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I'm almost positive that this topic has been done before, but... ::shrug::
Do any of you have GSAs in your high schools/colleges? And if so, how well accepted are they?

I'm only asking because National Ally Week is almost at an end. I found out that (to my surprise) there are a lot of allies at my school... but then again, there are also the idiots who went around tearing down pledge sheets and harassing people who wore stickers... xp

The GSA in my school is pretty accepted. We're probably like.. .50% okay, 50% homophobic at my school. Maybe a little less homophobic but we're doing well and we've done alot. We had 200 people participating in the DoS last year (out of 1500, so that isn't so great and alot signed up just so they didn't have to talk in school)

One of the things I hate is that, although we have a lot of LGBTA people, we're such a quiet, non-obtrusive group that nobody notices. Even though there are so many of us, what little we say is drowned out by random "You f**"s and "You're so gay"s...
We can still be a minority. But can't we be a vocal minority? crying

I don't think we have one ether. Plus i'd be far to shy to join it. gonk

Good for you. Although I'd say I'd be alittle shy about joining a GSA at my school. All the bullies at my school are serious homophobes.

Sadly, there's no GSA at my highschool. Or at least not that I know of. Probably because everywhere you look, there's at least like 10 homophobes. >.<

I hate it so much!! It makes me want to cry...

Alright, my school had it's annual, Activity Faire day, where all the extra curricular activities do their thang and show off. Always it sucks, and always almost no one comes.

Well I'm there for the GSA, almost the whole day. I was the one who made the bord for it, the 3 sided kind. If I can I'll get a good picture of it up. I painted it rainbowish, and then write in big black letters, GSA, and then on the lower part I pain in the boy/boy boy/girl girl/girl picture, the people look like restroom people holding hands, as well, I taped up a few things I had gotten at the DC Youth Pride Day, a poster about name calling, and some other things about the GSA and the LBGT groups. The two teachers that sponser GSA loved it.

About... 6th period, one of the PE groups comes through since the PE groups are the ONLY ones that came through. And I get this one a** HOLE of a kid. He's all in his PE uniform, with a huge hole in the center, comes up and looks at the board, reading the poaster about name calling, on it, it has a very sad person, crying, and all around them are words like, "Dyke, Lesbo, Queer, What a weirdo..." And a few other really hateful words, at the bottom of it it says, "Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me... right?" And I love that poster to death! But this kid comes up and starts reading the words aloud, almost as if he dosnt know what they mean untill he hears himself saying them.

Then he turns to me and just FLAT OUT asks, "Are you gay?" I just tell him that it's rude to ask people those things, and that it shouldnt matter, then again he asks, "Are you a lesbian?" Then I say, "Again, not nice, it's really rude, you shouldnt ask people those things, thats not what GSA is about." He then asks, something else, I tell him again it's rude, and then he says something about a "******** dyke..." And then mumbles something and takes off running, my board completly falling off the table.

I'm so pissed off now I could have hit him so hard his children would have felt it. But I didnt, and I'm proud of it. I get his name from one of my friends whos in the same PE class, I write it down. Then a friend of his and him come up here and shes full out appologixing for his actions calling hima few names. I just ignore them both. Then they leave and once I see one of our sponsors for the club, one of the PE teachers too, I go to her and tell her what he did and his name. Hopeing that he's get detention or SOMETHING for it.

The last thing I wanted her to do was drag him back here, and make him appologize for something I KNEW her wasnt sorry for. But as long as he appologizes, they dont give him a detention, not even a write up. But, what does she do? She takes him out of his PE class, dragging him back to the table, and EXPLAINS to him what GSA is all about. ALL THE WHILE THIS LITTLE s**t HEAD BOUNCES HIS BASKET BALL ALL AROUND, ACTING LIKE A SNOBBY a** HOLE AND NOT EVEN LISTENING TO HER!! Traci the girl doing the table with me tells him to stop, thank god, and he does. So, when shes dont explaining to him what GSA is about she tells him to appologize, he does and she asks us if we accept. I dont want to draw it out any longer, I said yes, just to get him out of a my sight. -_- She tells him that to find out more about what GSA is about to come to a meeting, she tries to hand him a flyer and he refuses, saying he wont go anyways. So she lets him go back to class, and she returns to teaching hers.

As well, durring that specific class period, at least 4 guys would go running by our table and purposly make our board fall over, only AFTER that little s**t head started it. Also, throughout the whole day, I had people come up ask what GSA stood for, I'd explain it to them and then this look would just cross their faces and then they'd say, "Oh." And leave.

I thought the world was better then this by now. I thought they were a bit more accepting. I guess not. Becuase when we shove it in their faces they just ignore it or make fun of it. It makes me so upset that people just wont accept it. I feel... a rage inside me that I cant controll sometimes, and it's driving me nuts.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. I just needed to get it out of my system. I'll be posting it in it's own thread and on my journal in several different websites. Thanks again. heart

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