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ToBeGLAD Day combats hate with celebration

ToBeGLAD Day combats hate with celebration

Maddie Ngo, News editor May 11, 2023

The Gender Sexuality Alliance (GSA) Club hosted an informative series of panels to celebrate LGBTQ+ culture amid controversy during North’s annual ToBeGLAD Day Friday, April 14. Events during c-block,...

The above drawing by sophomore Julia Dwyer was shown outside the auditorium as part of the panel.

ToBGLAD: Students read writing, exhibit art, perform in annual Speak Out

The Newtonite January 7, 2014
Students participated in Speak Out D-block yesterday in the auditorium as a part of Transgender Bisexual Gay Lesbian Awareness Day (ToBGLAD). The Gender Sexuality Alliance (GSA) organized this on-campus event which involved students reading both their own work and other published pieces, as well as a dance performance and two a cappella groups.

ToBGLAD: Alum and local transgender activists discuss experiences, LGBTQ issues

The Newtonite January 7, 2014
Members of the Newton and greater Boston transgender community educated students and faculty about what it means to be transgender as part of the Transgender Bisexual Gay Lesbian Awareness Day (ToBGLAD) in the auditorium during C-block yesterday. Students were encouraged to ask questions, and junior Sam Taylor, a co-officer of the Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA), mediated the discussion.

Gay-Straight Alliance organizes Days of Silence, Action

The Newtonite April 27, 2012
by Amanda Hills Wednesday, the Gay-Straight Alliance will host a Day of Silence, during which participants will remain silent all day. Two days later, the club will host the Day of Action Friday, during which members will distribute literature on the gay, lesbian, transexual, bisexual and queer community, according to Spanish teacher Daniel Fabrizio, the adviser.
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