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The Video
The Can LGBTQ + School = Safe? video explores the problems experienced by queer youth in school settings and offers proven solutions, including how to start a Gay-Straight Alliance in your school. This film offers both voices and faces of today's youth, queer and straight, expressing their own outlooks and telling their own stories about this multi-dimensional issue.
Through candid interviews with both students and faculty members by the by the youth themselves, the school setting is reconsidered as a safe space for building a community that complies with important human rights ideals. LGBTQ youth address openly about their personal experiences with violence and harassment in the school place, illuminating the reality of school safety for those who are discriminated against.
This film also provides helpful and practical guidelines to assist and encourage those interested in starting their own Gay-Straight Alliance at school. With initial steps and tips on how to overcome inevitable obstacles, this film ultimately offers an authentic look into the current situation for LGBTQ youth while giving a glimpse of the affirmative results that can stem from school solidarity and activism.
Produced by Beyondmedia Education and available for sale online here.
Study GuidesTwo study guides are available for you to download that can be used alongside the video screening. They are Microsoft Word format:
Study Guides were created by CESO who have since merged with CSSI into the Illinois Safe School Alliance.