Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 08:17:30 -0700 (PDT) From: jessea@uclink4.berkeley.edu (Jessea NR Greenman) Subject: Reminder re Chelsea LG bio series --------------------------------- Reminder: the mainstream publishing house, Chelsea, has a series of LG biographies especially intended for use in grades 6 and up. This series currently includes titles re Willa Cather, Sappho, James Baldwin, Martina Navratilova, Marlene Dietrich, T.E. Lawrence, Liberace, Oscar Wilde, and John Maynard Keynes. These books address, directly, the title characters' sexual orientation in ways suitable for school use. Now is a good time, with schools in their new fiscal/academic years, to start advocating that your local schools' libraries include this series. FOR MORE INFO, CONTACT CHELSEA HOUSE PUBLISHERS, Dept. HR4, 1974 Sproul Road, Suite400, Broomall PA, 19008. Titles are available at bookstores OR you can get 10% hardback or paper by calling toll-free 1-800-848-BOOK (ask for Dept. HR4 to receive discount) or by mailing your order as shown or faxing to 610-353-1439. Paperback copies generally cost $9.95 and most hardbacks are $19.95 (before the discount). SPECIAL note: organizers...if you do not succeed in getting these books ordered for your schools, contact the ACLU and People for the American Way, as well at letting Chelsea AND the national library and education and publishers' associations know. if you DO succeed, then it is important to MONITOR to make sure the books are PUT on the shelves and STAY there. in many instances, school officials have, under pressure, ordered books only to bury them in their desk drawers or keep them inaccessible in various ways. Finally, if the school system says it cannot AFFORD (monetarily, rather than politically) to order these books, then turn to community groups and organize fund-raising to donate books. You will be pleased at the strong support of community groups. for info on organizing book donations to schools, see the "Adopt a School/Book Donation Projects" section of our organizing manual at http://www.youth.org/loco/PERSONProject/Handbook/intro6.html *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ OK TO RE-POST. Jessea Greenman The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project (Public Education Regarding Sexual Orientation Nationally) CHECK THIS OUT FOR TONS OF INFO - - http://www.youth.org/loco/PERSONProject/ Please cc us (for our files) on correspondence you send or receive re our action alerts. "Out of 19 top industrial nations, the US took 17th place in public spending for education in 1992...and came in last for compensation of teachers." __The Nation__