School Boards desiring to avoid the requirements of the Equal Access Act (EAA) to prevent students from organizing Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) clubs within their schools may have difficulty doing so. However, legal experts have recently purported ways to accomplish this task in order to avoid the problems that may arise when students attempt to…

This paper examines the legislative history of the federal Equal Access Act (EAA), which states that public secondary schools must recognize gay-related groups where the schools receive federal assistance and have a "limited open forum." If the EAA applies, a school must provide a gay-related student group with access to the school that…