Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 06:42:03 -0800 From: jessea@uclink2.berkeley.edu (Jessea NR Greenman) Subject: More ed. equity organizing resources Since we face stealth candidates in school board elections, FYI/FYF: An excellent page about how to organize electorally against the right wing...and WIN! is: gopher://gopher.well.sf.ca.us:70/11s/Politics/activist.tools/how.to.win/ ============================ [Note from The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project: this video is OUTSTANDING...we just viewed it October 29, 1995...excellent video quality as well as top-notch content and presentation. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.] "Out for a change: Addressing homophobia in women's sports" A 27 minute video, broadcast quality, made in 1994 by Dee Mosbacher, MD, PhD. This video has won the 1995 NEMN Bronze Apple. "Out for a change" exposes the devastating emotional impact homophobia has on _all_ women athletes. It includes interviews with college students, athletes, coaches, administrators, and NCAA officers, as well as with prominent professional athletes like Martina Navratilova and Zina Garrison-Jackson. "Out for a change" clearly shows that homophobia is a political tool used to retain straight male control over the multibillion dollar sports industry. Intended audience: High school, college and university-level classes and student programs; sports programs and organizations; teacher and diversity training programs and organizations. "Homophobia is an important issue that affects all women athletes regardless of sexual orientation." Chris Evert, Tennis Champion. To order, contact Woman Vision, 3145 Geary Blvd. Box 421, San Francisco CA 94118; phone= 415-346-2336, fax= 415-346-1047. Video WITH curriculum= $89.95. Video only= $69.95. Curriculum only= $20. CA residents add sales tax. Shipping and Handling: first video packet @$10 each, additional packets @$2.50 each; curriculum only @$3.00 each. Visa/MasterCard orders accepted for totals of $75 or more. ==================== "Gay & Lesbian Students: Understanding Their Needs," Besner & Spungin, 1995, 200 pp. $22.95 (paperback). Promoting an awareness of the problems encountered by gay and lesbian adolescents in the educational setting, this book explores the effects of these problems on the dropout rate, academic achievement, substance abuse, teenage pregnancy, AIDS, school violence, and suicide. Taylor and Francis, distributors, 1900 Frost Road, Suite 101, Bristol PA 19007-1598. Orders can also be placed by Internet at . The book's order number is 1-56032-338-8 (or, for libraries, hardbound, which costs $44.95 is 1-56032-337-X). ============================ Coalition for Positive Sexuality publishes and distributes a pro-sex, pro-queer, pro-choice, and pro-women pamphlet on Sex ed for teens. They also do direct action for better sex ed policies in the schools in Chicago. They are working on a national project and thus expanding beyond Chicago. They are especially interested in coalition-building...so by all means link to their site and contact them to find ways of working together. Coalition for Positive Sexuality 3712 N. Broadway #191 Chicago, IL 60613 (312) 604-1654 cps@positive.org http://www.positive.org/~cps ============================= "Greetings, I just wanted to let you all know about a new automated mailing list for lesbigay teachers of English as a Second Language. Below you will find a "press release" of sorts. If you could please add this to your lists of goodies, I would be very appreciative. Also, for those of you who maintin web pages, please add this to the appropriate locations. Thanks Tom Riedmiller" ____________ New Discussion Group Formed GLESOL-L@UNI.EDI DId you know there is an on-line discussion group for lesbigay ESOL professionals and their friends? The new mailing list GLESOL-L is now up and running. The purpose of this is to foster serious dialog and exchange of Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual issues in the field of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). Taking on a national as well as a global focus, GLESOL-L seeks to facilitate professional communication among individuals with an iterest and vision for a more enlightened approach to curriculum development and program administration. The audience for this discussion group will be second and foreign language educators, educational administrators, material writers, publishers, students and those who know that a curriculum of inclusiveness can be an effective curriculum. To sign up for GLESOL-L, send an e-mail to: mailserv@uni.edu In the body of the message, type the following: subscribe glesol-l To post to GLESOL-L, send e-mail to: glesol-l@uni.edu ============================== *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ YOU MAY RE-POST. Jessea Greenman The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project*; ph/fax: 510-601-8883, 586 62nd St. Oakland, CA 94609-1245 Gopher to "gopher.outright.com" Web sites: http://www.youth.org/loco/PERSONProject/ http://www1.usa1.com/~furball/glb/person.html/ http://www.pride.net/pridenet/person The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project is *always* looking for volunteer organizers. Please cc us (for our files) on correspondence you send or receive re our action alerts. *Public Education Regarding Sexual Orientation Nationally.