Safe schools are incredibly important both to protect LGBT youth and to demonstrate to all students that intolerance of LGBT people is unacceptable.  I was lucky to have supportive, tolerant parents (and a strong will) in an area where many of my classmates' parents and families were decidedly NOT tolerant of LGBT people, and where the schools had no resources for LGBT students--please help me help adolescents who don't have it as good as I did.