GLBTQ Online High School provides support to the parents and families of our students as well as the students themselves.
This critical feature of our school provides parents with safe
forums to share stories, ideas, solutions and just plain friendship with others
that have similar joys, challenges and questions. Parents who are new to the
experience of having a GLBTQ teen can solicit advice from other parents or from
school staff.
Discussion groups include:
- Parents of gays & lesbians
- Parents of bisexuals
- Parents of transgender individuals
- Questioning Youth and their Uncertainty
- Coming Out as a Family
- GLBTQ and Religion
- Health & Wellness
The resources below are just a few of the many available to parents and families of GLBTQ youth.
GLBTQ & related organizations
GLAAD: Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
GLSEN: Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network
International Foundation for Gender Education
Intersex Society of North America
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund
National Center for Transgender Equality
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
National Youth Advocacy Coalition
OutProud: The National Coalition for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth
PFLAG: Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League
Recommended websites, books, films and other resources
GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Queer & Questioning Teens. Book available from any online bookseller. Kelly Huegel, Free Spirit Press, 2003.
Red without Blue. Film about a family dealing with a transgender identical twin as one, a boy named Alex, transitions to a woman named Clair. Available through Netflix or online booksellers.