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Alongside movement legal organizations we back legislative campaigns, supporting youth as they speak out against harmful laws and policies that threaten their safety and rights.

Our Strategy

Devising Freedom, launched in 2022, is our organizational strategy that spans from 2022-2030 across two election years in the United States as a mandate to continue to deepen and expand our youth-led power-building.

Resourcing Clubs

Youth Freedom Fund is one of the ways GSA youth leaders can lead their own experiments with building community-centered models. This campaign directly funds GSA clubs across the country to support student organizing, event planning, mutual aid, and community building.

Reimagining Learning

Through STAR Freedom School, we are sustaining the intergenerational learning safety net that has always existed and persists.

GSAs Build Power

Genders & Sexualities Alliances (GSAs) are student-led clubs that unite TQ2S+ and allied youth to build community, support one another, and organize for change.

Stargayzing or world-building: Cultivating the political will to move beyond all forms of captivity through intergenerational wonder, creativity

We organize GSAs, empowering them to educate their schools and communities, advocate for just policies that protect trans, queer and Two Spirit youth from harassment and violence, and build alliances not only across sexual orientation and gender identity lines, but also across race, ethnicity, and class.

GSA youth-rooted organizing is transforming communities, and building power for the next generation of TQ2S+ youth.

Transforming Learning Spaces

We support LGBTQ+ youth organizers across the country to take action and create change at all levels, from school-based campaigns that impact individual school districts to national days of action that unite GSAs for racial, gender, and educational justice.

Shifting Narratives

Our work elevates trans, queer, and Two-Spirit youth voices by sharing stories, challenging stereotypes, and amplifying the intergenerational lived wisdom of our people.

Across these networks, we provide training, leadership pathways, and shared strategy rooted in racial, gender, and educational justice.

National School

Through our political education curriculum, STAR Freedom School and Gender Justice Leadership Programs (GJLP), our trans youth narrative power collaboration with Transgender Law Center, we resource young leaders and grassroots partners through political education curriculum, cultural organizing, and leadership skills that build collective power.

National Campaign

We support youth-led action through GSAsUnite!, our online campaign and petition platform that powers local and national organizing, amplifies youth demands, and connects TQ2S+ youth across states to fight for safety, dignity, and structural change in their schools and communities.

In 2020, youth leaders pushed forward the Police Free Schools movement as we expanded programs like the Two-Spirit Initiative and Gender Justice Leadership Programs. Our intergenerational board includes young leaders and adult allies from across the country.

Today, we carry forward a legacy of youth power, building a future where every TQ2S+ young person can lead with autonomy, dignity, and delight.

In 1999, youth leaders helped pass the California Student Safety and Violence Prevention Act and formed our first Youth Council.

We also steward GSA Network of California, connecting over 1,100 GSA clubs and sustaining one of the largest youth-led LGBTQ+ organizing ecosystems in the nation. Either youth members or advisors can handle registration.

Community GSAs – Don’t have a school club? Community GSAs get all the same resources and support.

No problem! Young people can start or join a GSA and access resources, trainings, and community support—no school affiliation required.

Feeling inspired? It can also protect students from harassment based on sexual orientation or gender identity, and improve school climates for all students in the long-term.

Schools remain one of the most important sites of cultural and social change for young people, and GSAs create spaces where TQ2S+ youth can be seen, supported, and heard.

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Administration giving you trouble?

Reach out to us. We’ve helped thousands of students navigate challenges and get their GSAs up and running. No student should have to fight for their right to gather alone.

Email us:info@gsanetwork.org

For International Schools

If your school is outside the U.S., please note that we’re unable to offer technical support or send printed resources.

Registration is the same and can be completed by a member.

Why Register?

When you register your GSA, you access:

  • STAR Freedom School curricula – training resources designed specifically for GSA clubs to build powerful programming and leadership skills!
  • GSA Days of Action – our general assemblies for GSA Day 4 Gender Justice and GSA Day 4 Racial Justice offer guidance and calls to action on organizing locally to create change!
  • Youth Freedom Fund – our mini-grant program allows you to apply for direct funding to resource your clubs, campaigns, and events!
  • Stardial Newsletter – a monthly portal into our national TQ2S+ youth movement.

    These clubs can meet anywhere – LGBTQ centers, libraries, coffee shops, or even your living room.

    Our History

    We began in San Francisco in 1998, when LGBTQ+ youth came together to support GSA clubs and fight for safe schools. Over the next decade, we deepened our commitment to racial and gender justice, opened new offices in the South and Midwest, and in 2015 shifted to a Co-Executive Director model led by LGBTQ+ people of color.

    Across the country, legislation and school policies are increasingly banning discussions of LGBTQ+ identities or limiting student clubs, making GSAs one of the few safe spaces where youth can find community and resources.

    Beyond schools, GSAs influence broader culture—shaping how peers, teachers, and communities understand gender and sexuality. They help students navigate challenges, build leadership skills, and organize for safer, more inclusive learning environments.

    GSAs are especially critical as attacks on LGBTQ+ youth intensify.