Subject: strictly fyi: It Gets Better & Make It Better, Reteaching Gender & Sexuality, Talking About Suicide and other key topics
From: "Reis, Beth" <Beth.Reis@kingcounty.gov>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:58:57 -0700
To: NEWS@safeschoolscoalition.org

Dear Safe Schools Coalition Members and Friends:
 
(1) If you haven't looked lately, take a peek at the "It Gets Better" web site.
(2) Don't want to wait to get out of school for it to get better? Check out the "Make It Better" project.
(3) Show this free 3-minute video to your class, your school, your student government group, your faculty: Reteaching Gender & Sexuality
(4) See GLAAD's awesome Talking About series (for the media and the rest of us) including Talking About Suicide and LGBT Populations
 
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(1) If you haven't looked lately, take a peek at the "It Gets Better" web site.
 
You will be blown away at all the folks who've made videos. Go to www.itgetsbetter.org/
 
HELP NEEDED: Lobby Dan Savage to add the Safe Schools Coalition to the beneficiaries of his site. Write him: mailto:info@itgetsbetter.org and pass the word on Twitter and Facebook! Tell Dan to donate some of his proceeds to the Safe Schools Coalition. Tell him what the Coalition means to you.
 
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(2) Don't want to wait to get out of school for it to get better? Check out the "Make It Better" project.
 
Learn what you can do to make your school awesome NOW. It's sponsored by the GSA Network! Go to http://www.makeitbetterproject.org/
 
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(3) Show this free 3-minute video to your class, your school, your student government group, your faculty: Reteaching Gender & Sexuality
 
From the youth activists at "Put This on the {MAP}" … it's a great way to reframe things if a training audience seems to be pathologizing queer youth, seeing them as one big problem instead of as potentially happy, well-adjusted human beings. 
 
Go to http://www.putthisonthemap.org/education/reteaching-gender-and-sexuality
 
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(4) See GLAAD's awesome Talking About series (for the media and the rest of us) including Talking About Suicide and LGBT Populations
 
Learn how not to inadvertently encourage copy-cat suicide attempts and how to explain the problem of hate crimes. All these short, downloadable pamphlets are VERY useful for LGBTQ folks and allies who are about to give an interview to the press.
 
See them all here: http://www.glaad.org/talkingabout
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