Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:59:14 -0800 From: Jean Richter Subject: 2/29/2000 P.E.R.S.O.N. Project news 1. CA: Two No On Proposition 22 rallies 2. WI: Students circulating pledge for tolerance at school 3. IA: News column on successful gay/straight alliances 4. LA: Clergy protest proposed formation of gay/straight alliance 5. UK: Scottish National Party softens stance on Clause 28 repeal ===================================================================== From: CookFilms@aol.com Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 13:46:16 EST Subject: Fwd: The Rally Chris Cook S. California Finance Director direct: 323/964-0083 fax: 323/934-4860 e-mail: Chris@noonknight.org address: NO ON PROP 22 6014 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90036 ------------------------------------------------------ LOS ANGELES RALLY Join MELISSA ETHERIDGE for a RALLY AGAINST PROP 22! When: Friday, March 3, 2000 at 8pm Where: West Hollywood Park (Santa Monica & Melrose / Robertson & San Vicente) Celebrities, Comedians, and Elected Officials Join Forces to Fight Knight! SURPRISE GUESTS!!!! Come rally against discrimination and hate. Show solidarity amongst our communities. Get out the Vote. DEFEAT PROP 22. For further information, please call 323/964-0073 ----------------------------------------------------- SAN FRANCISCO RALLY Please join San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, other prominent politicians, celebrities, and representatives from youth, labor, teachers, gay and lesbian groups, and AIDS service organizations for a Get Out The Vote Rally to Defeat Proposition 22: Where: Yerba Buena Public Gardens (Mission St. btw. 3rd & 4th St.), San Francisco When: March 3, 2000, 6:30 p.m. Why: To Get Out the Vote and Defeat Proposition 22! For further information, please call 415/227-1020. >> From: "Timothy Cavanaugh" To: Subject: The Rally Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:03:04 -0800 ================================================================================= Associated Press, February 21, 2000 Gay teens ask schoolmates to promise tolerance Statewire MIDDLETON, Wis. (AP) ­ Calling for an end to harassment and narrow-mindedness, a group of gay and lesbian teen-agers and their friends is trying to persuade a majority of teachers and students to sign a pledge calling for tolerance of students of all backgrounds and persuasions. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] ================================================================================ DES MOINES REGISTER, February 15, 2000 Box 957, Des Moines, Ia., 50304 (Fax 515-286-2511 ) (E-MAIL: letters@news.dmreg.com ) REKHA BASU ACCEPTANCE FOR GAY STUDENTS When it comes to social issues, Iowa is considered somewhat less progressive than California. So occasionally it's nice to see we're ahead. Orange County is the latest battleground over high school gay-straight alliances, which support gay students or students with gay family members. Parents at California's El Modena High recently prompted their school district to go to court to shut one such after-school club down. But gay-straight alliances are thriving, uncontested, in Iowa, where some people consider them a lifeline and the only place they can find unconditional acceptance. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] * Register Columnist Rekha Basu can be reached at basur@news.dmreg.com or (515) 284-8208. ================================================================================= Baton Rouge Advocate, February 22, 2000 525 Lafayette St., Baton Rouge, LA, 70821 (Fax 504-388-0371 ) (E-MAIL: bbankston@theadvocate.com ) ( http://www.theadvocate.com ) Ministers protest plan at McKinley to start Gay Straight Alliance club By MICHELLE MILLHOLLON, Advocate staff writer The entire community will be affected if a Gay Straight Alliance chapter is allowed to form at McKinley High School, a group of religious leaders said Monday. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] ================================================================================ Electronic Telegraph, February 22, 2000 (E-Mail: et.letters@telegraph.co.uk ) ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ ) SNP shifts position on Section 28 By Nick Britten, Scottland Political Correspondent The Scottish National Party will not oppose statutory guidelines being introduced to replace Section 28, Alex Salmond said yesterday. The move appeared to be a blatant attempt to lure Tory voters in the forthcoming Ayr by-election. It showed a softening of the SNP position in the light of growing public support for legal provisions. The Executive's plan to repeal Section 28, banning promotion of homosexuality in schools, appears to be the main battleground on which the by-election, on March 16, will be fought. [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/