Parents don’t stop fighting for their LGBTQ+ kids
Opinion: Ahead of Day of No Silence on April 4, parent Jennifer Cousins calls for an end to the attacks on LGBTQ+ youth.
April 2, 2025
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Opinion: Ahead of Day of No Silence on April 4, parent Jennifer Cousins calls for an end to the attacks on LGBTQ+ youth.
The Day of NO Silence emerges as a powerful call to action, transforming a day of quiet solidarity into a loud, unapologetic movement against the ongoing discrimination faced by LGBTQ+ youths in schools.
A statement about the widespread bullying, harassment, ignorance and oppression that LGBT students, teachers and their friends grapple with in junior high and high school each day.
This year, for the first time, the “Day of Silence” morphed into a day of action called the “Day of (NO) Silence.”
LGBTQ youth will still draw attention to silence and erasure, then break the silence with a livestreamed rally.
GLSEN's Camille Beredjick says Friday's Day of Silence is not just shutting up, it's standing up.
Hundreds of thousands of students are expected to take part in Friday's national Day of Silence to combat school bullying just months after Lawrence King's tragic killing inside the walls of a school.
Resistance by the nation's most vehemently antigay groups could not keep the National Day of Silence from garnering a record number of participants this year. More than 8,500 middle schools, high schools, and colleges in the United States participated in the 12th annual day of action on April 25, which is coordinated by the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network to promote safe school environments for LGBT and ally students.
LGBTQ+ students and allies will take a vow of silence tomorrow to protest the harmful effects of harassment and discrimination of LGBTQ+ people in schools.