Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 17:46:30 -0700 From: Jean Richter Subject: 8/3/99 P.E.R.S.O.N. Project news 1. Thailand: Dress policy may be easing at teacher's college 2. CA: Former teacher's slander suit is reinstated 3. Australia: News article on growing up gay or lesbian ==================================================================== Associated Press, July 30, 1999 Thai Attitude on Sexuality Changing BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - An unwritten tolerance of transvestite students at a major Thai teachers' college appears to signal a shift in government attitude on issues of sexuality. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] ================================================================================= San Francisco Chronicle, July 31, 1999 901 Mission St., San Francisco,CA,94103 (Fax 415-896-1107 ) (E-MAIL: chronletters@sfgate.com ) ( http://www.sfgate.com ) NAPA COUNTY Ex-Teacher's Slander Suit Reinstated St. Helena - A slander suit against a trustee of the St. Helena Unified School District was reinstated by a state appeals court in San Francisco yesterday. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] ================================================================================= The Age, 3rd August, 1999 250 Spencer Street, Melbourne, 3000. Australia. (Fax: + 61-3-9601-2414 ) (E-mail: letters@theage.fairfax.com.au ) (http://www.theage.com.au ) Growing up bent By MAREE CURTIS She didn't want to die, she just wanted to see herself bleed. She was only 12 the first time she took a razorblade to her wrists. Nicking, cutting, numb. The blood, she says, was a way to see the pain she couldn't feel and didn't understand. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] ================================================================================= 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/