Iowa Pride Network

iowa pride network (ipn) was a youth leadership organization that empowered youth to fight bigotry and hate in schools and colleges by training student leaders and supporting student-led gay-straight alliance (gsa) clubs throughout the state. from 2005-2014, ipn helped bring gsa clubs to 20% of public high schools, and 80% of colleges impacting more than 100,000 students at 100 schools each year. additionally, ipn’s student advocates played a key role in changing laws and policies that impact youth at the local and state level. ipn also founded and operated national gay-straight alliance day®, which united 37+ statewide networks of gsa clubs throughout the country and 15+ national organizations to celebrate the impact gsas have in creating safe schools. in 2014, ipn merged with one iowa, the state’s largest lgbtq organization and national gsa day became a program of gsa network (genders & sexualities alliance network, formerly gay-straight alliance network), a next-generation lgbtq rac