The QT CLub

11/15/2018

"...QT Club has been a safe space and a really important club for queer students at OSA."
-Triece kushner

Everyone has a safe space. My safe space is the famous Queer and Trans (QT) club, and I am not the only one who thinks that.
Sammi, who is a student who goes to QT Club every Friday says, “It’s a safe space to eat cookies and a place to make friends.” Another member, Joaquin Antonio Montes de Oca, says, “It is my safe space because it is where I don't feel so out of place in the world.”

Rami, the leader of QT Club, started this club 2 years ago. This club was started because Rami was in the GSA (Gay-Straight-Alliance) and they believe that some discussions held in the club were bordering on transphobic. After one of the fellow kids in the club made a presentation on Radical Feminism, Rami decided to form their own club. “I just wanted to have a space were we could feel safe. In tenth grade we realized the club had some transphobic and mostly white members. There are lots of trans and people of color at the school and I new it was time to make that safe spot”

QT club is not exclusive to members of the LGBTQ community, as a few straight people attend. A member who would like to stay anonymous says, “Yes, I do identify as straight but I think that everyone is BI or PAN, they just haven’t met the right person yet.” “I go to the QT club because it is nice to see nice people together, it is also my safe spot. I like lettuce. But not salad” they add. I can tell that they are really happy in this club.

2 years ago, QT club was not a thing. Thanks to Rami KD and Nyla Gill, QT Club has been a safe space and a really important club for queer students at OSA. When I was at my old school, I felt scared because I knew I was gay. But the school was homophobic, I had no choice but to hide. Thanks to QT Club, I now feel like I have a choice, and that I do not have to hide. Here is how QT club has helped others:

“I have been more confident in myself and I haven’t let people take me down lately”
-Joaquin Antonio Montes de Oca

“I have felt more aware of my leadership skills and how to work with kids all of ages”
-the co director Nyla Gill.

“For me, I don’t think it’s the exact same like everybody else.I am just so amazed that people like you guys (6th graders) are going to the club like this. It gives me so much hope for this generation”
-Sammi Kane

You can come to QT club to just go to room 316. Come and have fun, make friends and eat food!

29 Comments

0_0

11/15/2018 11:49:13 am

I give you a round of applause!

HMMm

11/15/2018 12:07:00 pm

So do I! This article was great: Heartwarming, funny, informative, and truthful. I want to go to QT club now!

P. Pogba

11/15/2018 12:08:54 pm

Good job

NAME HERE

11/15/2018 12:16:12 pm

I absolutely LOVE this article!

meow

11/15/2018 12:30:03 pm

zebra

11/16/2018 08:00:20 pm

that's irrelevant

11/26/2018 07:44:05 pm

you're irrelevant!

11/26/2018 07:45:02 pm

YOUR FACE IS IRELLEVANT

HAHAHA

11/26/2018 07:45:40 pm

u spelled irrelevant wrong!

QUEEN YAASSS-SAUCE

11/26/2018 07:47:07 pm

SHUSH! SHUSH! CHIRRENS!!!! YOU ARE DISTRACTING FROM TRIECE'S FANTABULOUS ARTICLE!!!!

zebra

11/27/2018 02:54:25 pm

Meow

Rupaul

11/15/2018 12:31:38 pm

WORKKK IT!!!!

justin timber

11/15/2018 12:33:00 pm

yassss queen

QUEEN YAAASSSS-SAUCE

11/26/2018 07:43:16 pm

yassss queen indeed!

name(required)

11/15/2018 12:34:14 pm

this was really good but there are some parts that are kinda controversial

triece

11/15/2018 05:07:59 pm

like what

Bobers claime

11/16/2018 09:50:19 pm

Good

NAME

11/26/2018 11:18:45 am

GOOD

JMDOCST

11/26/2018 07:40:28 pm

I absolutely LOVED this article!!!! It was very informing and nice and well-written. I feel like it covered a lot of very important details and had quotes from many points of view. Whoever this Joaquin Antonio Montes de Oca Calica Seine Torres fellow is, he sounds like a very trustworthy, well rounded young child who all should worship and look up to. Anyway, regardless of how fantabulicious this dashing 'Joaquin' character must be, I think that this article is positively sensational! Just as- if not more -marvelous than this EXTREMELY dazzling 'Joaquin' person. Though they are both one-hundred percent breathtaking!!!!!! By the way, I apologize for the long comment. I hope I'm not rambling. Some people say that I ramble and I suppose that occasionally I can ramble but I'm not sure whether or not I am rambling. I try not to ramble but once I get writing I just go and go and go and go and ramble and ramble and ramble. It's a gift and a curse. Or rather, a curse and a gift, as it is less of the latter than the 'gift' portion. I suppose it could possibly be phrased as a bitter-sweet curse, as it has it's perks along with it's disadvantages. The point is, I don't think I ramble, Joaquin is fantabulous, and QT club is FRICKIN' AWESOME!!!!! I love QT club. I think that a lot of the quotes were spoken with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it. That was a bad analogy.... Sorry about that. Anyway, I think that more people should know about QT club, I think that if it was more widely advertised, more people would come and have a great time just like I do every Friday. I think that QT club is what really gave me the courage to tell my parents that I'm gay. And it has helped me to open up more and be myself more than I ever have before. I feel way more comfortable than I used to at my old school. I feel so FREE now! QT club and it's members empower me to do anything as long as I set my mid to it, like eat a Kit-Kat without breaking it down the middle! Or eat an avocado without peeling the skin like a MANIAC!!!!! I hope I'm not rambling again. I think I might be rambling. I really do try not to ramble but I might be. Sorry, but I am OFFICIALLY rambling. The point is that the article is, on a scale from one to ten, a YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSS QUUUUEEEEEN!!! (aka: 100000000/10) Okay, I'm gonna stop rambling and start doing something productive with my life and-- Oh My God it's 1:00 AM!!!!!!!!! Okay, byyyyyyyyyyyyyyye!

#896

11/27/2018 02:58:13 pm

stop promoting yourself Joaquin we all know that is you. but can we talk about the true star, TRIECE. i mean they wrote this really good artificial and they are so talented. but i think that this is so cool!!

-#896

#896

11/27/2018 03:00:42 pm

i meant article

what the heck

11/27/2018 11:14:40 am

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Ili

11/27/2018 08:35:34 pm

Aye, I think this is rlly cool what y'all is doin, like, it fr an issue an pple need to understand that this ain't a joke, yk.

JOAQUIN

11/27/2018 08:36:51 pm

I am SO SORRY about this!!!! It was my sister! I'm not sure that she understands what the article is about!! Oops!

JOAQUIN

11/27/2018 09:58:45 pm

I'm pretty sure she thinks that it's my article which is about a completely different problem. The point is, Triece's article is some SNAZZY SHTUFF and you should all read it!!!!!

Triece Kushner

12/12/2018 06:52:08 pm

Hey it is all fine!!!!

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