Community Information

Below is information about the "Gay/Straight Alliance on Live Journal" community on LiveJournal. To join this community, click here. You may leave the community at any time.

Thanks to jlowe64 for all of his hard work on our banner andlogo!

- OPINIONS FROM MEMBERS -

"This is one of the best maintained communities on all of lj, and it's because you are present without micromanaging...We advertise gsa_lj on our community's user info page, not because you're the biggest gsa on lj, but because you're the best. Keep up the good work."

-jarrellwoods; July 25, 2005

-playthfool; September 21, 2005

-proud_peacock; February 22, 2006

-faceyourfate; March 28, 2006

-halogencycle; July 4, 2006

"Thank you for founding and moderating such a wonderful community on LiveJournal (and now Facebook). Although I do not have anything to contribute to the ever-growing community, I quite enjoy reading most of the daily posts from gsa_lj on my friends' page. The perspectives and opinions submitted by the people of this community have been extremely informative and, quite frankly, I've learned more about the LGBT(...) community in the past few months than I've learned in my lifetime before I joined the community.

"Once again, thank you for the outstanding forum of thoughts, feelings, and opinions that you've provided to the LiveJournal world."

-rmpalpha; November 30, 2006

"gsa_lj is still my favorite lj community ever. I talk about it all the time with my friends in real life. It goes something like this: "So, I'm in this livejournal community called 'gsa lj', and the other day someone posted this interesting article about...."

-moonlight_in_vt; July 10, 2007

-anarchys_savior; July 10, 2007

-neverbeuseless; October 12, 2007

-jaralith; January 25, 2008

-baskcen; January 25, 2008

• GSAs
  
• Internet Safety
  
• Safer Sex (warning: sexual content)
  
• Coming Out
  
• Ally 101/Glossary of Terms
  
• Confronting Homophobia
  
• Trans 101
  

- ABOUT US -

gsa_lj

list gsa_lj as an interest in your own journal

- STANDARDS OF BEHAVIOR -

In an effort to create an open and comfortable environment for our members, the gsa_lj Code of Conduct is listed below. All members are expected to follow our simple rules. If you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions, please don't hesitate to e-mail us at jlhobson@gmail.com. We're always looking for feedback from our membership!

• Things in bad taste, or those which reflect blatant immaturity, pettiness, or attention-whoring;
  
• Pornography - while definitions of pornographic material differ, keep in mind that the community is largely geared toward minors: be responsible;
  
• Profanity-laden or viscerally hateful rants;
  
• Quizzes and memes;
  
• Excessive cross-posts;
  
• More than one post promoting another community – please get approval beforehand!;
  
• Things irrelevant to the subject matter of our community;
  
• Commercially - this venue is not a glorified garage sale;

• Disable commenting, automatically screen, or delete comments in your posts, as that defeats the purpose of discussion;
  
• Resort to ad hominem reasoning, slander, harassment or threats;
  
• Do not resort to personal attacks based on (but not limited to) someone's actual or perceived race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, ideology, political affiliation, or age;

• People won't take you seriously if your posts or comments have horrible spelling, grammar, punctuation, or are in 1337-speak, ALL CAPS, or excessively use the italic, bold, or underline functions;
  
• We are bored with the politically correct Oppression Olympics, and will express annoyance if you engage in such games;
  
• Members will challenge arguments or assertions of fact;
  
• You will be nagged if you fail to properly tag your posts

• Posting something that might make reasonable people squeamish or uncomfortable;
  
• Very long articles or posts;
  
• Large images;
  
• Promotions, after the first 2-3 lines;

• Be respectful, especially toward those you vehemently disagree with;
  
• Keep an open mind;
  

• Enforce these rules, and the LJ TOS
  
• Employ the least punitive sanctions reasonable - usually a friendly reminder - but will delete posts or comments if violations are serious or repeated;
  
• Temporarily suspend posting privileges;
  
• Ban members only as a last resort, upon agreement of a plurality of moderators;
  
• Select new or additional moderators as circumstances warrant

Cordially,

tko_ak (Jamie),
Founder & Maintainer; jlhobson@gmail.com
iconoclast,
Moderator,
mastertheshadow,
Moderator
geekwriter143,
Moderator
halogencycle,
Moderator
redstar826,
Moderator, littleowl248 at yahoo dot com
henkkuli,
Moderator

Support love.

"The government of the United States...gives to bigotry, no sanctuary; to persecution, no assistance."
-George Washington; August 17, 1790

"I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance, and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation."
-Coretta Scott King

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
-Margaret Mead

"Straight Americans need... an education of the heart and soul. They must understand - to begin with - how it can feel to spend years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes, meals, and church services while people you love toss off remarks that brutalize your soul."
-Bruce Bawer; The Advocate; April 28,1998

"Those citizens of tomorrow...what do they say when their friends make sexist, racist, sectarian, or homophobic jibes? Do they stay silent and let the poison of contempt go on its cruel way, or do they have the guts to stop it in its tracks and say such words are unacceptable and dangerous? Do they have the backbone and the conviction to lead their friends in the right direction, even if it seems the loneliest place in the world?"
-Mary McAleese, President of Ireland

"I tried to explain [to my son] that being courageous is being willing to stand when others are willing to sit. To stand up to do what’s right in the face of adversity is showing profound leadership."
-Steven/Susan Stanton, who was fired from her long-time job in pubic service after disclosing she is transgender.