Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 16:28:49 -0700 From: Jean Richter Subject: 4/26/2000 P.E.R.S.O.N. Project news 1. FL: GLSEN Miami meeting on fundamentalist schools 2. PA: Banned article: "A Pretty Good Day in the Life of an Out Gay Kid" 3. MA: Article on the Christian right opposition to gay issues in schools ================================================================================ From: RLoupo@aol.com Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 22:33:47 EDT Subject: GLSEN/Miami Hosts Marc Adams,The Preacher's Son,on S. Bch.Thurs 4/27 To: Glsenmiami@aol.com REMINDER! GLSEN/Miami hosts Marc Adams and his partner Todd Tuttle this Thursday, April 27, at the Community Room of the South Beach AIDS Project in the rear of the Fedco Pharmacy Building, 306 Lincoln Road. Schmooze, sip, and snack from 6:30- 7 PM. Marc & Todd will speak from 7 - 8 PM. [Numerous South Beach bistros will beckon as you leave] Their topic will be fundamentalist schools and their effects on glbt and questioning youth and actions that Marc and Todd, through their non-profit organization, Heartsong, are taking to counter the negative effects of these repressive institutions. Please join us and please bring a friend or two! For more info call 305/668-8415. ================================================================================= From: SARATOGANY@aol.com Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 17:25:45 EDT Subject: A Pretty Good Day in the Life of an Out Gay Kid 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" =================================================================== This is a message from the GSATalk List, a service of Student Pride. GSATalk is an unmoderated list serve of Gay-Straight Alliance organizers. Civility and Netiquette are assumed and appreciated. ___________________________________________________ I wrote this article to be published in our school newspaper. but the Head of School (like a principal) vetoed it. If any of you have any way to spread it around, please do. I'd like to think that someone will get to read it, at least, even if I am forbidden from publishing it at school. Of course, ours was the only article that even had to be checked with him. Private school, gotta love it. We will at least have a very dry, boring article that he okayed about our Gender Issues Forum in the paper, anyway. A copy of it is available on our website. Sarah Strassburger www.dell.homestead.com/SSAgenderissues/home.html A Pretty Good Day in the Life of an Out Gay Kid 6:30 AM Wake up. Yawn. Stumble down to breakfast. Just like every other kid in America. 7:15 AM Get on the bus. Pull out your awesome new CD, The Butchies "Are We Not Femme." It's so cool to see yourself represented somewhere, even if it's just one CD. You realize your Walkman's out of batteries. Groan. Resign yourself to 40 minutes of listening to everybody talk about how stupid the others are, and how so-and-so is such a f***ing queer. What a fag David is. You sit there wondering how many other gay kids are on that bus, and why the bus driver doesn't reprimand those kids. Oh well. At least they're leaving you alone today. 7:55 AM Get off the bus to raucous calls of "F***ing butch" from the back. Try to shrug it off. They'll work for you someday. 8:05 AM Passed two PDA's in the hall already. Made you queasy. Heteros are so gross. It's so frustrating to see heteros kissing and no one cares, but if, say, two guys even hold hands or hug, people freak out. 11:15 AM History. Yawn. How can Mr. Smythe talk for forty minutes on Greek and Roman daily life without even mentioning that homosexuality was common and even accepted? You wanted to bring it up, but you've got to pick your battles. Staying alive is hard enough. One-third of gay teenagers have attempted suicide at least once. 12:00 PM Lunch. Finally. It felt like you'd never get out of history. Ooh, there's a big crowd over there. Wonder why... Oh, they're selling prom tickets. Hmm, how much of an uproar would it cause if you went over there and tried to sign up as a couple with your girlfriend? Too much...maybe next year. 1:25 PM English class. Cool, Willa Cather. Awesome woman. Her use of imagery was incredible, not to mention she was a Pittsburgh dyke. Except how come Mrs. Jackson isn't saying anything about Cather's lesbianism? Sigh. She never told us Shakespeare's love sonnets were written to a man, either. 2:20 PM Health class. How come the sex and sexuality unit is only about heterosexuality? Teenage pregnancy isn't relevant to all of us, Mrs. R. Teach us about gender identity, dental dams, and prejudice too. I'd rather know who I am than the history of the American Red Cross. Don't forget to read the homophobic graffiti scrawled on your desk before you leave. 3:00 PM School's out! Yay! You grin for the first time all day as Jen and Mikey meet you by your locker. "Coming to Gender Issues?" they ask. "Of course," you say, "It's the best part of my day." ==================================================================== This message has been distributed as a free informational service for the expressed interest of non-profit research and educational purposes only. "The Actual or Perceived GLBT Student Protection Project" A project of: Coalition for Safer Schools of NYS John Myers Director of Operations and Programs PO Box 2345 Malta, NY 12020 (518) 587-0176 Email: saratogany@aol.com (To join the CSS-NYS Email List, send request to saratogany@aol.com) ============================================================================== From: SARATOGANY@aol.com Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 17:41:21 EDT Subject: Why the Christian right is opposed to public education, especially for gays 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" =================================================================== fwd from: Safe Schools Coalition-Washington The Boston Phoenix September 1999 School gays Why the Christian right is opposed to public education, especially for gay and lesbian students by Surina Khan Beverly LaHaye thinks the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN) is dangerous. LaHaye is founder and chair of Concerned Women for America (CWA), the largest anti-feminist women's organization in the country. And she is just one of the many individuals and organizations on the right to attack GLSEN specifically, and the public-school system more broadly. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] Surina Khan is an associate analyst at Political Research Associates, a Somerville-based think tank and research center that monitors the US political right. Surina Khan, recently joined IGLHRC as their new Executive Director ==================================================================== This message has been distributed as a free informational service for the expressed interest of non-profit research and educational purposes only. "The Actual or Perceived GLBT Student Protection Project" A project of: Coalition for Safer Schools of NYS John Myers Director of Operations and Programs PO Box 2345 Malta, NY 12020 (518) 587-0176 Email: saratogany@aol.com (To join the CSS-NYS Email List, send request to saratogany@aol.com) ============================================================================= 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/