Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 05:55:22 -0800 From: jessea@uclink2.berkeley.edu (Jessea NR Greenman) Subject: The PERSON Project Brochure The P.E.R.S.O.N. PROJECT: Public Education Regarding Sexual Orientation Nationally AN ACTIVIST NETWORK TO ADVOCATE FOR LGBT INCLUSIVE CURRICULAR POLICIES Western Region: c/o Jessea Greenman, phone/fax=510-601-8883 email The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project* is an informal, national network of organizations and individuals working to ensure that fair, accurate, and unbiased information regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and about the nature and diversity of sexual orientation is presented to America's youth as part of public school education. The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project utilizes proactive strategies to improve the treatment of LGBT persons in K-12 educational systems. Advocates for The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project provide testimony before state and local boards of education, meet with educational policy makers at all levels of government, inform the public about educational equity issues, and furnish various resources for addressing these subjects in the classroom. We call for an end to the censorship of information about our communities in textbooks, course content, resource materials, and library offerings associated with public education. We believe that elementary and secondary curricula should include: Fair and accurate information about sexual orientation in sex education, social studies, humanities, and family life classes. Information about the historical and continuing contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people to art, language, education, science, sport, etc. Discussion of the LGBT liberation movement and the history of the struggle for equality for sexual minorities in the United States and throughout the world. Documentation of significant social, legal and historical events, including the National Marches on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in 1979, 1987, and 1993; the Stonewall Resistance of 1969 and its 25th Anniversary commemoration in 1994, and the struggle for privacy and civil rights via the courts, (e.g. Bowers v. Hardwick, the Gay Olympics case, and the cases having to do with the rights of LGBT people to serve in the Armed Forces and to be recognized legally as parents). I support your efforts! Please send more information about how I can become a part of this work. (Please print) Name_________________________________________________________ Address________________________________________________________ City________________________________State___________Zip_________ Phone?____________________________Fax?________________________ Email?_____________________________________________________ Please send this back to The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project, 586 62nd St., Oakland CA 94609-1245 or fax to 510-601-8883 or email to . *The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project was formerly known as Project 21. We are proud to be a member of NACYSO, the National Advocacy Coalition on Youth and Sexual Orientation. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ PLEASE FEEL FREE TO RE-POST OR PRINT, WITH ATTRIBUTION Jessea Greenman The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project*; ph/fax: 510-601-8883 586 62nd St. Oakland, CA 94609-1245 To get to our gopher, gopher to "gopher.outright.com" Point a web browser at http://www.outright.com/project21 Another Web site, courtesy of "Gay & Lesbian Web Alliance": URL: http://emanate.com/glwa/proj21 The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project is *always* looking for volunteer organizers. If interested, please contact Jessea as shown above. Please cc us on all correspondence you send or receive regarding one of our action alerts...we file it ALL! Thanks! *The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project was formerly called Project 21 but it is no way connected with GLAAD. P.E.R.S.O.N. (copyrighted) stands for Public Education Regarding Sexual Orientation Nationally. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ PLEASE FEEL FREE TO RE-POST OR PRINT, WITH ATTRIBUTION Jessea Greenman The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project*; ph/fax: 510-601-8883 586 62nd St. Oakland, CA 94609-1245 To get to our gopher, gopher to "gopher.outright.com" Point a web browser at http://www.outright.com/project21 Another Web site, courtesy of "Gay & Lesbian Web Alliance": URL: http://emanate.com/glwa/proj21 The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project is *always* looking for volunteer organizers. If interested, please contact Jessea as shown above. Please cc us on all correspondence you send or receive regarding one of our action alerts...we file it ALL! Thanks! *The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project was formerly called Project 21 but it is no way connected with GLAAD. P.E.R.S.O.N. (copyrighted) stands for Public Education Regarding Sexual Orientation Nationally.