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Training Manual Safe Zone Training Manual Working to ensure a campus atmosphere that is supportive, informative and welcoming to all members of the campus community. 2009 Edition SDSU Safe Zones relies on continuing collaboration and support from many organizations and departments campus-wide including: The President's Office The Pride Resource Office The Department of European Studies The Department of Women's Studies The President’s Leadership Fund The Cross-Cultural Center Counseling and Psychological Associated Students Services The SDSU Safe Zones Program would not be possible without support from: SDSU Senate Committee on Diversity, Student Disability Services Equity and Outreach Public Safety GLIC (Gay and Lesbian Issues and Student Health Services Concerns, a faculty/staff group) Student Activities and Campus Life Office of Employee Relations and Center for Student Rights and Compliance Responsibilities Women’s Resource Center Athletics Residential Education Gamma Rho Lambda The information in this manual is based on Safe Zone and Safe Space Programs at other colleges and universities throughout the country. Special thanks go to Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Safe Zone Program for making their manual publicly available Original Publication: 01/02 Revised: 1/09 Safe Zones Training Manual 1 Safe Zone Contact Information 2009/2010 For more information about Safe Zones at SDSU or about becoming an Ally, please contact: Susan Cayleff, Ph.D. Department of Women’s Studies [email protected] Or Carrie Sakai, Psy.D. Counseling & Psychology [email protected] SDSU Rainbow Flag Raising – July 1, 2009 For more information about the following areas, please contact the person indicated • Safe Zone Allies: Edee Benkov [email protected] • The Ally Program: Carrie Sakai • Commu8nity-based Service Learning 20 hour class-related interns: Susan Cayleff • Safe Zone volunteers: Susan Cayleff • Women’s Studies semester-long SafeZone (3 course units) interns: Susan Cayleff 2 Table of Contents Safe Zone Contact Information....................................................................................................... 2 A Safe Zone at SDSU … ................................................................................................................ 5 To Become a Safe Zone at SDSU................................................................................................... 5 A Safe Zone Ally ............................................................................................................................ 5 Goals of the SDSU Safe Zone Program.......................................................................................... 5 “Free to Be Me” Statement............................................................................................................. 6 Terms, Definitions, and Labels....................................................................................................... 7 Symbols and Flags .................................................................................................................... 15 What is Homophobia?................................................................................................................... 18 Homophobia in Clinical Terms................................................................................................. 19 Homophobic Levels of Attitude: .............................................................................................. 19 Positive Levels of Attitude.................................................................................................... 19 How Homophobia Hurts Us All ............................................................................................... 20 Biphobia – Myths and Realities of Bisexuality ............................................................................ 21 How Transphobia Hurts Our Communities.................................................................................. 22 Understanding Transphobia and Transphobic Myths................................................................... 23 What is Heterosexual Privilege?................................................................................................... 25 Examples of Heterosexism ....................................................................................................... 26 The Heterosexual Questionnaire............................................................................................... 26 Some Basics.................................................................................................................................. 27 Transgender Emergence – a developmental model ...................................................................... 28 Things Non-Trans Individuals May Take for Granted ............................................................. 29 Supporting Transgender People................................................................................................ 30 Additional Resources................................................................................................................ 31 Intersexed...................................................................................................................................... 31 Coming Out................................................................................................................................... 34 Coming Out: Students on Campus............................................................................................ 35 Coming Out: Recent Trends ..................................................................................................... 35 Ways to Prepare for Coming Out.............................................................................................. 36 Possible Questions and Responses Students............................................................................. 37 Family: The People Who Raised You ...................................................................................... 38 Cass Model Of Homosexual Identity Development ..................................................................... 38 Identity Confusion .................................................................................................................... 38 Identity Comparison.................................................................................................................. 39 Identity Tolerance ..................................................................................................................... 39 Identity Acceptance .................................................................................................................. 39 Identity Pride............................................................................................................................. 40 Identity Synthesis...................................................................................................................... 40 People of Color Issues: ................................................................................................................. 40 Same Gender Loving and other Share Experiences.................................................................. 40 Comments from people of color on being LGBTQ.................................................................. 41 Two Worlds .............................................................................................................................. 41 Dual Prejudice........................................................................................................................... 42 Safer Sex - Education is the Key .................................................................................................. 42 3 What is AIDS? .......................................................................................................................... 43 How is HIV Transmitted?......................................................................................................... 43 High Risk .................................................................................................................................. 43 Protect Yourself: Condoms and Dental Dams.......................................................................... 44 How to Put on a Condom.......................................................................................................... 44 Protect Yourself: Oral Sex and Latex ....................................................................................... 44 How to Use a Dental Dam ........................................................................................................ 44 Being An Ally............................................................................................................................... 45 Four Levels in Ally Development............................................................................................. 45 Qualities of Allies ..................................................................................................................... 46 Ten Ways to Be an Ally............................................................................................................ 46 Benefits of Being an Ally ......................................................................................................... 47 Guidelines for Allies................................................................................................................. 47 Creating a Non-Homophobic Campus
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