Corona del Sol High School brings
to you GSA
(Gay-Straight Alliance)
GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) is a club at Corona del Sol High School working to promote acceptance and awareness of the LGBTQ community, both on campus and outside of school. We meet every Tuesday after school in Room (F015). EVERYONE IS WELCOMED AND ENCOURAGED TO JOIN, whether you are gay, straight, questioning, whatever.
News & Events
News and Events from all around us.
Love will find you!
Whether is now or later know that love will find you. But in order to get the same rights as everyone else you have to fight for them you have to make your voice heard and you need to believe that your voice will be heard.
Here is a lovely video of an Australian couple who got married a while back. Earlier I posted this video and sorry I wrote down the wrong information. The couple is not from England they are from Australia, still very cute video. France to take a big step...
Justice Minister Christiane Taubira told the national assembly Tuesday that the bill constitutes an “act of equality. … Finally, marriage will be a universal institution.” “We have never underestimated the importance of this reform,” Taubira said of the plan that’s divided the Catholic-majority country. Read more here.
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Club Events and News
Monday, February 11th
GSA officers will meet on Monday and this will be our last meeting for the month of February we will meet again on March 4th.
Tuesday, February 12th
The club will have a regular meeting on Tuesday, February 12th make sure to come to room F015.
Tuesday, January 29th
The GSA Club will be discussing "Stereotypes" a follow-up on our discussion from last meeting on Tuesday, January 22nd "The LGBTQ community and the media" our last subject point into the LGBTQ and the media was stereotypes.
Are they (the media) breaking or creating more stereotypes? What are some of the LGBTQ stereotypes you know of? Please remember to bring your notebooks/journals and don't forget to have questions ready for your next GSA interview. Monday, January 28th
GSA Officer meeting.
Tuesday, January 22nd
The GSA Club will be discussing "The LGBTQ community and the media." We will look at how the LGBTQ community has expanded in the media. We will look at how television has change the way people now view the LGBTQ community. And we will talk about the changes the media has brought to the community.
Tuesday, January 15th
The GSA Club will be discussing the differences between "Tolerance" and "Respect". Mana (VP), Ivy (Historian), and Anna (Treasurer) will be giving the presentation on this topic. At the end of the discussion we will be watching a video from Shorthandhero youtube channel.
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OUR GOAL
The goal of most, if not all, gay–straight alliances is to make their school community safe and welcoming to all students regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. They participate in national campaigns to raise awareness, such as the Day of Silence, National Coming Out Day, No Name Calling Week, or locally organized Campaigns . Many GSAs work with local chapters of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, commonly called GLSEN or a state based organization such as GSA Network. The registered number of GSAs to GLSEN is over 4000, as of 2008.In California alone over 762 GSAs are registered, representing more than 50% of California's High Schools. Over half the states in the USA have one or more statewide groups that work with GSAs. Many of these state based groups and local chapters of GLSEN participate in the National Association of GSA Networks. GSA Networks have been formed to help local area students to network and connect to local resources, provide training for youth leaders, and sponsor local GSA efforts.
Some GSAs change their name to place less emphasis on the word "gay," resulting in alternatives such as "Project Rainbow," "Pride Alliance," "Common Ground," "Coexist", "Spectrum," or even the "Straight-Gay Alliance." There are continued efforts to make GSAs and like programs accepting of a wide range of individuals. The common acronym "LGBT" can include many additional letters including "QQASIP": corresponding to queer, questioning, asexual or allied, straight, intersex and pansexual.
The first GSA was started in 1988, in Concord, Massachusetts at Concord Academy by Kevin Jennings, the creator and head of the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network GLSEN. The first public school gay–straight alliance was started at Newton South High School (Newton Centre, Massachusetts) by teacher Robert Parlin.
(the information above was found through wikipedia.org )
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