Please answer the following questions about yourself. All responses are collected without any identifying information.

1. What is your gender? 

2. What is your sexual orientation?  

3. What is your age?  

4. What is your race/ethnicity?  

Please provide the following information about the high school in which you are (were) the advisor for a GSA:

5. In what state is the high school located?  

6. Is it a public or private high school? 

7. Is the school in a rural, urban (city), or suburban location? 

8. What is the approximate enrollment of the school? 

9. What year was the GSA established in your school? 

10. How would you describe the socioeconomic characteristics of the school?

Please answer the following questions about your experiences as a GSA advisor:

11. What were the main factors that influenced your decision to become a GSA advisor?

12. Please give a brief history of the events that led up to the establishment of a GSA at your school.

13. Were there any major conflicts over and/or problems with getting the GSA approved of by the school? If so, what were the major sources of the conflict(s)/problem(s)? How were they resolved?

14. What kind(s) of coverage did you get from the local media when the GSA was first proposed? How, if at all, did this coverage change over time?

15. Did you seek any type of assistance from organizations like GLSEN or the ACLU as you worked to establish the GSA? If so, what type(s) of assistance?

16. What types of activities does your GSA group take part in? This would include discussion and support; sponsoring workshops for students and/or faculty; educating the school community,etc.

17. How many students actively participate in the GSA on a regular basis?
What is the composition of the group?—male/female, gay/straight, age, race/ethnicity, etc.

18. Do you think that all the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning students in your school feel it is “safe” to participate in the GSA? Why or why not?

19. From your experience as a faculty member, and now as a GSA advisor, what is your impression of the experience of being a gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered student at your school?

20. What impact do you think the GSA has had on your school?
Give specific examples if you can.

21. What impact do you think the GSA had on the students involved with the group?
Give specific examples if you can.

22. What role if any do you think that your GSA, and similar groups like it around the country, play in the larger struggle for tolerance and LGBT rights?