Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 16:04:25 -0800 From: Jean Richter Subject: 1/26/2000 P.E.R.S.O.N. Project news 1. TX: PFLAG to fund awareness campaign 2. UK: More news articles about Clause 28 controversy ======================================================= Houston Voice, 21 January 2000 PFLAG to launch metro-wide awareness campaign by Robert B. Henderson Hate hurts. Safe schools. Unconditional love. Those catch-phrases will be captured in large letters on billboards across metro Houston as part of a year-long, $100,000 publicity campaign by PFLAG's Houston chapter, officials announced this week. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] ================================================================================ The Scotsman, 21st January, 2000 20 North Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1YT Scotland ( E-Mail: online@scotsman.com ) ( http://www.scotsman.com/ ) School boards’ leaders facing parents’ revolt on Section 28 Executive could be voted out in split over campaign ALISON HARDIE and TOM LITTLE The troubled campaign to halt the repeal of Section 28 faced further difficulties last night as rank-and-file members of the parents’ group behind it threatened internal revolt. The executive of the Scottish School Boards Association, whose Keep the Clause campaign was seriously damaged amid false claims that it had celebrity and business backing, faces being voted out by parents angered by the attempt to stop a ban on promoting homosexuality in schools being lifted. [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/