 My involvement with the GSA doesn't affect my relationships with my peers at all. We have a very supportive environment at our school and everybody is, I have several teachers who come to meetings, our counselor comes to meetings, the principal comes to meetings. It's been a really supportive and wonderful thing except that I constantly have to explain to them what all of the letters stand for in order. What is the GSA? Why do you add a Q to it? That's really the only problem that's kind of odd. Cypress Charter High School could create a safer environment for LGBT students by addressing some of the issues we have with trans students. We're a very small community, only about 160 students, but we have three or four students who identify as trans or questioning or have expressed interest in pursuing that and so one of the big things that we talk about in some of our staff meetings is appropriate language, what to do when you have a substitute in the classroom, how to handle issues when other students ask anything at all that still protects a student's privacy without making it seem like a big scary thing and that's been our biggest challenge I think as a school. Other than that we're very welcoming and accepting of student sexuality. I first realized I was, I actually never realized I was queer friendly because I had the wonderful experience of having parents who raised me to think that people were people which is kind of a weird and frightening idea. When I was in high school my best friend came out to me which took him I think three hours of painful phone conversations you know just just say whatever it is you're trying to say kind of stuff and then when he finally said it I was like oh is that what was on your mind I already you know I already knew that let's go talk about some let's go get ice cream or something so I guess I've always um just seen every person as a person and related to them that way. My favorite movie is probably going to be the last one I saw which was Captain America and I couldn't tell you why I just I love the whole experience of it it was fun to watch and I took my son with me and we had a great time watching it. I've always been a big fan of purple I think it makes me feel happy just to see it.