Lessons from the Safe Schools movement

[Natasha]

Lessons from the Safe Schools movement

http://www.baywindows.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=news&sc3=&id=75827
6/11/2008

"Twenty years ago, when the first Gay-Straight Alliance was created, with the goal of making schools safer for students regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity and expression, no one would have predicted it would be the beginning of a national movement encompassing 4000 high schools and middle schools in North America. Conservatives were enjoying a run in the White House and progressives everywhere were on the defensive. The Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth began in 1992, however, under Republican Gov. William Weld, and the Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Student Rights Law passed in 1993."