PFLAG

The Issue

• The LGBT community is being prosecuted by bigots like the Westboro Baptist Church, and other conservative christian Community
• 9 in 10 of the LGBT People are mistreated in someway at school.

Who is acting upon it

• PFLAG (Parents of Lesbieans And Gays)
• Pflag is a community 200,000 strong
• Pflag has a 3 fold plan of Suport Educate,advocasy

What is the stratagie-suport

• Support- they have created a Story Center and other various sites where people of the LGBT community can post their stories and reach out to other of the LGBT commnuity.
• there are page theire sites for parents of LGBT and LGBT people as well

What is the strategy-Educate

• they have pages to help people realize how big a problem this is. with statistics on schools and community to statistic
• they touch on the treatment of LGBT in schools to the faith and community.

What is the strategy-Advocacy

• They advocate for legal action of gay marriage, in federal courts to get Gay marriage approved and laws preventing hate crimes agenst The LGBT community

How are they received?

• Pflag is well received by 200,000 supporters
• the only sites that apose them are not well founded or are vary biased

does change occur

• Yes, pflag has gotten the "The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009"
• witch enforces punishment agenst hate acts agenst many groups of people from race Too LGBT community

Citations

• "Civil Rights Division Home Page." Civil Rights Division Home Page. Web. 29 May 2015. . "PFLAG National." PFLAG National. Web. 29 May 2015. . "How You Can Help Stop PFLAG & GLSEN!" Mission America. Web. 29 May 2015. . A member of the westboro baptist church holding two signs stating "god hates fags" and "fags doom nations" Digital image. Web. 29 May 2015. . The gay flag. Digital image. Web. 29 May 2015. .