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GLSEN hosts Respect Awards with Billy Porter, Peppermint

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GLSEN will host its annual Respect Awards April 29 in New York, with guests including Miss Peppermint and Billy Porter. Respect Awards director Michael Chavez said that the event will be moving. “It will inspire a lot of people to get active and take action in their own communities and see how much more work there is to do, especially with all of the harmful things happening,” he said.

At the event, they will recognize the Student Advocate of the Year, Sophia T. Annually, GLSEN recognizes a student from around the country who is impacting their community. “Sophia is doing incredible work advocating for inclusive sex education that is LGBTQ+ affirming, working with Johns Hopkins University to implement curriculum.” Chavez said.

Chavez calls the students that attend the Respect Awards the “biggest celebrities” of the evening. “It is really important for the adults, both the allies and the queer folks, to hear directly from these queer youth about what it’s like to be in school today as a queer person,” he said.

GLSEN is a queer youth advocacy organization that has been working for more than 30 years to protect LGBTQ youth. “GLSEN is all hands on deck right now, because our kids are under direct attack and have been for years now,” said actor Wilson Cruz.

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