDS Project has fought to compel high schools to protect glbtq students from harassment and discrimination, recognize gay-straight alliances on the same basis as other non-curricular clubs, and stop schools from censoring educational gay and lesbian websites. | ||
| Adolescence is a life stage during which young people ordinarily experience sexual uncertainty and confusion. This sexual uncertainty and concomitant emotional turmoil are compounded in glbtq adolescents by fears of being stigmatized and often by internalized homophobia. | ||
 Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) is New England's leading glbtq public-interest legal organization. The extraordinarily successful advocacy group has worked to protect glbtq students in schools and fought for the right of students to form glbtq student organizations. |
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| Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN) was founded in 1990 to create safe K-12 school environments for glbtq students. Its mission is to reform the American educational system in order to ensure that children accept and respect one another, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity and expression. | ||
| Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) are youth-led, school- or community-based groups designed to assist glbtq students, children from glbtq families, and heterosexual students who want to be allies of their glbtq peers. | ||
 Brent Hartinger (b. 1964) is a writer whose first novel, Geography Club (2003), was inspired by both his own teenage years and his experiences as a founder of Oasis, a gay teen support group with more than 200 members. |
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 Kevin Jennings (b. 1963) transformed his anger at bullying and gay bashing in schools into founding GLSEN, the first national organization to address the homophobia experienced by glbtq youth in schools. In May 2009, Jennings joined the Obama administration as Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education and Director of the Office of Safe & Drug-Free Schools. |
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 Lesléa Newman (b. 1955), author of the famously controversial children's book Heather has Two Mommies (1989), is a prolific writer of books for children, adolescents, and adults. Her young adult titles include Fat Chance (1994), about eating disorders, and Jail Bait (2005), which tackles sexual abuse. |
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 Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) became a national organization in 1981. One of PFLAG's most important functions is to counsel and support parents as they come to terms with their children's sexual orientation. |
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 The Point Foundation offers generous college grants to gifted students who have lost their families' support because of their sexual orientation. Once in college, the foundation provides each scholarship recipient with mentoring and supervision to support personal growth and academic success. |
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 Alex Sanchez (b. 1957) writes fiction for the middle-grade audience that draws on his years of experience as a guidance counselor. Though his books have been lauded by teachers and librarians, they have also faced attempts at censorship. |
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 Shyam Selvadurai (b. 1965) is a Sri Lankan-Canadian writer whose third novel, Swimming in the Monsoon Sea (2005), targeted Young Adult readers. The novel chronicles a fourteen-year-old Sri Lankan boy's falling in love with his visiting Canadian cousin. The book was a finalist for Canada's most prestigious literary award. |
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| Sex Education programs are vulnerable to the attempts of religious radicals to hijack the sex education movement as a means of disseminating their own repressive blend of intolerance and fear.
Because of the opposition of conservative Christians, basic discussion of sexual orientation in public schools across the country remains rare. |
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| Student Organizations for gay and lesbian students began in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a handful found at large universities. Today, nearly all American college campuses have glbtq student organizations and more than 3,000 GSAs have been formed in high schools throughout the United States. | ||
| Teachers have historically faced all manner of social pressures, including open hostiliy and expectations that they hide their sexuality. Now, however, teacher groups and individuals are working to improve the climate for glbtq teachers. | ||
| Transgender people are becoming increasingly visible at secondary and post-secondary schools, but relatively few institutions provide for the needs of transgender students. If institutions are to be welcoming to people of all genders, issues of discrimination and equal access to facilities and health care need to be addressed. | ||
 The Trevor Project is a Los Angeles-based educational organization that operates the only national 24-hour, toll-free suicide prevention hot line in the U.S. aimed at glbtq youth. |
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 Jacqueline Woodson (b. 1963) is an African-American lesbian author of books for young adults. She often writes about girls, but her uncanny ability to understand the adolescent mind and communicate young adult feelings has also allowed her to write from the perspective of teen-aged boys. |
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Maurice RavelDISTINGUISHED FRENCH COMPOSER, 1875
Bret Easton EllisONE OF THE MOST ACCOMPLISHED OF THE "GENERATION X" WRITERS, 1964
Wanda Sykes
COMEDIAN, ACTRESS, AND ACTIVIST, 1964
COMEDIAN, ACTRESS, AND ACTIVIST, 1964
March 8
Jonathan Williams
AUTHOR OF MORE THAN A HUNDRED BOOKS AND BOOKLETS OF GAY POETRY, 1929
AUTHOR OF MORE THAN A HUNDRED BOOKS AND BOOKLETS OF GAY POETRY, 1929
Patrick Califia
CONTROVERSIAL DEFENDER OF SEXUAL FREEDOM, 1954
CONTROVERSIAL DEFENDER OF SEXUAL FREEDOM, 1954
March 9
Umberto Saba
BISEXUAL ITALIAN POET WHO WROTE POEMS THAT EXPRESSED HIS LOVE FOR ADOLESCENT BOYS, AS WELL AS FOR HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER, 1883
BISEXUAL ITALIAN POET WHO WROTE POEMS THAT EXPRESSED HIS LOVE FOR ADOLESCENT BOYS, AS WELL AS FOR HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER, 1883
Vita Sackville-West
PROLIFIC AUTHOR WHO HAD AN AFFAIR WITH VIRGINIA WOOLF, 1892
PROLIFIC AUTHOR WHO HAD AN AFFAIR WITH VIRGINIA WOOLF, 1892
Robert McAlmon
AMERICAN PUBLISHER AND WRITER WHOSE WORKS DEPICTED THE GAY SUBCULTURES OF BERLIN AND PARIS, 1896
AMERICAN PUBLISHER AND WRITER WHOSE WORKS DEPICTED THE GAY SUBCULTURES OF BERLIN AND PARIS, 1896
Samuel BarberAMERICAN COMPOSER REMEMBERED FOR HIS SUCCESSES AND ONE SPECTACULAR FAILURE, 1910
Mark MerlisNOVELIST WHO EXAMINES GAY CONCERNS THROUGH HISTORICAL PARALLELS, 1950
March 10
Lillian WaldSOCIAL REFORMER AND ADVOCATE FOR WOMEN'S AND FAMILY WELFARE, 1867
John RechyNOVELIST KNOWN FOR CHRONICLING THE PRE-STONEWALL GAY SEXUAL UNDERWORLD, 1934
Bhupen Khakhar
RENOWNED INDIAN ARTIST WHOSE PAINTINGS ADDRESS HOMOSEXUALITY EXPLICITLY, 1934
RENOWNED INDIAN ARTIST WHOSE PAINTINGS ADDRESS HOMOSEXUALITY EXPLICITLY, 1934
Holly HughesCONTROVERSIAL LESBIAN FEMINIST PERFORMANCE ARTIST AND PLAYWRIGHT, 1955
March 11
Henry CowellA MUSICAL INNOVATOR WHO SOUGHT TO CREATE AN "ULTRAMODERN" STYLE, 1897
John BarrowmanACCOMPLISHED ACTOR AND SINGER KNOWN FOR HIS SKILLFUL INTERPRETATIONS OF THE WORKS OF COLE PORTER, ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER, AND STEPHEN SONDHEIM, 1967
Christopher RiceAUTHOR OF POPULAR GAY-THEMED SUSPENSE THRILLERS, 1978
March 12
Vaslav NijinskyONE OF THE GREATEST DANCERS IN THE HISTORY OF BALLET, 1889
Jack KerouacBISEXUAL WRITER WHO OMITTED HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS FROM HIS OTHERWISE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WORKS, 1922
Edward AlbeeAMERICAN DRAMATIST WHOSE CAREER SUFFERED AS THE RESULT OF HOMOPHOBIA, 1928
Randall Kenan
AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITER WHOSE CHARACTERS INHABIT A FICTIONAL COMMUNITY, 1963
AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITER WHOSE CHARACTERS INHABIT A FICTIONAL COMMUNITY, 1963
March 13
Janet FlannerAMERICAN WRITER BEST KNOWN FOR FIFTY YEARS OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE NEW YORKER, 1892
Joe Goode
CHOREOGRAPHER WHO CHALLENGES TRADITIONAL GENDER ASSUMPTIONS, 1951
CHOREOGRAPHER WHO CHALLENGES TRADITIONAL GENDER ASSUMPTIONS, 1951
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Tove Jansson
Best known for her series of children's books about the Moomin family of trolls, Tove Jansson (1914-2001), considered a national treasure in Finland, also wrote fiction for adults and was an accomplished artist and illustrator.
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Neil MillerHistorian and journalist Neil Miller (b. 1945) has attempted to widen the understanding of gay and lesbian life by moving away from the major metropolitan areas, focusing instead on small cities and rural areas.
Henry Cady WellsFamous for his watercolor paintings, Henry Cady Wells (1904-1954) was also a patron of the arts and an activist citizen of the Santa Fe and Taos art colonies from the 1930s to the 1950s.
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Fashion designer Alexander McQueen was found dead in his London home on February 11, 2010. Noted as a fashion innovator and provocateur, McQueen was four times named "British Fashion Designer of the Year." Queen Elizabeth II honored him as Commander of the British Empire in 2003.
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