Tucson GSA Hangout Mailing List

I've set up an mailing list called GLBTeen—Tucson GSA Hangout. This "club" is a place for Tucson area high school students to interact and brainstorm about their GSA, the Imagine Project, and statewide issues & concerns. Click on this link to go to the web address and sign up for the mailing list and join to send & receive email messages or read & post messages to the GLBTeen-GSA Hangout group.

Please note: this new mailing list service (as of Nov.20, 2005) is intended to replace the Yahoo Tucson GSA Hangout "group" that has been mostly inaccessible for the past couple of months.

Visit a new page on the site, Other GLBT Communities — links page. Info in support of black, Asian-American, Latino-American, deaf and visually impaired members of the GLBT community.

I'm including a link to an online resource I've found for GSA Network, an information source for GSAs in California. There's a great display of student's photography. Check it out!

I'm including a link to an online resource I've found for GSA Network, an information source for GSAs in California. There's a great display of student's photography. Check it out!

Lambda Youth OUTReach

The Lambda Youth OUTReach site has great information about being a teen and being gay: questioning your sexual orientation, telling parents, questions parents have, safer sex, reporting hate crimes and harassment. Good resource - check it out!

Youth Resource is a great place for info for GLBT youth and has links and ideas about youth activism in the community and on campus.

The Gay & Lesbian National Hotline is not a GLBTQ teen-specific resource, but is a very important resource available for free. Here is a brief description about the Hotline from their web site:

The Gay & Lesbian National Hotline is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization dedicated to meeting the needs of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning community by offering by offering free and totally anonymous information, referrals and peer-counseling.

Monday - Friday 4pm-midnight and Saturday noon-5pm EST.
National toll-free number — 1-888-THE-GLNH (1-888-843-4564)

Prof. Louis-Georges Tin, president of the International Committee for IDAHO—International Day Against Homophobia announced the launching of a global petition campaign for a proposed United Nations resolution in favor of the universal decriminalization of homosexuality.

"With more than 70 countries in the world still making homosexuality a crime by law — and punishable by death in twelve of them — this is a legal scandal which the petition for a proposed U.N. resolution decriminalizing homosexuality gives people a concrete way to fight," Tin said.

The International Committee for IDAHO coordinates world-wide annual observances of the Day Against Homophobia each May 17 — and in this, its second year, IDAHO was marked by events in over 50 countries and endorsed by the European Parliament.

The Gay Youth Corner is a fun, international site with blogs, forums, chat rooms, info on coming out, sexuality, support—a popular gay youth website, offering a lively community, articles, resources and much more.

The Black Stripe exists to provide information for and about same-gender-loving lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people of African descent.

Project 10

Project 10 is dedicated to providing educational support services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and question youth who attend public school campuses. Project 10 has an original primary focus on students in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Lots of great resources for GLBTQ youth and schools.

OutMinds is a great web site with lots of helpful info, discussion areas, links on how to know if you're gay, coming out, safer sex for teens, getting help at school. Very nice site--check it out!

Quotes on Homosexuality on Quote Garden

Quote Garden is a great web site with a total focus on quotations for all occasions and topics. Check out their list of quotes on homosexuality—some a real scream! Very nice, easy to use site--check it out!

Intersex Initiative

Intersex Initiative (IPDX) is a great web site about a national activist and advocacy organization for people born with intersex conditions.

Intersex (also known as DSD, or Disorder of Sex Differentiation) refers to a series of medical conditions in which a child's genetic sex (chromosomes) and phenotypic sex (genital appearance) do not match, or are somehow different from the "standard" male or female.

The Cool Page For Queer Teens

The Cool Page For Queer Teens is a great web site with lots of helpful info on how to know if you're gay, coming out, safer sex for teens, getting help at school.

Scarleteen is a great web site for contemporary sex education for GLBTQ teens. Lots of great articles, frank talk about sexuality.

NOTE: Access to this site is blocked in the Amphitheater Public Schools for sexu education material. Apparently, students should only hear about abstinence as part of their sex education.

The Safe Schools Coalition is a great place for info about making schools a safe place for everyone. Lots of great links, lesson plans for teachers and students, t-shirts, stickers, bibliographies, Spanish-language version of their site is provided. Here's the mission statement from their web site.

"The mission of The Safe Schools Coalition: A Public-Private Partnership in Support of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth is to help schools - at home and all over the world - become safe places where every family can belong, where every educator can teach, and where every child can learn, regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation."

The American Civil Liberties Union Lesbian and Gay Rights Project has great information, especially the legal side of GSAs and schools. There is also a great selection of materials for trainings: for teachers and students, surveys. Great!

The National Youth Advocacy Coalition is a great place for info about taking an active role in determining your future. Here's the mission statement from their web site.

"The National Youth Advocacy Coalition is a social justice organization that advocates for and with young people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning (LGBTQ) in an effort to end discrimination against these youth and to ensure their physical and emotional well being."

Intersex Society of North America

The Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) is a public awareness, education, and advocacy organization which works to create a world free of shame, secrecy, and unwanted surgery for intersex people individuals born with anatomy or physiology which differs from cultural ideals of male and female.

Examples of medical diagnoses which result in intersexuality are: clitoromegaly, micropenis, hypospadias, ambiguous genitals, early genital surgery, adrenal hyperplasia, Klinefelter Syndrome, androgen insensitivity, testicular feminization.

OutProud!--National Coalition for GLBT Youth

OutProud!, the National Coalition for GLBT Youth, is a great Internet resource for GLBT youth. OutProud has loads of ideas for activism at school, setting up a GSA, a chat line, and many other great activities.

The Advocate: A Vital Resource for Gay Opinion Leaders - Visit Advocate.com for daily headlines, breaking news, online exclusives, entertainment coverage, celebrity interviews, and extensive LGBT resources and events.

C.O.L.A.G.E.

COLAGE (Children of Gays And Lesbians Everywhere) provides a meeting place for children, teens, and young adults, gay or straight, who have a parent or parents who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. COLAGE is an off-shoot of Family Pride Coalition, an organization that provides support for gay parents. COLAGE provides numerous support options for its members.

Family Pride Coalition is an organization that provides support for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender parents. Family Pride provides numerous support options for its members--conferences, annual national picnic in Provincetown, MA, newsletter, and an online email group (listserv).

Student Pride is the online, Internet service that is the student-driven organization within GLSEN. Student Pride is all about helping students form a Gay/Straight Alliance (GSA) at their school, resource materials, and GSA registration to have the GSA listed in the Student Pride database. Links to other schools' GSA web pages.

HomoRama--GLBT Search Engine

HomoRama--GLBT Search Engine is an online, Internet web page "search engine" similar to HotBot, Yahoo, or Lycos; the difference being that HomoRama focuses on GLBT-related web sites, themes, and search terms.

PlanetOut--Online Service is an online, Internet-based service that acts as a meeting place for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender web users. PlanetOut provides numerous activities and options for its members--daily gay-related news, personals, advice from Betty DeGeneres--Ellen's Mom, PlanetOut Radio for music/news/events, shopping, chat rooms, and PopcornQ--movie reviews, streaming video, and video sales. It's fun and lively--check it out!

Does your school district block your access to PlanetOut? Does your school block access to other sites developed with youth in mind (such as MTV?) or is your district making a judgement based on a stereotype of GLBT people? Please, send me email if you cannot access PlanetOut while connected to the Internet at your school, or visit the Filtered Gay Internet Links and fill out the requested information.