Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:10:34 -0800 From: Jean Richter Subject: 3/21/2000 P.E.R.S.O.N. Project news 1. IA: Scholarships to be awarded to gay students 2. UK: Clause 28 supporter speaks out against Blair 3. CA: Melee disrupts El Modena school board meeting 4. Call for papers for LG issues in teacher education book ================================================================= Des Moines Register, March 11, 2000 Box 957, Des Moines, Ia.,50304 (Fax 515-286-2511 ) (E-MAIL: letters@news.dmreg.com ) BORSELLINO (Excerpt) CASH ADVANCE: Judy Shepard will be in town later this month to announce full-ride scholarships to three openly gay Iowa high school students. She's the mother of Matthew Shepard, the Wyoming student murdered in the fall of ‘98. Shepard will be joined by the governor, maybe the lieutenant governor, and the heads of the U of I, ISU and possibly UNI.. The scholarships are being offered through the First Friday Breakfast Club, a gay men's group. The March 30 announcement is scheduled to take place in the Capitol. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] =============================================================================== BBC Online News, March 11, 2000 http://www.bbc.co.uk Blair told 'stop lecturing' The Keep the Clause campaign has been high-profiled The Scottish businessman behind the Keep the Clause campaign has warned the Prime Minister that it is not his place to lecture parents about morality. Brian Souter made his comments in the first live public interview on the controversy surrounding the abolition of Section 28 which forbids the promotion of homosexuality in schools. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] London Times, March 11, 2000 PO Box 496, London E1 9XN, United Kingdom (Fax +44( 0 )171-782 5988 ) ( letter@the-times.co.uk ) ( http://www.the-times.co.uk ) No gay lessons, Blair tells Scots BY JASON ALLARDYCE, SCOTTISH POLITICAL REPORTER Tony Blair took charge yesterday of plans to repeal the law banning the promotion of homosexuality in schools. The Prime Minister singled out a campaign financed by the businessman Brian Souter to block repeal in Scotland ahead of England. Mr Souter claims that the move would encourage children to be homosexual, and has paid for posters advertising his "Keep the Clause" campaign. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] ================================================================================ Orange County Register, March 11, 2000 625 N. Grand Avenue, Santa Ana, CA, 92711 (Fax 714-543-3904 ) (E-MAIL: ocregister@link.freedom.com ) ( http://www.ocregister.com/ ) Suspect in biting is gay-club officer SCHOOLS: Principal says he was attacked during a fracas at an Orange Unified school board meeting. By ANN PEPPER AND VICTOR PATTON, The Orange County Register ORANGE ­ An officer of El Modena High School's gay-support club was arrested Friday for allegedly biting an administrator. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] From: SARATOGANY@aol.com Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 08:57:16 EST Subject: CA: Masked Group Disrupts (school board) Meeting To: SARATOGANY@aol.com, bdm3g@gateway.net Msg fwd by: The Coalition for Safer Schools of NYS, PO Box 2345, Malta, NY 12020 Email to: saratogany@aol.com "The Actual or Perceived GLBT Student Protection Project" CSS-NYS Note: One must wonder if the masked and supposively supporters of a student GSA were really those who "oppose" the GSA. Anti gay individuals have been using talk radio programs and posing as gay males or lesbians. These frauds spout and affirm anti-gay myths and misinformation in the 1st person. ========================================================= This message has been distributed as a free informational service for the expressed interest of non-profit research and educational purposes only. LOS ANGELES TIMES, March 10, 2000 Times Mirror Square, Los Angeles, CA, 90053 (Fax 213-237-7679 or 213-237-5319 ) (E-MAIL: letters@latimes.com ) ( http://www.latimes.com ) Masked Group Disrupts Meeting By DAVID HALDANE, MARISSA ESPINO, Special to The Times A meeting of Orange Unified School District's board was adjourned abruptly Thursday after a fracas between school administrators and about 30 masked protesters supporting a controversial club at El Modena High School. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] * Staff writer Kate Folmar contributed to this report. ================================================================================ Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 17:36:13 -0500 From: Rita Kissen Subject: call for papers CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: LESBIAN AND GAY ISSUES IN TEACHER EDUCATION Although teacher education programs have begun to teach teachers how to create classrooms free of racism, sexism, able-ism and classism, little has been done integrate preparation for sexual diversity into the teacher education curriculum. This anthology will explore the place of lesbian and gay issues in pre-service teacher education, working from the assumption that education for sexual diversity is as important as education about all other forms of difference, and that it must begin with the preparation of the teachers who will lead the schools of the future. Contributions are invited to address any of the issues raised by this subject. Possible topics include: * The discourse of sexuality in teacher education programs * Mentoring lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (lgbt) pre-service teachers * Working as an lgbt teacher educator * Race, class, gender and sexual orientation in teacher education * Curriculum strategies to help future teachers affirm sexual diversity * Teaching teachers to work with children of gay families * Training teachers as allies for lgbt youth * Making connections with lgbt in-service teachers * Confronting homophobia in teacher education programs and host schools * Censorship * Overcoming administrative resistance * The place of lgbt issues in the multicultural enterprise * Public policy perspectives on lgbt issues in teacher education * What I wish my teacher education program had taught me This list is intended to be suggestive, but not exhaustive. Submissions on any aspect of the topic are welcome! Please send or e-mail a one-page abstract by April 15, 2000 to: Rita Kissen 500 Bailey Hall University of Southern Maine Gorham, ME 04038 ============================================================================== 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/