Handbooks for educators and students working with gay-straight alliances

Journal of LGBT Youth

Volumn 6, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 317-324

  Meyer, Elizabeth J ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gay straight alliances; GSAs; Homophobia; School groups; Student activism; Teachers

Indexed keywords

EID: 71549137814     PISSN: 19361653     EISSN: 19361661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19361650902962658     Document Type: Article

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