Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 12:51:25 -0800 (PST) From: jessea@uclink4.berkeley.edu (Jessea NR Greenman) Subject: Another ALASKA Action alert || emailing list for Utah >From: AlaskaDan@aol.com >Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 02:30:10 -0500 >To: AlaskaDan@aol.com >Subject: Dimond High Gay/Lesbian/Straight Club UPDATE #4 > >As I said in my email on Friday, the Dimond Gay/Straight Alliance is not on >the School Board Agenda for Monday (11/25) nights meeting. However, people >are allowed to speak on non-agenda items two times during a meeting (before >and after agenda items). If you want to speak, call 269-2115 Monday morning >or sign up to speak at the meeting itself at the ASD at 4600 DeBarr Road at >6:30pm. > >I understand the principal, Ms. Pat McDowell, at Dimond High is still >receiving mostly negative comments. If you would like to call her to express >your support for her positive response to the club, her phone number is (907) >243-1141 or fax her at (907) 249-0350. I do not have an email address for >her at this time but I hope to have one soon. > >I am including a listing of names/phone numbers (all AC 907 for you who are >Outside) and email addresses for the 7 members of the Anchorage School Board >below: > >Debbie Ossiander (Board President)...688-2308 >email: ossiander_debbie@msmail.asd.k12.ak.us > >Harriet Drummond...279-7722 >email: drummond_harriet@msmail.asd.k12.ak.us > >Lorraine Ferrell...337-4003 >email: ferrell_lorraine@msmail.asd.k12.ak.us > >Kathi Gillespie...345-5335 >email: gillespie_kathi@msmail.asd.k12.ak.us > >Kelly Haney...522-4351 >email: haney_kelly@msmail.asd.k12.ak.us > >Peggy Robinson-Wilson...333-1831 >email: robinson-wilson_peggy@msmail.asd.k12.ak.us > >Dave Werdal...248-8533 >email: werdal_dave@msmail.asd.k12.ak.us > >Ossiander, Drummond & Robinson-Wilson are usually more progressive members of >the Board. > >Ferrell, Gillespie and Werdal are most conservative with Werdal probably >being the one to lead the fight against the club. > >Kelly Haney is the "wild card". She is the 18 year old who was elected to >the School Board while she was still a high school student and is usually a >moderate-conservative. > >Letters/calls/email should help keep this issue in focus. As required by >federal law and district policy, this group was formed by students and is led >by students with faculty advisers. It is probably best to be as positive as >possible in our communication with the Board. Possibly giving our own >experiences as gay/lesbian/bi/trans when we were in school and emphasizing we >have nothing officially to do with the club. If you are a parent/friend of a >l/b/g/t person, safety is a key issue. Also emphasize the goals of the >club...ending discrimination and educating people on social skills in living >within a diverse community. How could anyone involved with the Anchorage >School District oppose these goals??? > >Although, it should be positive, I plan to ask Dave Werdal at what age he was >"recruited" to be a heterosexual. He was quoted in the paper as saying it >appeared the club was "borderline recruiting." I assume he thinks all people >are asexual until they are "recruited" to become either >homosexual/bisexual/heterosexual!! I also plan to point out the recent >payment of $900,000.00 by a school district in the midwest to a gay man for >not protecting him from abuse during the time he was a student in their >schools. > >If you receive responses to your email or letters please forward me a copy >for EQUAL's files. > >Dan Carter > >P.S. Please forward any ideas you have on this issue and I will send them to >the others on this email list. If you have friends you think should be added >to the email list, forward them a copy of this email and ask them to send me >email requesting their address be added to my file. ========= ========= From: KathyWUT@aol.com Just wanted to let you know that I have been maintaining a mailing list that targets gays and gay-friendly people in Utah. The mail is almost entirely about gay issues. I add Salt Lake area and Utah-specific news and information. Please feel free to let people know that if they are gay or gay-friendly and in Utah or from Utah, that "Kathy's List" is free - and easy to get on or off. Kathy Worthington Salt Lake City KathyWUT@aol.com *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ OK TO RE-POST. Jessea NR Greenman, The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project (Public Education Regarding Sexual Orientation Nationally) The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project is an all-volunteer effort CHECK OUT OUR FREE INFO-LOADED WEB PAGE AT http://www.youth.org/loco/PERSONProject/ "The struggle will never end so enjoy it!" Maudelle Shirek