GLSEN blogs

Here’s What Happened When I Saw LGBTQ People Li...

Photo by Wunmi Onibudo  I can still distinctly remember how fantastic it felt when sixth-grade me found an old, water-damaged copy of Nancy Garden’s Annie on My Mind on the...

GLSEN and Wells Fargo Teach Respect to 2.2 Mill...

GLSEN’s work in secondary schools, like the distribution of the GLSEN Safe Space Kit to every middle and high school in the country, has shifted the needle towards respect for...

For LGBTQ Youth, Schools’ Failures May Mean Hig...

Unjust: How the Broken Juvenile and Criminal Justice Systems Fail LGBTQ Youth was released today. This blog was co-authored by Emily Greytak, PhD, Director of Research at GLSEN and Naomi Goldberg,...

18 LGBTQ Youth Who Are Changing the World

GLSEN's National Student Council in Washington, D.C. / Photo by Wunmi Onibudo Every year, GLSEN selects a group of exceptional LGBTQ young people for our national student leadership team, the National...

A Message for the Next President, and How You C...

On March 23, 2009, a GLSEN delegation met with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan – the first time a sitting Secretary of Education had ever taken a meeting on LGBTQ...

First National Study of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisex...

This is a guest post by Laura Kann, PhD, Chief of the School-Based Surveillance Branch of the Division of Adolescent and School Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The first...