Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network

(415) 552-4229

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Human Rights Non Profit

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About Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network

GSA Network is a next-generation LGBTQ racial and gender justice organization that empowers and trains queer, trans and allied youth leaders to advocate, organize, and mobilize an intersectional movement for safer schools and healthier communities.

Our overall strategy for fighting for educational justice is to work with grassroots, youth-led groups and GSAs, empowering them to educate their schools and communities, advocate for just policies that protect LGBTQ youth from harassment and violence, and organize in coalition with other youth groups across identity lines to address broader issues of oppression.

All of our work with students focuses on leadership development and activism that prioritizes building alliances not only across sexual orientation and gender identity lines, but also across race, ethnicity, and class lines, and our resources and trainings are designed to facilitate coalition building.

GSA Network is working to strengthen the national movement-building capacity at the intersection of LGBTQ+ youth organizing and racial and gender justice in schools, and develop the next generation of LGBTQ+ leaders, particularly low-income youth and youth of color in California and nationally.

GSA Network includes GSA Network of California, which connects more than 1,100 clubs across the state, and the National Association of GSA Networks, which unites 40 statewide networks of GSA clubs. We also support student-led campaigns through GSAsUnite! (unite.gsanetwork.org), an online campaign and petition platform for trans and queer youth across the country.