Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 17:05:05 -0700 From: Jean Richter Subject: 7/22/99 P.E.R.S.O.N. Project news 1. WI: News articles on domestic partner benefits for Madison teachers 2. MN: Stories of two students who fought harassment 3. Book review: "Sex, Death, and the Education of Children" =========================================================================== CAPITAL TIMES, July 19, 1999 Box 8060,Madison,WI,53708 (Fax 608-252-6445 ) (E-MAIL: tctvoice@captimes.madison.com ) ( http://www.madison.com/ ) A MATTER OF PRIDE GAYS AND LESBIANS IN GOVERNMENT SEEK ONE SET OF RULES FOR ALL By Luke Timmerman The Capital Times If you're gay or lesbian and work for a company such as Barnes & Noble, IBM or The Gap, you can get domestic partner health insurance. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] ================================================================================ ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS, July 20, 1999 345 Cedar Street, St. Paul,MN,55101 (Fax 612-228-5500 ) (E-MAIL: letters@pioneerpress.com ) ( http://www.pioneerplanet.com/ ) STUDENTS WHO FOUGHT HARASSMENT SAVOR THEIR VICTORIES//TWO WHO FOUGHT BACK RELATE EXPERIENCES AT NATIONAL CONFERENCE Tom Wilkowske, Duluth News-Tribune In their eyes, they weren't asking for much. Katy Lyle just wanted the sexually explicit graffiti about her to be removed from the Duluth Central High School boy's bathroom. In Wisconsin, Jamie Nabozny just wanted an apology, an end to the gay-bashing and a diploma from Ashland High School. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] ================================================================================ From: SARATOGANY@aol.com Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 13:27:14 EDT Subject: Book Review: By CSS-NYS Education and Religion Consultant Message from: The Coalition for Safer Schools of NYS, PO Box 2345, Malta, NY 12020 The Actual or Perceived GLBT Student Protection Project 7/22/99 The following is a brief book review by: Father John Kettlewell Education and Religion Consultant/Speaker Coalition for Safer Schools-NYS. Book Review I have just read a difficult but brilliant book that addresses the issues of our concern. It's called, SEX, DEATH, AND THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN, with the subtitle, "Our Passion for Ignorance in the Age of AIDS." It is published by the Columbia University Teacher's College.The author, Jonathan Silin, is gay and a teacher of young children. He goes into great biographical detail about himself, his lovers, his long term partners, his dying friends, as a background for his strong radical views. He describes his experiences speaking to teachers' groups about guiding young children into a totally different mind-set so that gays, and those perceived as gay would be fully accepted in the culture of school children. His analysis is brilliant of how difficult that is because of the ideas about kids upon which educational strategies are based. Our cultural obsession with the "innocence" of children inhibits us from introducing them to the real world, leaving them psychologically handicapped for properly dealing with that world. The book is not an easy read, but it has powerful insights. Sincerely, JOHN KETTLEWELL (Lead Teacher and Counselor, the Adirondack School, Greenwich, New York. He is also a priest of the Episcopal Church and serves as Rector of St.Stephen's Church, Schuylerville, New York.) ================================================================================= Jean Richter -- richter@eecs.berkeley.edu The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project (Public Education Regarding Sexual Orientation Nationally) These messages are archived by state on our information-loaded free web site: http://www.youth.org/loco/PERSONProject/