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Gay-Straight Alliances Can Improve School Environment Panel Says

By Dana Boone 4/20/08

Before students at Johnston High School organized a Gay-Straight Alliance last year, one of 17-year-old Adam Helgeson’s friends didn’t feel safe going to class in the suburban school district located northwest of Des Moines.

“He felt like it was socially unacceptable to be who he was…He would skip class so people wouldn’t see how he acted [...]

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