I don't see why there would be a problem with having an LGBT club on campus. It is a club that would promote the level of acceptance our school should have. I do believe that students at Chinquapin who are LGBT would greatly benefit from having a club. This would also help students who are not LGBT become more accepting and continue to grow the family feeling we have at this school.
My plan for the club is to help students find peace with themselves. Hopefully the club could transform into a support group that would help students talk to their families, if the student wishes. I most importantly want to educate about the LGBT community. Of course I don't have expert knowledge, but this would be a learning experience for me too.
I plan to partner with my best friend and classmate, Eric Volpe. We will run the club together and we will be working on promoting a more positive LGBT environment. We have come up with a schedule we think will work. We will have meetings twice a month starting in January and ending in May. The first meeting of every month should be informational, learning, planning!
The second meeting should be about talking to each other, comfort, family, help if necessary.
We want to have the informational sessions about coming out to your friends, to your family, about protection, about disease, about laws against or for, about rights, about hate crimes, about awareness, about awareness days.
We also plan to do the AIDS walk, and the candle lighting! My classmate and I are excited and know this is what we want to contribute to our community.
I think you should plan out how to introduce this subject to the school carefully before you jump ahead in making a club and meetings. What I would find useful would be a informative talk with the student body (circle ceremony) but not a lecture but a stating facts, asking questions, getting audience involved, etc. Once the idea has been introduced then you can impose an option to continue such conversation by joining your group. I honestly think that you will not get heard if you just spring on a new club that just has a title and no introduction. That's just my opinion but hope to see you develop this group that will help our environment be more open and understating.
ReplyDeleteDo you mean "understanding" at the end?
ReplyDeleteWhat do you need to do in order to establish a club at Chinquapin? Have you done this?