The LGBTQ community had little public presence at Inver Grove Heights prior to the creation of the first Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) in 2004 at Simley High School. Few newspaper articles or student yearbook accounts exist describing events centered around the LGBTQ community at Simley.
Despite this, the community worked hard to advocate for their cause, allowing both Simley High School and Inver Grove Heights Middle School to become more open to the LGBTQ. Schools in Inver Grove Heights developed efforts to make the community feel seen and safe thanks to the efforts of students and staff in the 2000s. These collections reveal some of the early information about that process.
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Yeredi Pacheco Javana and McKenna Myhre