Students provide educational assembly during Pride Week

Students in RE's Gender and Sexuality Association partnered with the Black Student Association and Women Empowered to present an educational upper school assembly in honor of Pride Week. A dozen students contributed to the informative May 3 assembly, which focused on providing facts and definitions related to the LGBTQ+ community to encourage support, empathy and acceptance.
"Pride is an important time for the LGBTQ community," said Malena Tewari '23, GSA secretary. "It's a time for celebrating, yes, but it's also a time for reflection and learning. Keeping this in mind, you should try to educate yourself."

GSA President Felipe Campano '21 led off the assembly, joined by vice president Ceci Granda-Scott '22 and the secretary Tewari. Riley Miles '23, Finn Oberg '24, Leah Maduro '23, Karyna Steele '23, Jamora Arroyo-Jefferson '24, Zoey Weiss '21 (the president of Women Empowered) and Kat Herrera '23 also participated.

Besides explaining terms and presenting facts, the students advised their peers on how to be supportive of members of the LGBTQ+ community. They reminded that some LGBTQ+ people face rejection from their families and friends. They urged their peers to respect LGBTQ+ students' privacy, and they emphasized that LGBTQ+ students should not feel pressured to "come out." To the larger RE student community, they proposed a few simple measures to show support, including using gender-inclusive language (for example, substituting "friends" for "ladies and gentlemen," and normalizing the sharing of pronouns.

"Gender-inclusive language can really go that extra mile in making people feel more accepted or included," Granda-Scott said. "It may seem small, but it can make a big difference."

At the conclusion of the assembly, Campano urged students to reach out to GSA officers if they had questions.
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Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.