THE PLACE
FOR GLBTs FROM RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS
Did someone say you can change? Questions about restorative/ reparative
counseling? Read
this first.
to fully
express themselves socially, emotionally, romantically and spiritually.
The HeartStrong Outreach Team has driven over 350,000 miles doing outreach
work, making HeartStrong the most extensive grassroots outreach in the
history of the GLBT movement.
HeartStrong is the only organization in the world with the sole mission to reach GLBT
students from religious educational institutions.
According to the US Department of
Education,
there are approximately 7.5 million students attending religious educational
institutions in the United States alone.
It is legal for religious educational institutions to conduct witch hunts,
harass, out and expel students that are suspected of being or actually are
GLBT.
Any regulation of religious educational institutions must conform to the
First Amendment's guarantee of the free exercise of religion.
"Having the right to do something doesn't always make
it right to do."
HeartStrong FACTS
HeartStrong was founded in
1998. Our outreach work began in 1996.
HeartStrong is a
non-sectarian organization reaching out to gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgendered students from religious educational institutions. (grade
school through graduate school)
HeartStrong is a 501(c)(3), national non-profit educational organization.
HeartStrong offers help and hope to GLBT students of religiously-based
educational institutions which do not permit GLBT students
HeartStrong is a 501 (c)(3) non profit educational organization. Copyright HeartStrong, Inc.
All rights reserved.
There is always hope! Are you attending a
religious school and struggling with thoughts that you may be gay, lesbian,
bisexual or transgender?There is
hope!
ATTENTION STUDENTS
You may
now fill out an incident report online about incidents at your school.
You can find information about the incident report
here. You may file an incident report for yourself or about
someone else.
