What is a GSA Summit?
Who comes?
What do you get out of doing a summit?
What do you do at the summit?
Past summit topics
GSA summit request form
What is a GSA Summit?
A two hour workshop, discussion and group of activities at your school on the topic of your choice
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Who comes?
Usually about 30 Students from your school and from GSAs around your area
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What do you get out of doing a summit?
- The chance to meet other cool students from your area
- The opportunity to put on a activity that your GSA members will have fun planning
- Looks good on a resume or job application
- It’s really fun!
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What do you do at the Summit?
- True Colors brings food and drinks
- You (with our help) do some really cool opening introduction activities so everyone gets to know each other
- We put together topic presentations or discussions on subjects of your choice (click here for a list of past summit topics)
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Past Summit Topics:
- S/he loves me, s/he loves me not: healthy dating relationships
- Keeping your GSA alive, lively and productive
- Setting up school safe zones
- Cool ideas for running GSA meetings
- Planning a protest or other direct action
- LGBT Movie screenings
- HIV/STD prevention and safer sex
- Meetings for meeting leaders. Talk about meetings + hosting them and having effective turnout + awareness
- What it means to be ally
- How is the LGBTQIA Community portrayed in the media?
- I’m Beautiful, Dammit! Talking about Body image
- Creating an LGBT student bill of rights
- Working with conservative school administrations or communities
- Gender Images and the Media
- Intersection of “isms” – exploring racism and homophobia
- Running a successful meeting
- LGBT and ally friendly careers, resumes and interview strategies
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Click here for information on how your school can host a GSA summit.
