MassResistance Special 10-part Report:

Why LGBT “GSA Clubs” must be banned from all public schools.

Part 2: How GSAs get into schools across the country

National LGBT groups, dishonest talking points, government involvement, and even taxpayer funding.

November 7, 2025

GSAs - school LGBT "clubs" - are the result of a sophisticated nationally orchestrated (and well-financed) campaign.

How do GSA clubs (“Gay Straight Alliance” or “Genders and Sexualities Alliance”) get into thousands of schools across America, Canada, and beyond?

Not long ago, school clubs that celebrate and promote homosexuality, transgenderism, and similar depraved behaviors would never have been allowed anywhere. And no students would have gotten involved with one. Now these clubs are embraced by schools. Even conservative parents (shockingly) insist that they should not be touched (apparently afraid to challenge “gay rights”)!

How did this happen? The answer lies in a sophisticated and aggressive decades-long campaign by national LGBT organizations, along with help from state governments and other groups.

Early difficulties starting out in Massachusetts

The first GSA club was formed in 1988 by high school history teacher Kevin Jennings at Concord Academy in Concord, Massachusetts. In 1990, Jennings and some other “gay” teachers formed the group that eventually became GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network) to organize GSAs in schools across Massachusetts – and later across the country.

Soon after that, pro-gay Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld formed the state-funded Governors Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth to help push GSAs and the LGBT agenda into the state’s public schools.

But they immediately had a big problem: homosexuality was viewed very negatively. Schools were reluctant to bring in that agenda, and the Massachusetts Legislature did not want to fund the promotion of homosexuality to children.

Dishonest talking points to intimidate and confuse opposition

How could they “sell” homosexuality in schools? GLSEN came up with an answer: Blatant, hardcore propaganda. It started with rebranding the purpose of GSAs to be “safety” – making all schools safe for everyone.

It was wildly successful. In 1995 Jennings confirmed that strategy in a speech titled “Winning the Culture War” at the LGBT group Human Rights Campaign’s national convention.

Jennings described how he “framed the issue” to get the Massachusetts Legislature to fund the homosexual agenda in schools. An emotion-based “safety” campaign had swayed the legislators. Students were brought in to testify how they were “bullied” and called names at school. False statistics about suicide were touted.

As Jennings explained in that speech:

(The outrageous irony is that there is nothing “safe” about homosexuality and transgenderism. It may lead to suicide, not prevent it. And no child is safe around an adult who wants to promote these sexual perversions to children.)

Building on that, national LGBT activists soon concocted additional dishonest talking points to intimidate and silence opponents to GSAs:

• GSAs are not about “sex” at all. They are about letting LGBTQ students be “who they are” and feel secure in their true “identities.”
• The clubs provide vital “social” networks that support LGBTQ students’ sense of belonging at school.
• Gay and lesbian students are at higher risk of suicide and need “safe spaces” in school.
• This is about fighting discrimination (“homophobia”) and protecting everyone’s rights.
• GSAs create an inclusive school environment that’s good for the whole school.
• The clubs are protected by the First Amendment and the federal Equal Access Act.
• Opponents are simply bigots and haters.

Even though these talking points are obvious lies, they have been very effective in silencing opponents, including parents, school staff, and school board members.

Sophisticated organizing techniques by the well-funded national LGBT groups

By the late 1990s, GLSEN moved its headquarters to New York City and had become a multimillion-dollar national LGBT powerhouse. GLSEN’s mission to spread the LGBT agenda to America’s schools has been lavishly funded by corporate America, including: Wells Fargo, KPMG, Cisco, IBM, Pepsi, Nickelodeon, Netflix, Goldman Sachs, AT&T, Citibank, Disney, TJX, JP Morgan, Barclay's Capital, General Motors, Target, Comcast, the NBA, Coca-Cola, Pet Smart, Accenture, HP, Microsoft, Toyota, Intel, Oracle, PayPal, and Samsung.

GLSEN provides extensive resources for GSAs and their range of LGBT activities.

GLSEN provides everything it can for GSAs can take over a school.

On the west coast, GSA Network was started by homosexual activists in San Francisco in 1998 to spread GSAs into California schools. Their funding has come from foundations and wealthy donors.

