News & Press

September 1st, 2021
The relaunch includes new recommendations to equip schools and families with best practices for inclusive physical education and sports amid hostile state landscape.
July 2nd, 2021
(New Haven, Connecticut) - Last week, included in the budget bills (SB 1202 and HB 6689) that Governor Lamont signed into law, was a provision that will fund the creation of a model K-8 curriculum for Connecticut that includes LGBTQ+ Studies.
June 21st, 2021
June 3rd, 2021
The Nevada state legislature has passed Assembly Bill (AB) 261, which creates inclusive curricular standards for K-12 education.
March 19th, 2021
January 29th, 2021
January 13th, 2021
December 23rd, 2020
June 30th, 2020
June 17th, 2020
GLSEN's Executive Director Eliza Byard lays out the concrete actions GLSEN will take to own up to our past mistakes and strive to become an anti-racist organization that centers the voices and leadership of Black and other BIPOC people.
June 17th, 2020
GLSEN's Deputy Executive Director Melanie Willingham-Jaggers explains how the landmark Supreme Court ruling affirming LGBTQ employment protections is also a call to action to fight for Black lives.
June 15th, 2020
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court took a momentous step by affirming federal non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ Americans, including the many LGBTQ educators in K-12 schools who have faced harassment or job loss simply because of who they are.
June 9th, 2020
May 29th, 2020
This spring has been a stark and stinging reminder that racism, and its strategic objective, white supremacy, is as defining a characteristic of the American experience as those ideals upon which we claim to hold our democracy — justice, equality, liberty.
April 10th, 2020
HRC Foundation’s Historically Black Colleges & Universities program to feature student speaker

Announcements on other speakers, honorees and special guests to follow.
April 10th, 2020
New York, NY
The largest student-led protest against the silencing of LGBTQ voices is scheduled for Friday, April 24th.
April 10th, 2020
New York, NY
The COVID-19 epidemic is causing uncertainty in every aspect of our lives, but there is one thing I am still certain about from nearly two decades of leading GLSEN: During times of crisis, our sense of community is what will help us prevail.
April 10th, 2020
Boise, ID
"Public officials must not allow transgender students to be targeted for political gain or in the service of a radical anti-LGBTQ agenda. In this time of national trauma and crisis, we need them to pursue policies that increase connection and community, and support all students.”
January 21st, 2020
New York, NY
GLSEN denounced the harmful religious exemptions to federally funded programs across nine federal agencies recently proposed by the Trump Administration. These new regulations would - among other things - make it easier for schools to qualify for Title IX exemptions as “religious schools,” and make it more difficult for states to protect students from discrimination carried out with public funds. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 protects students from discrimination on the basis of sex, which has been interpreted in recent years to cover discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
October 21st, 2019
Annual Gala Will Take Place on Friday, October 25 at the Beverly Wilshire
GLSEN is proud to announce that Elle Smith (they/them), a high school senior from Round Rock, Texas, will be honored as the 2019 Student Advocate of the Year at this year’s GLSEN Respect Awards – Los Angeles.