Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 18:02:20 -0700 From: Jean Richter Subject: 4/13/2000 P.E.R.S.O.N. Project news, pt. 2 1. UK: Profile of Clause 28 financial backer Brian Souter 2. CA: Gay Prom 2000 coming up in June 3. KY: Parents sue school officials over son's harassment ================================================================== The Observer, April 2, 2000 119 Farringdon Rd., London EC1 3ER (Fax: 0171 713 4250) (E-Mail: letters@guardian.co.uk ) ( http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/observer ) Section Leader He says he's not homophobic, but this Christian son of a Perth bus driver is spending 500,000 pounds to save Section 28 The Observer Profile - Brian Souter Arnold Kemp Brian Souter, the Stagecoach millionaire lavishing a fortune on the campaign to Keep the Clause, has brought gay sex almost to the top of the political agenda in a country which had believed it to be a dead issue. He and his allies in England have severely embarrassed Tony Blair and the infant coalition in the Scottish Parliament. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] * Brian Souter Age: 45 Married to: Betty McGoldrick, 44, a former social worker. Met as teenagers. Education: Perth Academy, Strathclyde University. Claims to fame: Co-founder Stagecoach. Seriously rich. Leader, Keep the Clause. Hobbies: Collects Victorian art, reads voraciously, church and charity. ================================================================================= X-Sender: cmlaub@pop.slip.net Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:21:20 -0700 From: Carolyn Laub Subject: GAY PROM 2000 ******************************************************** LOOOOOOK! ********************************************************* G A Y P R O M 2 0 0 0 ! Theme: D e c a D a n c e ! We've Been Here Through the Decades! Date: Saturday June 10, 2000, 7pm-Midnight Location: Centennial Hall, Hayward, CA Cost: $20/advance ticket, $25/ticket at the door Gay Prom is a drug/alcohol-free event, and an activity free from harassment and fear. **** **** **** Gay Prom is an annual bay area celebration for GLBTQ youth ages 25 and under. Gay Prom is organized by the Lambda Youth Project, of Project Eden (a drug/alcohol prevention agency), Horizon Services Inc., Hayward. It is sponsored by a wide variety of people, organizations and businesses in the community. All GLBTQ youth and their friends, ages 16 through 25, are invited to attend! Over 25? You are invited to sponsor tickets for youth ($20/ticket), or join in donating time, goods, services or money to support the event. Everyone is invited to create a GLBTQ Decade panel! (see below) Call 510/247-8217 to volunteer, donate, or sponsor! WHAT IS A GLBTQ DECADE PANEL? Part of the theme of the prom this year is the Decades Project ~ a decade-by-decade celebration of GLBTQ people who have helped build the world we all live in. HISTORY, VISIBILITY, COMMUNITY! This is a community art project with individuals or groups creating a decade, by decorating a 30'x40' foamboard (provided by Lambda) with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered persons and events of a particular decade. Then at the prom, all the Decades are displayed together in a celebrational continuum of GLBTQ history! Want to be involved? You can contact us (510/247-8217 or info@gayprom.org) and tell us which decade you/your group would like to create. We'll bring you the foamboard and some resource info to help you go at it. The Decades are going "first come first served," so let us know soon. We will need all the decades back by May 30 to put the whole project together, so jump on in! "Don't Postpone Joy!" Christina Cappelletti, MSW, MA Coordinator Lambda Youth Project Project Eden 22646 Second Street Hayward, CA 94541 **************************************** Bay Area Gay-Straight Alliance Network 965 Mission Street, Suite 218 San Francisco, CA 94103 ph: (415) 442-4726 fax: (415) 442-4727 www.gsanetwork.org carolyn@gsanetwork.org **************************************** ======================================================== From: SARATOGANY@aol.com [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] CSS-NYS Note: See also http://www.youth.org/loco/PERSONProject/Alerts/States/Kentucky/murder.html where you will find the Paducah, KY school shooting articles regarding the anti-gay element in that shooting. After the Paducah Sun article, June 24, 1998, the judge put a gag order on the case. Michael Carneal, the shooter, subsequently pleaded quilty with mental illness. Hence, the case never came to trial, which would have uncovered the details of the anti-gay abuse he suffered. This is a very telling article and is hard to locate. Recommend you print and or save it. [P.E.R.S.O.N. note - if you can't access the web and would like to see these articles, please email me] MSNBC, April 4, 2000 Former student’s parents sue school officials The parents of a former Somerset High School student filed a federal lawsuit alleging that officials did nothing to stop other students from sexually harassing him. In the classroom and in the hallways, boys said Brad Putman was gay, threw things at him and ridiculed him with phony sexual advances, according to the lawsuit. The suit also said that in the student parking lot, someone painted car-sized stick figures that looked to be engaged in a sex act. Officials let them lay for nearly a week before painting over them, the suit said. That was two years ago, but Putman and his parents are still bitter. His mother, Regina Cooper, said school officials seemed to condone what was going on. “I just can’t understand why nobody would help us,” she said. The district has defended its actions, saying in a statement that its policies and procedures concerning harassment when the alleged incidents occurred “were consistent with established law at that time.” Commenting in writing through the Somerset Independent school district’s attorney, John G. Prather, district officials said that when they learned of the allegations, they “took reasonable measures to end the harassment.” The lawsuit, filed in London on March 24 by Louisville lawyer John Frith Stewart, contends that the district discriminated against Putman because his complaints involved same-sex harassment. Ray Vater, who was school principal at the time, received letters from at least one teacher substantiating Putman’s complaints, yet told Cooper and her husband, Ed, he was not sure what he could do about it, the suit says. When Superintendent Monte Chance met with the Coopers, he told them the school system’s policy against sexual harassment did not cover same-sex sexual harassment, the suit claims. Fearing physical violence, Putman’s parents moved him and his two siblings to a different neighborhood, so he could change school districts for his senior year. Putman was ridiculed at his next high school too, but officials in the new district put a stop to it within a few weeks, Cooper said. ================================================================================ 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/