Looking for ways to keep the conversation going about LGBTQ+ issues with your ERG, community group, or PFLAG chapter? Welcome to Something to Talk About, a monthly series designed by PFLAG National’s Straight for Equality program to create conversation about...
For the 9 out of 10 LGBTQ students who experience some form of mistreatment in school, education can be a frightening experience. It’s incumbent upon parents, families, friends, and allies to make schools safer for ALL students. PFLAG chapters work directly with schools and stakeholders in their communities, providing support, resources, training, creative programs, and even model policy to create an environment of respect. Our umbrella program to support their efforts, work with our national partners and raise visibility of the issues facing LGBTQ youth in learning environments is our Cultivating Respect: Safe Schools for All program, with its supporting publication. Our advocacy work at the federal, state and local levels are an integral part as well. All of this work is designed to reinforce and support the work done by our local chapters to ensure that we all create and support learning environments that help all students find educational success.
PFLAGers have spent decades on the front lines, fighting innumerable instances of bullying, harassment, and discrimination in our nation’s schools and communities.
Cultivating Respect: Safe Schools for All
Ready to be an advocate for safe schools? This publication gives you the tools and resources you need to make sure that all kids have access to education in a safe and supportive environment.
Claim Your Rights
Protect the rights of LGBTQ students by ensuring that reports are collected and the case is made for laws and policies to address issues of harassment, bullying, and discrimination.
PFLAG Scholarship Programs
PFLAG chapters across the country have great scholarships available, which support the next generation of leaders working to make schools and communities safe and welcoming for all.
Something to Talk About Live: April 30, 2020
Looking for ways to keep the conversation going about LGBTQ+ issues with your ERG, community group, or PFLAG chapter? Welcome to Something to Talk About, a monthly series designed by PFLAG National’s Straight for Equality...
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Something to Talk About Live: April 16, 2020
Looking for ways to keep the conversation going about LGBTQ+ issues with your ERG, community group, or PFLAG chapter? Welcome to Something to Talk About, a monthly series designed by PFLAG National’s Straight for Equality program to create...
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Creating a Scholarship Program: A How-To Guide for PFLAG Chapters
Scholarship programs are a great way to attract donors, create visibility for your chapter, and demonstrate your support for LGBTQ+ youth in your community. And over the years, countless PFLAG...
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Training Toolkit: Creating a Scholarship Program
Thanks for participating in PFLAG National’s Creating a Scholarship Program A How-To Guide for PFLAG Chapters. One of our key goals is to help you take the information that you learned in this...
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PFLAG Offers a Hopeful Glimmer
I do believe we will retain much of the progress we have made toward LGBT inclusion and understanding in schools.
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Training Toolkit: Working with School Personnel for Safer Schools
Thanks for participating in PFLAG National’s Cultivating Respect: Working with School Personnel for Safer Schools webinar. One of our key goals is to help you take the information that you learned...
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June 22, 2017
Subaru of America Continues Partnership with PFLAG National to Make School Environments Safe
Since 2015, Subaru has partnered with PFLAG National and its network of chapters across the country to
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May 21, 2017
PFLAG Pendleton Awards Diversity Scholarship
Pendleton High School senior Raeana Mikel is the 2017 recipient of a $1,000 Roberta Frazier Anderson Diversity Scholarship, presented by PFLAG Pendleton.
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Health Risk Behaviors among Gender Expansive Students with Alison Gill
In addition to transgender youth, gender expansive (also called gender nonconforming or nonbinary) youth are receiving a great deal of attention in the media and among educators and policymakers. However,...
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March 4, 2017
Trans teen lobbies Ozark school for access
"I was worried about him being picked on," said Meghan Howard, who turned to the education and advocacy group PFLAG for guidance. "He was angry and closed off.
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March 1, 2017
PFLAG Port Huron on Title IX Guidance Rescission
Lisa Seelmann is the vice president of PFLAG Port Huron, a local chapter of a national organization that exists to support and advocate for those in the LGBTQ community, families, friends and allie
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March 5, 2017
PFLAG Statement on SCOTUS and Gavin Grimm Case
WASHINGTON, DC—PFLAG National—the nation's largest organization uniting families, allies, and people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ)—issued the follow
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February 22, 2017
Reactions: Trump Administration Rescinds Title IX Protections For Trans Students
“Tomorrow we will fight even harder for the protections that Title IX still affords all transgender youth across the country.”
