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Resources for Students
Mental & Emotional Wellbeing
Be True & Be You: A Basic Mental Health Guide for LGBTQ+ Youth
(From Each Mind Matters, California's Mental Health Movement) This guide is a valuable resource for any young person who identifies as LGBTQ+ who may be seeking information regarding mental health, an ...
Youth FAQ
(From Gender Spectrum) These FAQs are specific to youth delve into questioning one's gender, other social identities & their affect on gender, talking about gender w/ family, dysphoria, & more ...
Coming Out: A Handbook for LGBTQ Young People
(From The Trevor Project) This handbook is all encompassing, informative, & incredibly affirming for any LGBTQ young people, wherever they may be in their coming out process.
21 YA Books with Trans and Nonbinary Characters
(From Epic Reads)Stories about transgender and nonbinary teenagers are important and necessary in YA fiction, full stop. While there are certainly more books available now about trans and nonbinary te ...
LGBTQ+ Youth Guide: Coming Out Safely
(From Live Out Loud) We all deserve the right to live our lives genuinely, completely, and honestly. Race, ethnicity, language, religion, culture, gender expression, attraction to others, and gender i ...
Learning Resources
Documentary: Growing Up Trans
(From PBS) Just a generation ago, it was adults, not kids, who changed genders. But today, many children are transitioning, too — at younger and younger ages. Told from the perspective of parents, doc ...
Booklet: OurTrans Loves Ones
(From PFLAG) OurTrans Loves Ones: Question and Answers for Parents, Families and Friends of People who are Transgender and Gender ExpansiveThis guide focuses on providing support for families and frie ...
Resources for LGBTQ Youth by State
(From Lambda Legal) This resource provides a brief description, contact information, mailing information, of places in every state that are valuable resources for LGBTQ+ youth & people.
Starting a GSA
(From GLSEN) This resource aims to support new and established Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) and similar groups that are working to make schools safer and more inclusive for all students.
LGBTQ+ Scholarship Resources
(From Affordable Colleges) There are many colleges who want to cultivate a diverse student body by providing scholarships for LGBTQ students, as well as LGBTQ professional, regional and leadership org ...
Making Gay History
(From Eric Marcus) The Making Gay History podcast mines Eric Marcus’s decades-old audio archive of rare interviews — conducted for his award-winning oral history of the LGBTQ civil rights movement — t ...
Film: Disclosure
(From Netflix) According to a study from GLAAD, over 80% of Americans don't personally know someone who's transgender. That means most people learn about trans people from the ways they're depicted in ...
GSA Activity Guides
(From Live Out Loud)Guides produced for GSA clubs, on topics including Queer History, Gaining and Maintaining Club Membership, Disability Jus ...
Campus Pride Index
(From Campus Pride Index)This is a search tool for LGBTQ students to see ratings of colleges and universities and how LGBTQ friendly they are based on their inclusive policies and procedures. ...
Learning Resources
(From National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center) This organization has incredible resources surrounding health and wellbeing, be it physical health or mental health. Information regarding LGBTQ+ youth ...
Films on Gender
(From PFLAG) While transgender representation has too often tended to range from nonexistent to dismal, this isn’t and hasn’t always been the case. The films listed here include both narrative and doc ...
LGBTQ+ History Lessons
(From Dr. Eric Cervini) "First of its kind" queer history lessons presented by queer historian Dr. Eric Cervini. Exploring how queer people have existed and strived throughout history. Sig ...
Transgender Children & Youth, Understanding the Basics
(From HRC) It is important to make distinctions between instances where “kids are being kids” and when they’re asserting things about themselves that are critical to their identity and development -- ...
When We Rise
About The Series (From ABC) When We Rise is a docudrama miniseries created by award-winning filmmaker Dustin Lance Black. It examines 45-years of history within the LGBTQ+ battle for civil rights ...
Transgender Resources
(From GLADD) Access transgender resources, including:Transgender FAQ: Learn more about transgender people and the issues important to themTips for Allies: Learn more about how to be an ally to transge ...
Gender Spectrum Resources Library
(From Gender Spectrum)A resource hub for youth, parents, educators, and more that allows you to select the category you'd like to explore - vast information on gender. Access Resource ...
Finding Community
CenterLink
(From CenterLink) CenterLink is an international nonprofit organization and member-based association of LGBTQ centers and other LGBTQ organizations serving their local and regional communities. They c ...