Team Halsey-Milhaupt Fundraising Page
Friends and Family,
Many of you know that I serve on the board for the Gay Straight Alliance for Safe Schools in Madison (GSAFE).
This year, GSAFE is hosting it’s second Walk-Run-Eat fundraiser, and our family is hoping to raise $1250 for the cause. Will you help Team Halsey-Milhaupt with a pledge?
Thanks partly to organizations like GSAFE, schools today offer a better environment for LGBT students than when I was in high school. But it's still far from perfect. Every day Malcolm and Julian still hear "that's so gay" in the hallways and in the schoolyard. And every day LGBT students and students who are simply perceived as gay are being harassed, intimidated, bullied or worse in our schools. It doesn't surprise me that studies have shown that LGBT students are at a significantly higher risk than straight students for missing school, lower academic performance, depression, alcohol and drug abuse, teenage pregnancy, and smoking.
No one we know here in Wisconsin is proud of our State's recent move in the direction of discrimination against LGBT people and their families (i.e. the hateful "marriage amendment" of 2006). My greatest hope for change in Wisconsin and beyond lies in our youth. I believe that it's the students of today who will make things right in the world for LGBT people and their families tomorrow. GSAFE is helping to carry this movement forward.
We hope you'll consider making a pledge to support our family's effort to raise money for this important and very personal cause.
Proceeds from this event directly support GSAFE’s expanding role in providing quality programming, resources, and support to student leaders, educators and adult advocates who are working to ensure safe middle and high schools for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youths--and all students.
Thanks so much for your consideration.
Linda, Mary, Malcolm and Julian (Team Halsey-Milhaupt)