Safe Spaces: Making Schools and Communities Welcoming to LGBT Youth
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Safe Spaces: Making Schools and Communities Welcoming to LGBT Youth
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Based on extensive research, recent events, and numerous first-person accounts, this revealing book illuminates both the challenges and triumphs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth, and offers effective strategies for combating LGBT marginalization in our nation's schools and communities.
• More than 80 real-life narratives, drawn from the stories of 100 people, including students, family members, educators, and community leaders
• A "Queerossary" of dozens of key terms, including multiple definitions for terms with specific meanings within the LGBT community
• A bibliography of academic, policy, and news materials related to LGBT issues
• More than 50 action steps readers can use to create safe spaces for LGBT youth
• Reflection Points provide questions and statements that offer readers an opportunity to reflect upon the ways a particular topic or issue relates to their lives
• An appendix listing LGBT resources
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