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Students participate in GLSEN’s Day of Silence, with one student holding a sign about ending harassment and a group displaying a rainbow “Day of Silence” anti-bullying poster
Opinion

As Day of Silence turns 30, LGBTQ+ students are stuck in 1996

Opinion: Thirty years after the first Day of Silence, new policies and rising hostility are pushing LGBTQ+ young people back into the same unsafe conditions many thought were left in the past, writes Glisten CEO Melanie Willingham-Jaggers.

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Opinion

Here's why GLSEN plans to transform and relaunch amid attacks on LGBTQ+ youth

"GLSEN, like many of our peer organizations and the communities we serve, is not immune to the widespread and sudden changes moving swiftly over the horizon," writes Melanie Willingham-Jaggers.

Tim Walz speaking at HRC dinner a sign in opposition to a policy that the Chino Valley school board outting transgender students JD Vance attends Charity Day 2024 hosted by The Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund
Opinion

The fight for safe and inclusive schools: What teachers and students want answered in the VP debate

This debate offers an opportunity for candidates to speak directly to the future of our country—our students. Will they commit to protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ youth, writes GLSEN's Melanie Willingham-Jaggers.