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February 23, 2017
GLSEN and PFLAG National relaunch #ClaimYourRights campaign in support of transgender students
Today, GLSEN and PFLAG join together to re-launch our #ClaimYourRights Campaign, to help anyone affected by or witnessing anti-transgender discrimination in our schools file a complaint with the Of
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February 21, 2017
Trump Administration Revokes Trans Student Guidelines
And PFLAG executive director Elizabeth Kohm said, “PFLAG hearts everywhere are with the worried parents who will be kept awake tonight, and the kids who will be scared to go to school in the mornin
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Claim Your Rights Posters
PFLAG National and GLSEN have relaunched our #ClaimYourRights Campaign to help anyone affected by or witnessing anti-trans discrimination in schools file a complaint with the Office for Civil...
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FAQs: Rescission of U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Education (DOE) Title IX Guidance for Transgender Students
Answers to your most pressing questions.
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February 21, 2017
PFLAG National Statement on Rescission of Guidance Protecting Trans Students
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Urgent: Rescission of Title IX Guidance for Transgender Students
We need to share some disturbing news: There is a real possibility that the life-saving Title IX nondiscrimination guidance to protect transgender students might be rescinded.
We have neither commented on nor responded to rumors in the past month, but...
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February 14, 2017
PFLAG Will Hold Trump Administration Accountable — Kids' Lives Depend on It
How do we all move forward, when those who are supposed to lead in keeping our students safe have demonstrated a lack of experience, knowledge, and commitment to doing so?
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February 6, 2017
PFLAG National Statement on Betsy DeVos Confirmation
WASHINGTON, DC—PFLAG National—the nation's largest organization uniting families, allies, and people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ)—issued the follow
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Advocacy Groups to Distribute Nearly 50,000 Flyers Countering Anti-LGBT Propaganda
Beginning this morning, PFLAG, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Equality Maryland Foundation will distribute nearly 50,000 flyers in all 25 Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) high schools. The flyer addresses issues raised by dangerous anti-LGBTQ materials previously...
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May 12, 2016
PFLAG National Thanks DOE, DOJ For Guidance On Trans Students
WASHINGTON, DC—PFLAG National—the nation's largest organization uniting families, allies, and people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ)—today hailed the
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Documentary: FACING FEAR
Facing Fear, a new documentary
Facing Fear, a short Oscar-nominated documentary by Jason Cohen, is now available online.
As a 13 year-old, Matthew Boger was thrown out of his home for being gay. While living...
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November 28, 2016
PFLAG Dallas Speaks Out On Texas Proposed "Outing" Bill
In Amarillo, Texas, Republican Texas State Senator Konni Burton has introduced a bill that will force teachers and any other school faculty to out LGBT students, even if the student asks to keep th
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Cultivating Respect: Safe Schools for ALL Children
LGBTQ+ youth continue to face bullying and harassment in schools despite modest improvements in anti-bullying legislation, access to supportive teachers and administrators, and the spread of LGBTQ+ inclusive curricula. ...
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Training Toolkit: Cultivating Respect, Making School Safer for ALL Children
Thanks for participating in PFLAG National’s Cultivating Respect, Making School Safer for ALL Children webinar. One of our key goals is to help you take the information that you learned in...
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Safe Schools
Through training programs and practical guidance built on years of experience, we give our members the skills necessary to advocate for federal bills like the Student Non-Discrimination Act and...
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Top Ten Ways to Make Schools Safe
For too many of our children, attending school can be a frightening experience. And for parents, teachers, counselors, and administrators, providing a safe environment for young people can seem like a daunting task, especially when dealing with the issue of how to make not only classrooms, but all school facilities, more welcoming for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students.
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Cultivating Respect: Working with Stakeholders for Safer Schools
With the new school year in full-swing, is your chapter having a tough time getting your foot in the door at schools in your community? This session examines the many different ways...
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Cultivating Respect: Safe Schools for All
Are you ready to be an advocate for safe schools for all kids? Start here, with this publication created to give you the tools and resources you need to make...
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Meet Another 2015 PFLAG National Scholar!
In our most recent edition of the PFLAGPole (Winter 2016), we were excited to highlight some of the LGBTQ and ally youth who received scholarships from PFLAG National and our funding partners, including Dow (GLAD)...
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Curriculum Victory in Montgomery County, Maryland: A Case Study and Handbook for Action.
Exciting safe schools work coming from PFLAG Metro DC and a coalition of partners, and we're happy to share their work with you, courtesy of the following from handbook author David Fishback:
With the school year beginning, I am reminded...
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