From: gwyn@thunder.indstate.edu (Thomas W. Holt Jr.) Date: Tue, 26 Apr 94 07:48 GMT The Invisible Minority in Our Schools: Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth What Can Be Done? Specific Recommendations. 1. Inservice training for all staff. 2. Parent presentations in the evenings. 3. Classroom speakers. 4. Include gay, lesbian, bisexual resources in school resource lists. 5. Include gay-sensitive books in libraries. 6. Establish anti-slur policy in each school. 7. Include discussion of gay, lesbian, bisexual issues in the class as with any other minority issues. 8. Enact anti-discrimination policies that safeguard sexual orientation in teacher contracts. 9. Designate gay-sensitive staff persons at each school site to act as resource persons for sexual minority youth. 10. Implement a program specifically designed to meet the needs of the gay, lesbian, bisexual minority such as Project 10 in Los Angeles. 11. Provide positive role-models, both historical (Michelangelo, Gertrude Stein, James Baldwin) and current (especially teachers and other on site-staff), as with any other minority. Please note for those in vicinity of South Bay, San Francisco CA: The Bay Area Network of Gay and Lesbian Educators (BANGLE); Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), and the Lesbian, Gay, Sexual Awareness Program (LGBAP) are prepared to assist schools in the implementation of any or all of the above recommendations or other strategies specific to individual schools. BANGLE: Ron Schmidt 408-298-1231. LGBAP: P.O. Box 61011, Palo Alto CA, 94306; 408-723-7350. PFLAG: 408-270-8182 or 415-857-1058. Santa Cruz: PFLAG: Carla Holt, 408-395-9377 Triangle Speakers 408-335-2393, 849 Almar #C222, Santa Cruz CA 95060. -*-*-*-*-* Jessea Greenman, SAO, ESPM, UCB 112 Giannini Hall, Berkeley CA 94720 510-642-6730; "If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle." Rita Mae Brown