Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 17:00:26 -0700 From: Jean Richter Subject: 6/16/2000 P.E.R.S.O.N. Project news 1. CA: Profile of student gay activist 2. NH: Intolerant letter about school tolerance assembly 3. MA: More news on GLSEN workshop controversy ========================================================= 1. CA: Profile of student gay activist SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, May 18, 2000 901 Mission St., San Francisco, CA, 94103 (Fax 415-896-1107 ) (E-MAIL: chronletters@sfgate.com ) ( http://www.sfgate.com ) Atherton Student Shows Savvy in Art of Politics Gay 18-year-old extends activism to myriad of social injustices Bill Workman Matt Wolf prefers to talk about how gay and lesbian youth are shaping a whole new world of progressive politics rather than about the times he has been harassed for being gay. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] attitudes.'' Bill Workman writes about people from the Peninsula and South Bay; he can be reached at (650) 961-2499 or by fax at (650) 961-5023. E-mail wworkman@sfgate.com. Write him c/o The Chronicle, 2425 Leghorn St., Mountain View, CA 94043. ================================================================================ 2. NH: Intolerant letter about school tolerance assembly Manchester Union Leader, May 18, 2000 Box 9555, Manchester, NH, 03108 (Fax 603-668-0382 ) (E-MAIL: TheUL@aol.com ) ( http://www.theunionleader.com/ ) Gay hour at Epping High: Without parental notice, students get an earful today Today at 1 p.m., the students in grades 9-12 in Epping will assemble in the school gymnasium for an hour-long talk about homosexuality, an event of which parents were not informed. Principal Victor Petzy said notifying parents would have been too "cumbersome." [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] ================================================================================ 3. MA: More news on GLSEN workshop controversy Boston Herald, May 18, 2000 1 Herald Square, Boston, MA, 02106-2096 (Fax 617-542-1315 ) (E-MAIL: letterstoeditor@bostonherald.com ) ( http://www.bostonherald.com ) One bad tape shouldn't mean end of tolerance by Margery Eagan How do you get one of those jobs where you run around secretly taping "teach-ins'' on salacious gay sex acts which many veterans of the sexual wars, gay or straight, have never heard of? [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] Boston Herald, May 18, 2000 1 Herald Square, Boston, MA, 02106-2096 (Fax 617-542-1315 ) (E-MAIL: letterstoeditor@bostonherald.com ) ( http://www.bostonherald.com ) Gay group: Workshop sex talk went too far by Ed Hayward A group under fire for holding an explicit gay sex talk at its annual conference agreed yesterday that three workshop leaders crossed a line with raunchy content directed at students as young as 14 years old. [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/