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- HRC Welcoming Schools Program: HRC Foundation’s Welcoming Schools is the most comprehensive bias-based bullying prevention program in the nation to provide LGBTQ+ and gender-inclusive professional development training, lesson plans, booklist, and resources specifically designed for educators and youth-serving professionals.
- HRC 2018 Youth Report: HRC Foundation and the University of Connecticut released the largest-of-its-kind survey ever of more than 12,000 LGBTQ+ teenagers across the nation, revealing in distressing detail the persistent challenges so many of them face going about their daily lives at home, at school, and in their communities.
- Black and African American LGBTQ+ Youth Report: In 2017, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation partnered with researchers at the University of Connecticut to conduct a groundbreaking survey of over 12,000 LGBTQ+ youth and capture their experiences in their families, schools, social circles, and communities. More than 1,600 Black and African American LGBTQ+ youth responded to the survey.
- Latinx LGBTQ+ Youth Report: This resource presents data collected from these youth, shedding light on their challenges and triumphs encountered while navigating multiple, intersecting identities.
- LGBTQ+ Asian and Pacific Islander Youth Report: This resource presents data collected from Asian and Pacific Islander LGBTQ+ youth, shedding light on their challenges and triumphs encountered while navigating multiple, intersecting identities.
- Bi+ Youth Report: HRC Foundation, in partnership with the University of Connecticut, released the 2019 Bi+ Youth Report, a groundbreaking resource detailing the experiences of bisexual, pansexual, queer, and sexually fluid (bi+) LGBTQ+ youth.
- 2018 Gender-Expansive Youth Report: This report details the alarming challenges and barriers facing transgender and gender-expansive youth around the country -- and their perseverance in the face of discrimination and harassment.
- LGBTQ+ Inclusive Position Statements and Resolutions: To empower and guide more youth-serving professionals to take action around the safety, health, and well-being of LGBTQ+ youth, we have compiled a list of resolutions and position statements from major health, education, and child welfare organizations.
- COVID Resources: As COVID-19 continues sweeping the world, hundreds of thousands of people have contracted the virus, and every community has been affected. The LGBTQ+ community in the U.S. — along with many communities around the globe — will face unique challenges due to its economic and health care situations.
- Pride Resources: Show PRIDE with HRC!
- Why Say Gay? K-3 Lesson Plans and Resources: Check out these Welcoming Schools lesson plans and resources from HRC.
- Resources: Whether you’re a student, an educator, or an ally looking to support safer and more inclusive schools, you can have a role in creating change!
- Pronoun Guide: This guide is created to help anyone learn how to use people’s correct pronouns. Everyone in your school community should engage in learning, educating, and advocating for the inclusive use of pronouns for all.
- Erasure and Resilience: The Experiences of LGBTQ+ Students of Color: Erasure and Resilience: The Experiences of LGBTQ+ Students of Color is a series of four research reports that examines the school experiences of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI), Black, Latinx, and Native and Indigenous LGBTQ youth.
- Webinars on Hosting a Virtual GSA and Supporting Students: In Oct 2020 GLSEN and the NEA (National Education Association) held a virtual GSA Advisors Summit. These webinars cover topics for elementary, middle, and high school GSAs such as starting a virtual GSA, activities for virtual GSA meetings, organizing platforms, discussions on supporting Black LGBTQ+ students, and supporting LGBTQ+ students during the pandemic.
- Research and Education Webinars: GLSEN’s education webinars share real-life stories, relevant data, and effective practices around LGBTQ+ inclusion in schools. GLSEN's resources are full of tips and tools to help you create a safe and affirming learning environment for all of your students.
The National Black Justice is America’s leading national civil rights organization dedicated to the empowerment of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer+, and same gender loving (LGBTQ+/SGL) people, including people living with HIV/AIDS through coalition building, federal policy change, research, and education.
The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) is a national legal organization committed to advancing the civil and human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families through litigation, legislation, policy, and public education.
The National Center for Transgender Equality advocates to change policies and society to increase understanding and acceptance of transgender people. In the nation’s capital and throughout the country, NCTE works to replace disrespect, discrimination, and violence with empathy, opportunity, and justice.
The National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) is a federation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) organizations. We seek to build the organizational capacity of local LGBT AAPI groups, develop leadership, promote visibility, educate our community, enhance grassroots organizing, expand collaborations, and challenge anti-LGBTQ bias and racism.
The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning youth.
TransLash Media is a nonprofit organization and digital community made up of conversation starters, documentarians, artists, technologists, activists, and allies who are committed to supporting trans/non-binary/intersex/two-spirit people through trans stories to save trans lives. We do so without censorship and erasure from mainstream media.
TransLash launched a new investigative, limited-series podcast today called The Anti-Trans Hate Machine: A Plot Against Equality.The Anti-Trans Hate Machine examines—over the course of four episodes—the organizations, people, money, and radical ideology behind the anti-trans, legislative backlash currently underway in over 30 states. A year in the making, TransLash started work on The Anti-Trans Hate Machine in 2020 with a simple question: "who's behind these bills?" To answer it, TransLash put together a team of twelve producers, researchers and fact checkers to find out. This series is the result of their work.
