Challenging the Sounds of Silence
A Qualitative Study of Gay–Straight Alliances and School Reform Efforts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9729666 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maralee Mayberry (University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA, corresponding author), Tiffany Chenneville (0000-0001-5598-9387, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, FL, USA), Sean E Currie (University of South Florida), Sean Currie (University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 307-339 |
| Publication date | 2013-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Education and Urban Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-1245 • E-ISSN: 1552-3535 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0013124511409400 |
| OpenAlex | W2029630652 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 41 |
We explore the efficacy of one increasingly familiar strategic intervention designed to disrupt antigay school environments—Gay–Straight Alliances (GSAs). Despite the increasing popularity of GSAs, there has been little research on the ways in which they do—and do not—impact school climate. The ubiquity of antigay and homophobic attitudes throughout schools highlights the importance of documenting the advantages and disadvantages of this tactical intervention. Using research with GSA student members, GSA advisors, high school principals, and district-level administrators from a case study of high schools, we identify school practices that either support or destabilize antigay school environments: Silence and passive resistance, the provision of safe spaces, and attempts and challenges to breaking the silence. We then explore the limitations of current efforts to create safe-school environments for sexual minority youth and end by discussing how systemic school reform efforts could be used to transform the broader social context
Context (archaeology · Intervention (counseling · Pedagogy · Political science · Popularity · Public relations · Resistance (ecology · Silence · Sociology · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Homelessness and Social Issues · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Queering student perspectives
Exploring How U.S. High School Staff Support, Protect, and Affirm Sexual and Gender Minority Youth
A rapid realist review of universal interventions to promote inclusivity and acceptance of diverse sexual and gender identities in schools
Gay-Straight Alliances
Practices for Improving Secondary School Climate
Gay-Straight Alliances are Associated with Lower Levels of School-Based Victimization of LGBTQ+ Youth
What Reduces Sexual Minority Stress? A Review of the Intervention “Toolkit”
GSA members' experiences with a structured program to promote well-being
Peer victimization and suicidality among LGBTQ youth
Fostering safe and inclusive spaces for LGBTQ students
Homonormativity and celebrating diversity
Thinking whimsically
From an ethic of care to queer resistance”
Expanding the Meaning of Social Education
School Climate & Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescent Mental Health
Critical Pedagogy Enacted in the Gay–Straight Alliance
You’re Moving a Frickin’ Big Ship”
You Know, the Church Has Never Agreed on Everything
The GSA Difference
LGBT people and suicidality in youth
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
Compulsory Heterosexuality
Talk About Sex
Describing Roles that Gay-Straight Alliances Play in Schools
Beyond Risk
The Impact of Belonging to a High School Gay/Straight Alliance
A critique of research on sexual-minority youths
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence (1980)
Gay–Straight Alliance Advisors
Identification Without Intervention
Whose Problem is This
Grassroots Meet Homophobia
The Sound of Silence
Queer pedagogy, educational practice and lesbian and gay youth
Gay rights and school policy
Gay-Straight Alliances
Youth Empowerment and High School Gay-Straight Alliances
Suicidal Ideation and Attempts among Sexual Minority Youths Receiving Social Services
Standing for Just and Right Decisions
Educational Equity for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Queer/Questioning Students
Does Anyone Have a Band-Aid? Anti-Homophobia Discourses and Pedagogical Impossibilities
Sexuality, Schooling, and Adolescent Females
This was my hell
Negotiating a Research Protocol for Studying School-Based Gay and Lesbian Issues
Constructions of LGBT Youth
Sexual Minority Youth and Suicide Risk
The Stigmatization of the Gay and Lesbian Adolescent
Developmental Issues and Their Resolution for Gay and Lesbian Adolescents
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
Gay-Straight Alliances and School Experiences of Sexual Minority Youth
"The Ideology of "Fag
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,54 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2023 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |