If you want to go to the Evanston GSA Dance on April 14th you need to let me know ASAP so we can get a roster going and I can reserve tickets etc. Tickets are 5 dollars but if you want to go and can’t pay we will figure something out. Let me know okay?
Ask box - www.northsidegsa.tumblr.com/ask
Facebook - Northside GSA Facebook
-Emma
Sorry that we haven’t been very active! We plan to change that with tomorrow’s big gay (and incredibly short notice) meeting! woo hoo!
there will be food! invite your friends! go go go!
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[Image: LGBT in large letters. The T is being hoisted up as if being returned to its rightful spot. Underneath reads, “No Queer Left Behind”.]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_low231ZgW01qm3rmuo1_500.jpg)
[Image: LGBT in large letters. The T is being hoisted up as if being returned to its rightful spot. Underneath reads, “No Queer Left Behind”.]
Finger condoms! So cute!
Regular condoms! So useful!
Response Center! So full of badasses!
You guys! So great! Thanks for coming out! We love you!
Hey everyone. Chicago Public Library (CPL) just put out a list of books that are LGBT themed or have LGBT characters for TEENAGERS. There’s tons more for adults, and you just gotta research those on your own. Too much work for one person (ie me). Anyway here you go! I’ll include links to descriptions of the books (most likely amazon so you have reviews too.) I’ll put asterisks next to the ones I have read and enjoyed.
The Vast Fields of Ordinary by Nick Burd
Someday this Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron
How Beautiful the Ordinary edited by Michael Cart (book full of short stories)
Down to the Bone by Mayra Lazara Dole
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan *** this book is fantastic (I’m biased because John Green is my favorite author)
Last Exit to Normal by Michael Harmon * good, but deals more with the son’s reaction to his father’s sudden coming out rather than the main character being gay.
Freaks and Revelations by Davida Hurwin
Rage: a Love Story by Julie Ann Peters
Freak Show by James St. James (is this really this dude’s name?)
Another I really like is The Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson which deals a lot with being a teenager and not being sure about sexuality (all the main characters are GIRLS which does not happen a lot because no one ever wants to talk about lesbians). I can also say that all of David Levithan’s books contain gay main characters (because I read them all, aside from the fact he’s gay too). One of my favorite authors of all TIME is David Sedaris and he’s gay but his books aren’t about being gay, they’re about being David Sedaris and being wonderfully hilarious. Add your own to this list, it’s a baby list!
-Rita
EDIT: Nick just posted this link on FB and I thought I might as well add it now http://www.leewind.org/ it’s got a bunch of books and you can search and it’s wonderful. so check it!
GUYS
WE ARE CRAZY PROUD AND CRAZY HAPPY.
We are extremely excited to finally be able to invite you to the LGBT inclusive sexual education workshop after school on the 3rd.
GSA is proud to announce that our resident sophomore representative, Emma Leff, has pulled some strings, and we’ll be having sexual health and education teachers come to school and give a sex ed course that includes LGBT courtship. The instructors will be sure to cover everything that the regular sex ed teachers don’t cover, and we PROMISE it won’t be awkward - the instructor is neither creepy nor old, and it’ll be a nice, safe environment.
We’re not only trying to educate our LGBT peers, but spark a discussion about why inclusive sex ed is not included in regular curriculum. We also think it’s super important for you to know what your LGBT friends are up to, you know?
*You don’t have to be in the LGBT community to come* - it’s open to anyone that wants to be informed. I leave you with our catchy catchline:
Got the right kind of info for the wrong kind of stuff?
Get it straight!
Come to GSA’s LGBT inclusive sexual education workshop.
Hooray!
*ps if you have any questions or concerns, please contact any of the admins via facebook, carrier pigeons, and/or smoke signals.*
*also the room will be updated as soon as we know where we’ll be hosting it. the more people we expect, the bigger the room we’ll need*
*invite all of your friends.*
And does so with gravity and a beautiful post. Mazel Tov. I really think he’s an inspiration.
Vlog Brothers: Coming Out and Sperm Spikes
In which Hank talks about his personal struggles with his sexuality and confusing his gender identity with his sexual orientation…and he does it all using quantum mechanics as an analogy…but only after he tells John the most fascinating thing about traumatic insemination in bed bugs.
Guys, this is Hank, Hank is awesome.
