Peer-to-Peer LGBTQ+ Education in the Health Classroom: Oregon High School's Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) Club Educates Classmates

Henning, Jarret; Holder, Rebecca; Hosnell, Ellie; Kiffel, Harrison; Lebwohl, Lauren; Mcreavy, Caitlin

doi:10.5406/femteacher.27.1.0080

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“…As public knowledge, perception, and acceptance of gay and lesbian individuals has expanded over the last decade, increasingly, the social landscape of GSA clubs is too changing. In recent years, GSAs have begun to mobilize their efforts by spanning their membership boundaries and objects to respond to the needs of transgender students (Chong et al, 2019;Henning et al, 2016).…”

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The push for transgender inclusion: Exploring boundary spanning in the gay–straight alliance

Sutherland

2019

Sociology Compass

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Gay–straight alliance (or gender‐sexuality alliance; GSA) is a high‐school based club aimed at providing a safer environment for sexual and gender minority youth as well as their straight allies. Yet, as a club historically rooted in addressing sexual orientation‐related concerns, less attention has been given to understanding the changing relational dynamics of internal GSA activities aimed at expanding membership boundaries through the promotion of transgender inclusivity. I address this by bridging existing scholarship on GSAs, social movements, and the sociology of culture to showcase the impact boundary‐spanning strategies are having on GSA mobilization, in‐group solidarity, and external political and social activism. My findings reveal that membership boundary negotiations around gender diversity issues are shifting the social landscape of these clubs. Emerging barriers that impede boundary‐spanning efforts are also highlighted and discussed. More broadly, I generate new theoretical insights into how boundary spanning can shape political and social activism as well as offer promising future research directions in this area.

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Section: Gsa and Mobilizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The push for transgender inclusion: Exploring boundary spanning in the gay–straight alliance

Sutherland

2019

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Peer-to-Peer LGBTQ+ Education in the Health Classroom: Oregon High School's Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) Club Educates Classmates

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The push for transgender inclusion: Exploring boundary spanning in the gay–straight alliance

The push for transgender inclusion: Exploring boundary spanning in the gay–straight alliance

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