http://coachellaunincorporated.org/2016/02/29/lgbtqi-youth-find-support-gay-straight-alliance-summit/ Incorporating the Voices of the Eastern Coachella Valley Mon, 23 May 2016 09:02:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3.4 http://coachellaunincorporated.org/2016/02/29/lgbtqi-youth-find-support-gay-straight-alliance-summit/#comment-90269 Sat, 19 Mar 2016 21:51:48 +0000 http://coachellaunincorporated.org/?p=4247#comment-90269 […] Coachella’s Gay Straight Alliance helped to host a leadership summit last month at Coachella Valley High School; the event focused on how to foster greater understanding of LGBTQI issues among community members. Youth shared their coming-out stories, while adults learned about proper gender pronouns and the gender spectrum, and how to be an ally to the youth represented. “Being a teenager can be hard, but being a teenager who is questioning their sexual identity can be even harder. That is especially the case in communities where such topics are rarely discussed openly.” Read a story about the summit on Coachella Unincorporated. […]

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