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A Lesson Plan from Creating Safe Space for GLBTQ Youth: A Toolkit

Handout for Who Am I? Lesson Plan

Use your answers on the I Am handout to respond to the questions below.

Of all of the social groups to which you belong:

  1. Which ones are you most comfortable with?
  2. Which are you least comfortable with?
  3. Which do you think most about?
  4. Which do you think least about?
  5. Which groups give you the most privileges?
  6. Which groups limit your access, options, and/or rewards in society?
  7. Which have the greatest effect, positively or negatively, on how others see you?

Reprinted from Creating Safe Space for GLBTQ Youth: A Toolkit, Girl's Best Friend Foundation and Advocates for Youth, © 2005.