Action Guides
- How To: Create a Podcast for your Cause...the easy way
- How To: Organize a Show with Your Cause as the Theme
- Action Tips: Making Calls That Will Make People Listen!
- Write to your school board to ask them to support comprehensive sex ed
- How To: Start a Gay-Straight Alliance at School
- Action Tips: Coming Out
- Action Tips: Bring the Frightening Facts of HIV/AIDS in the U.S. to Your School
- How To: Use Videos or Photos to Record Your Cause
- Action Tips: Participate in the Facing AIDS Campaign
- How To: Write an Article About Your Cause
- Action Tips: Sign a Petition Advocating Gay Marriage
- Action Tips: Support Gay Rights
- Start a Gay-Straight Alliance
- How To: Conduct a Voter Registration Drive
- Action Tips: Endorse charities like Keep a Child Alive to support HIV/AIDS education for teens.
- Are you biased in any way? Find out by taking the Harvard Implicit Bias test
- Celebrate National Coming Out Day on October 11th.
- Action Tips: Endorse Charities to Support HIV/AIDS
- Action Tips: Discuss with Your Friends All Ways You Can Get an STD
- How To: Start a Gay-Straight Alliance at School
- Action Tips: Participate in National Day of Silence
- Poll the students at your school
- How To: Make a Cause Button
- Action Tips: Write or Start A Petition
- How To: Raise Awareness with a Wall of Pledges
- How To: Start an Awareness Campaign About Your Cause
- How To: Organize a Poetry Slam for Your Cause
- Action Tips: Organize a Rally for Your Cause
- How To: Organize an Art Show to Support Your Cause
- Action Tips: Organize a Benefit Concert for Your Cause
- How To: Create a Survey About an Important Issue
Easy Ideas
- Take the human rights temperature of your school by answering a few questions
- Play an online game that supports DoSomething.org
- Stand up against stigma, racism and other forms of discrimination associated with HIV/AIDS
- Check out SocialVibe.com/DoSomething and spread the word about your fave cause!
- Take part in a discussion about homosexuality and experiences with coming out
- Spark a discussion in class about how homosexuality is portrayed in the media
- If an insensitive joke isn't funny, let people know
- Talk to your teachers about offensive speech and encourage them to stop it when they hear it
- Don't call things that are boring or dumb, "gay"
- Stand up for someone else; if you hear of someone being picked on for being gay, let the bullies know you don't think it's funny
- Talk to your principal about updating your school's discrimination policy to cover gender and sexuality if it doesn't already
- Go to the Gay Pride Parade in your area.
- Don't let people perpetuate stereotypes! Speak out if someone says something negative!
- Join or start LGBT or Gay/Straight Alliance at your school
- Volunteer at your local homeless shelter once a week for a few hours.
- When you donate to an organization, find out where the money goes and make sure the organization supports your values.
