The 7th annual Alberta Gender Identity & Sexual Orientation Alliance (GSA) Conference was located at Jasper Place High School on Treaty 6 land in Amiskwaciwậskahikan, also known as Edmonton, on Saturday November 17th, 2018 from 9:00am to 4:30pm. The conference aimed to provide support for
The 6th annual Alberta Gender Identity & Sexual Orientation Alliance (GSA) Conference was located at Central Memorial High School on Treaty 7 land in Calgary, on Saturday November 18th 2017. The conference aimed to provide support for Alberta K-12 students and teachers in the formation
This month our blog is featuring a newly developed branch of fYrefly in Schools (a free education program for students in grades 7-12 in Edmonton & area) called Where The Rivers Meet. The program is an iSMSS educational initiative designed by Two-Spirit and LGBTQ+ Indigenous peoples.
This summer, organizers of the Foothills Rural GSA Network were awarded the Alberta Teachers' Association Local Diversity, Equity and Human Rights Award for their work collaborating among students from GSA clubs in multiple rural schools. "The Local Diversity, Equity and Human Rights (DEHR) Award went
On March 22, 2017, Lethbridge School District No. 51 hosted the first GSA Conference called Living Out Loud! The day included keynote speakers, workshops, poetry performance, and a resource fair. During one of the workshops, students produced a zine expressing why GSA's are important to
The Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services (iSMSS) and the Calgary Sexual Health Centre (CSHC) organize the Alberta GSA Conferences each year. In 2016, the 5th Annual Alberta Gender and Sexual-Orientation Alliance (GSA) Conference was held on Saturday November 19th, 2016 at Eastglen High
The SAGA (Sexuality And Gender Alliance) Club is located at Roland Michener Secondary School in Slave Lake. We are a student led group in a school grades 7-12. Although we have a core group of members, we invite and welcome all students at any of our
The Lindsay Thurber Queer-Straight Alliance is dedicated to uniting students of all sexual and gender orientations. Here are a few photos representing the Lindsay Thurber QSA: Question box! The QSA Question Box: The QSA students came up with the idea of creating a question box for
The Wetaskiwin GSA is a safe space group for members and allies of the LGBTQ community. Our GSA meets every second Monday from 6 to 8 p.m. The purpose of our GSA is to engage the entire Wetaskiwin community in LGBT activism and advocacy by
Welcome to the blog! In this part of the Alberta GSA Network website we will be posting submissions from GSAs from schools across Alberta. The purpose of the blog posts is to allow GSAs throughout Alberta a place where they can share their ideas, activities,