Personal Narrative: The Gay Straight Alliance

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I am in GSA also known as the Gay Straight Alliance. I've never had a vendetta against the gay community and one of my absolute favorite teachers started the club so I attended the first meeting. I’m always up for radical change and a GSA club starting at my school was a definite one. Within twenty minutes of the first meeting I was immediately enticed after hearing so many stories. I realized just how serious the issues are that the lgbt community faces, so I decided I was going to join and I was going to make a difference. 40% of all homeless youth are lgbt, 1 and 12 transexual people will be murdered, and most gay people have felt discrimination in their life based on their sexuality, something they cannot change about themselves. When ignorant

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