This week's discusison topic is online safety.
Working with School Personnel for Safer Schools Recording & Training Toolkit
With the passage of “Don’t Say Gay” bills in numerous states and book bans making national headlines, the past few years have been devastating for safe schools advocates. Many chapters...
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Something to Talk About Live: August 26, 2021
This week's discussion topic is conversion therapy and the film Pray Away on Netflix.
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Something to Talk About Live: June 10, 2021
This week's discussion topic is how to find an LGBTQ+ inclusive college or university.
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Be Kind, Rewind: Recognizing Your Role in Building Inclusion Recording & Training Toolkit
Nonstop social media. Quarantine. Political unrest. Baggage. And so many deadlines. Nearly everyone strives to be a more inclusive, kind leader, but getting it right is rarely easy. We are all...
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Something to Talk About Live: September 3, 2020
This week's discussion topic is the isolation many LGBTQ+ young people felt during stay-at-home orders in the COVID-19 era.
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Creating a Scholarship Program: A How-To Guide for PFLAG Chapters Recording & Training Toolkit
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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February 11, 2018
PFLAG National Speaks Out Against “Abhorrent” Act by Department of Education Against Transgender Students
WASHINGTON, D.C.—PFLAG National—the nation’s first and largest organization uniting families and allies with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people —responded today to the ann
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What We Know Now: Updating Best Practices for Talking About Suicide & LGBT Populations
The media coverage that took root in the aftermath of these deaths gave LGBT suicide unprecedented visibility and sparked long-overdue public conversation about suicide risk in LGBT communities. But a lot of what was being said about the suicides of young people known or believed to be gay was deeply concerning. The singular focus on bullying oversimplified the complex factors that can lead people to take their lives, and suicide was widely portrayed as an almost inevitable response to the rejection and abuse suffered by so many LGBT youth. Fears began to mount that the rampant publicity would lead other vulnerable LGBT young people to identify with the experiences of the suicide victims and copy their behavior.
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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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Be an Ally to Trans and Gender Nonconforming Students from GLSEN
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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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Cultivating Respect: Safe Schools for ALL Children Recording & Training Toolkit
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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NCLR Transgender Youth Project
National Center for Lesbian Rights
NCLR has launched the Transgender Youth Project to make it easier for transgender youth to live authentically—and with respect—in all aspects of their lives. Building on more than 20 years of advocacy on behalf of the transgender community, the project takes on precedent-setting cases to expand legal protections for youth, advocates for inclusive, affirming, and welcoming policies at all levels of government, and furthers equality through public education.
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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 Recording & Training Toolkit
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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Student Non-Discrimination Act (SNDA)
SNDA would establish a comprehensive Federal prohibition of discrimination in public schools based on actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity. SNDA would provide...
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The Safe Schools Improvement Act (SSIA)
SSIA would amend the Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities Act—part of the No Child Left Behind Act—and instruct school districts to...
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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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A Letter to the World from Debi about Her Trans Kid
We received, via Facebook, a note in the form of a video link, asking us to take a watch and a listen as a woman took on the myths about transgender kids. We watched and, well needless to say, we were...
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A Poem to Tristan from Mom
We received the following via email:
Hello. My name is Dawn Jaksons and I'm a PFLAG mom in Edmond, Oklahoma.
Our son came out to us when he was 14. We told him we loved him no matter what. Accepting
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