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Save the Date for the Lieutenant Governor's Conference on LGBT Youth
Sponsored by Gay Straight Alliance for Safe Schools and Diverse & Resilient
Date: March 5, 2010
Time: 9:30 - 4:15 (registration begins at 8:45)
Location: UW-Oshkosh
Participants: School and Community professionals who work with LGBT youth, university students who may work with youth in the future, and middle school and high school youth
Speakers: Lieutenant Governor Barbara Lawton
Motivational Speaker and Consultant Paul Wesslemann
Local experts from GSAFE and Diverse & Resilient
Skilled Workshop Leaders
The movie "Straightlaced" from Groundspark will be shown the night before.
>>> Register Online
>>>Download Registration flyer
Please contact Gay Straight Alliance for Safe Schools if you have any questions:
608-661-4141 or email Cindy Crane at cindyc@gsaforsafeschools.org.
Welcome, Monica Adams, to the GSAFE staff as our Middle School Program Assistant
 Thanks to a three-year grant from the Queer Youth Fund, we were able to hire Monica Adams as our half-time Middle School
Program Assistant. We were looking for someone who was bi-cultural, fluent in Spanish, and had experience working with
youth. We found all of these gifts in Monica, who will be focusing on expanding our Bystanders to Allies (b2a) program
in middle schools in Dane County as well as help us with middle school GSA initiatives. We will be asking her to use her
talents for leading workshops at our statewide high school gatherings as well.
So what does Monica have to say about herself? I was born and raised in Milwaukee, WI where there is a large and
prevalent Latino community. I was very attracted to the people, the culture, and the language as I realized there were
many similarities between us. Quickly I found myself grasping the language and gaining acceptance, as I went from being
viewed as Monica, to Mona la morena (dark Mona, doll). From an early age, I began to organize within the Latino
community working on outwardly political issues such as immigration, to challenging subtle forms of machismo (misogyny).
One of the most influential and inspirational experiences I ever had is in the Latino community where I discovered the
marimacha (lesbian or tomboy) women, whom I love and respect, who discovered me long before I discovered myself.
Monica has attending college at UW-Madison and went through training to be a community organizer via the Apprentice
Organizers Project, the same agency from which our program assistant, Tim Michael, hails. Along with working at GSAFE,
she is employed part-time as the Queer Youth of Color/African-American Organize at Freedom Inc.
GSAFE Youth Scholarship Application Now Available – Deadline February 22, 2010!
Scholarships to be presented at May 8 Celebration of Leadership
The Gay Straight Alliance for Safe Schools (GSAFE) Youth Scholarship awards four high school seniors $1000 each. The recipients of these awards will have demonstrated a commitment to promoting respect for all, especially in a school setting, with an emphasis on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues (LGBT). This scholarship is open to all Wisconsin high school seniors, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.
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3rd Annual Walk/Run/Eat Our Biggest Ever!
On Sunday, October 11th, more than 250 people "joined the movement" and walked, ran, and ate on Madison's beautiful
east side. Thank you to all our volunteers, Pacesetters, and sponsors for making it such a fantastic event. And a huge
thanks to Queen Anne's Catering for once again providing the "eat" that everyone loves so much.
To see photos from the event and to download the runners' results, click here.
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GSAFE proudly thanks our donors!
Alliant Energy Foundation
Brico Fund
Brighter Futures
By Youth for Youth
New Harvest Foundation
Diverse & Resilient
Madison Metropolitan School District
Queer Youth Fund
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
We are proud members of Community Shares of Wisconsin!
Thank you Celebration of Leadership Sponsors!
Wartmann Chandler Appraisal Associates
Alliant Energy
Associated Bank
CUNA Mutual Foundation
Cullen Weston Pines & Bach
WORT
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