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 you attended:

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 was the approximate size of your graduating class? 

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 student leader:

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

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. 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?

15. 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?

16. What types of activities did your GSA group take part in?
For example, discussion and support; sponsoring workshops for students and/or faculty, or educating the school community.

17. How many students actively participated in the GSA on a regular basis?
What was 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 felt it was “safe” to participate in the GSA? Why or why not?

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

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

21. What did you personally learn from your experience with your high school GSA about homophobia, LGBT rights, political activism, tolerance, your community, etc.?

22. What role do you think student activism plays in the larger “adult” LGBT rights movement?
What role do you think it should play in the future?

23. Do you think you will continue to be involved in LGBT issues in the future?
If so, in what ways? If not, why not?