Adult activists from the national organization GSA Network march in San Francisco pride parade. These are the people who are organizing kids in your schools. [Photo: GSA Network]

Both groups developed sophisticated methods for pushing GSAs into unsuspecting schools. Soon GSAs were virtually everywhere in the US. The GSAs get their organizing resources, training ideas, activity ideas, programs, and slick propaganda material from these major national LGBT organizations.

This booklet instructs the adult GSA organizers in best practives.

This chart from GSA Network teaches adult GSA organizers about one of the less publicized goals of GSAs: creating change in the community.

GSA clubs give the impression of being “organic.” But they are not “organic” by any means. The national groups’ online “organizing” materials have always been carefully designed to make it appear as if students actually initiate, organize, and run the clubs at their schools.

But our observation has been that it’s a radical staffer – teacher, guidance counselor, librarian, etc. – who decides to bring in a GSA club and works with the national groups to organize it. The staffer will use a few students as “fronts” to make it appear that it’s student-organized.

Fairly prominent on the GLSEN website, this document outlines steps for students to start a GSA. But that's rarely how it actually happens.

Once a GSA is up and running, GLSEN has instructions for both teachers and students in recruiting vulnerable kids in the school to be club members.

Targeting vulnerable students as club members – and turning them into activists

As part of the GSA club building process, vulnerable kids are targeted and recruited. It’s especially effective to focus on those who feel like they “don’t fit in,” have underlying emotional or mental health challenges, or are on the autism spectrum. (This belies the myth that children can truly or innately be gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. These identities are being foisted on them.)

Besides being indoctrinated in LGBT behaviors and ideology, students are tutored in LGBT activism. Thus, it’s not just school staffers or state education departments who are now spreading and legitimizing the LGBTQ+ ideas. That is also accomplished by child activists: students influencing students through the GSAs and their sponsored events in a captive school environment.

Organizing and funding help by state government agencies

The general LGBT insurgence into government and society, especially on the state level, has not ignored GSAs. They make it as easy as possible for schools to implement GSAs and difficult to keep them out.

In 1995, the same year as Kevin Jennings’ “Winning the Culture War” speech (and just two years after his “safe schools” report to the Governor’s Commission), the Massachusetts Department of Education was up and running with its promotion of GSAs. Here is its 1995 publication, “Gay/Straight Alliances; A Student Guide”:

The Massachusetts Department of Education led the way in the 1990s for other states across the country.

Several states have Department of Education policies specifically supporting GSAs and “safe school” programs in schools. Massachusetts still has its state-funded “Commission on LGBTQ Youth” which promotes radicalism in schools around the state, and its legislature continues to fund LGBT “youth” programs.

Members of the Massachusetts Commission on LGBT Youth wave to GSA students marching in a "Youth Pride" parade in downtown Boston. The person on the left is a man dressing as a woman who also runs a Boston area "LGBT youth" group.

The Oregon Department of Education has even expanded the radical acronym to include “two spirit” (2s), intersex (I), and “asexual” (A), and + (“plus” – for perversions yet to be named).

In addition – and maybe even more pernicious are the school-affiliated groups that “grease the way” for GSAs to get in: State school board associations feed LGBT talking points to school boards when the subject of GSAs comes up. Teachers’ unions push teachers to promote GSAs. And guidance counselor associations encourage school counselors to endorse and initiate LGBT activities in their schools.

Final thoughts

GSAs are not school “clubs” in any normal sense of the word. They are part of the adult LGBT movement’s obsession with recruiting children and teenagers.

The LGBT movement deceitfully describes GSAs as “social” networks that support LGBTQ students’ true “identities” and are all about “safety.” The truth is that GSAs are all about indoctrinating and pushing false identities and encouraging destructive behaviors. In many ways it’s a massive grooming operation, one which happens covertly in schools across the country. Yet it defies all common sense to promote homosexuality and transgenderism to children.

Thanks in part to these clubs, many youths have been damaged for life, especially if they were drawn into “gender” ideology and encouraged to “transition.” These “clubs” must be removed from schools.