Webinars

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  • LGBTQ+ Advocacy in Special Education
  • School Mental Health Professionals Supporting LGBTQ Youth
  • Trans and GNC Student Experiences
  • Supporting LGBTQ Students of Color
  • LGBTQ+ Educators - Out and Proud at School
  • Back to School in a Pandemic: LGBTQ+ Student Safety

Films

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• For They Know Not What They Do (2019) - From the director of the acclaimed FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO and winner of six festival Audience Awards comes FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO, a new documentary that explores the intersection of religion, sexual orientation and gender identity in current-day America. The arrival of marriage equality was seen by many as the pinnacle achievement of the march toward full equality for LGBTQ people. But for many on the Right, it was the last straw, and their public backlash has been swift, severe and successful. In collaboration with religious conservatives, politicians are invoking both the Bible and the U.S. Constitution in their campaigns for the 'religious freedom' to legally discriminate. By telling the stories of four families struggling with these issues, the film offers healing and understanding to those caught in the crosshairs of scripture, sexuality, and identity.
• Real Boy (2016) - An intimate story of a family in transition. As 19-year-old Bennett Wallace navigates sobriety, adolescence, and the evolution of his gender identity, his mother makes her own transformation from resistance to acceptance of her trans son. Along the way, both mother and son find support in their communities, reminding us that families are not only given, but chosen.
• Growing Up Coy(2015) - In a highly conservative Colorado town, a pink-loving, pig-tailed six-year-old girl named Coy becomes the unlikely poster child for transgender rights, in a 2013 landmark case that is reverberating in state courts across the country. Although she was born as a boy in a set of triplets, Coy's gender identity was evident even as a toddler, leading her parents, Kathryn and Jeremy, to accept her early on as the girl she wished to be. At first their school is very supportive, but midway through Coy's first-grade year, they ban her from using the girls' bathroom. Infuriated and fearing for their child's safety, Kathryn and Jeremy decide to fight the school's decision (which defies Colorado's anti-discrimination law), despite the further attention they know it will draw to Coy's gender status. They engage the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, led by civil rights attorney Michael D. Silverman, who take their case, and the international media firestorm it generates is fast and often extremely furious.
• Teens Like Phil (2012) -Teens Like Phil explores the complicated and painful circumstances surrounding a relationship in an effort to better understand the roots of the bullying epidemic. Phil, a shy, insecure teenager growing up in an affluent suburb, is trapped in the painful throes of adolescence, while simultaneously struggling to come to terms with his sexuality. At his elite private school, Phil is picked on by his former friend and love interest, Adam, who frequently lashes out with violence against Phil and enjoys humiliating him in the locker room. But Phil is not the only victim of abuse; Adam is regularly assaulted by his older brother, Nick. Phil's home life isn't much better. His mother is oblivious to his struggles, and his father resents him for being insufficiently masculine. As the bullying intensifies, both at school and at home, the back story of Phil and Adam's ill-fated relationship is revealed. Filmmakers Dominic Haxton and David Rosler's bold short film examines bullying in a way never before captured on screen--a must see for teens and adults struggling to come to terms with the realities of youth struggles, and the cyclical nature of bullying.
• Creating Gender Inclusive Schools (2016) - What happens when you bring gender training to a public elementary school? In CREATING GENDER INCLUSIVE SCHOOLS the Peralta Elementary School in Oakland CA demonstrates the power of an open and honest conversation about gender.

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