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Legal rights of Gay-Straight Alliance clubs
Federal and state law protects non-curricular student clubs at public schools from discrimination. This means your school can't refuse to allow the Gay-Straight Alliance to meet because the club deals with LGBT issues as long as there is at least one other non-curricular student club at your school. Read up on the rights of your club:

• Q&A about GSAs' legal rights from the National Center for Lesbian Rights

• Q&A about GSAs from the American Civil Liberties Union

• The Federal Equal Access Act protects GSAs and other student clubs from discrimination:
  Information on the Federal Equal Access Act from Lambda Legal
  
  
• SB71: The CA Comprehensive Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS Prevention Act of 2004

• The California Student Safety and Violence Prevention Act of 2000 (AB 537)

• School Safety & Violence Prevention for LGBT Students: Legal Q&A Guides for School Administrators from the California Safe Schools Coalition

Resources
If you have a specific concern about your GSA's legal rights, contact:

GSA Network

The National Center for Lesbian Rights

The American Civil Liberties Union
     ACLU of Northern California
     ACLU of Southern California

For more information or for hard copies of our resource sheets, contact GSA Network: Statewide Office: 1550 Bryant St, Suite 800, San Francisco, CA 94103, ph: 415.552.4229, fax: 415.552.4729 Central Valley Regional Office: 928 N. Van Ness Ave., Fresno, CA 93728, ph: 559.268.2780, f: 559.268.2786 Southern California Regional Office: 605 W. Olympic Blvd, Suite 610, Los Angeles, CA 90015, ph: 213.534.7162, f: 213.553.1833