Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 17:40:38 -0800 From: richter@eecs.berkeley.edu (Jean Richter) Subject: 360 Magazine seeks submissions || NJ: Latest outrage against fired teacher || Latest schedule for "Love Makes a Family" exhibit || WA: Safe schools web site || GLSTN conference in Atlanta 2/22 I thought that you could get this out to students who might be interested in writing an article on either the formation of gay/straight clubs or the rights of lesbian, gay, biseuxal and transgender youth to be protected from harassment and violence at school. I know the people who run this magazine, and they are progressive and inclusive. Let's get some queer representation in this magazine that is nationally distributed to high schools! Don Romesburg GLAAD Publications Manager >From: Mag360@aol.com >Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 11:22:54 -0500 (EST) >Subject: 360 MAGAZINE ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS > >360 MAGAZINE WINTER 1997 NEWSLETTER > >PLEASE SHARE THE FOLLOWING NEWSLETTER WITH ANY INTERESTED TEENAGERS AT YOUR >ORGANIZATION. ALSO, PLEASE LET US KNOW OF ANY OUTSTANDING YOUTH-DRIVEN >PROJECTS WE MAY WANT TO FEATURE IN OUR SPRING ISSUE ON STUDENT RIGHTS. > >Thanks for your interest in 360x Magazine, the only national opinion magazine >written by, for and about teenagers! > >360x gives high school students a forum to express opinions and share >personal stories about the important issues we face. Each edition of 360x >focuses on a single theme - for example, our winter issue is on violence and >our spring issue is on student rights. Through opinion articles, reflection >pieces, photos, artwork and poetry, teenagers from across the country explore >the topics related to the selected theme. 360x's youth writers cover all >sides of the theme, approaching the topic "from every angle" and presenting >contrasting viewpoints. > >This newsletter lets you know how you can submit your work to our spring >issue. Some of the topics we will cover include censorship of school >publications, school dress codes, city curfews, student political rights and >the role of religion in school. > >To discuss story or artwork ideas, please call Senior Editor Kalee Thompson >at 1-888-READ-360 (a toll-free number) or send submissions directly to our >office. THE DEADLINE FOR ARTICLES IS MARCH 7. Also, please e-mail us to >receive a copy of our national survey, whose answers will be featured in our >spring issue. We look forward to working with you! > >**************************** >THEY'RE HERE... > >We want to know what you think about our new issue on VIOLENCE. Write a >letter to the editor responding to a specific article or to the magazine as a >whole, or just give us your anonymous feedback. Call, fax, write, e-mail, we >don't care, just TELL US WHAT YOU THINK! > >WANTED: > >ARTICLES >We are now accepting submissions for our spring issue on Student Rights. Call >our office to discuss specific story ideas. Be sure to send your articles, >poems, artwork and photos to our office by mail, fax or e-mail by MARCH 7. >This is your chance to have your work read by teenagers nationwide! > >SUBSCRIPTIONS >Would you like to receive your own copy of 360x Magazine at home? Personal >subscriptions are available for $10 a year. Call our office for a >subsciption card or just send a check for $10 with your name and address. > >APPLICANTS >In the late spring, 360x Magazine will select a board of 25 student editors >to serve during the 1997/98 school year. Applicants must be high school >sophomores, juniors or seniors in 97/98. Call or write our office for more >information or to receive an application. > >360x SUBMISSION GUIDELINES > >Degrees* (500-700 words) In this section, writers share personal experiences >related to the topic. These pieces are usually first person narratives and >contain personal reflection. For our next issue, we want to hear about your >experiences with censorship, curfews and dress codes, among other topics. > >Tangents* Express your reaction to the topic creatively through artwork, >photography, poetry, lyrics, prose or short creative essays. > >Endpoints* (500-800 words) In this section, teenagers take a stand on a >controversial issue. Writers should have a strong opinion on the issue they >choose to write about and should research their topic to back up their >opinion. > >Rhythms* (400-600 words) Rhythms reviews the influence of music, film, video >and TV on the issue topic. CD reviews, band reviews, movie reviews, book >review, opinion essays or interviews are all appropriate for this section. > >Sphere* This section profiles young leaders who work in an organization >related to the issue topic. Do you know any programs or individuals you think >we should know about? > >*PHOTOS AND ARTWORK* > 360 is always looking for creative artwork, photos, editorial >cartoons and drawing that pertain to our topics. 360x Staff ================================================================ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 01:04:43 -0800 From: Alex Damien Subject: Bigotry with a twist Some of you may have already read about my case. I thought that the following question in another batch of interrogatory questions would be of interest: "Provide the name of each and every employee of Watchung Hills Regional High School District, past or present, who, to your knowledge, or in your opinion is openly homosexual." (This question is outrageous.) The replied considered - Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party? George DeCarlo, dismissed substitute School Officials: Commissioner Leo Klagholz New Jersey State Department of Education CN 500 225 East State Street Trenton, NJ 08625-0500 609-292-4469 voice 609-777-4099 fax New Jersey State Board of Education Attn: Robert Woodruff, President and Board Members CN 500 Trenton, NJ 08625 Watchung Hills Regional High School Board of Education 108 Stirling Road Warren, NJ 07059-5799 William I. Apgar, President Peter Falzarano Sondra Fechtner Ewald Friedrich Iris B. Keim Russell Leffert Barbara Luna Barbara Michael Christl Smith Barbara Vitarius Superintendent/Principal Robert Baly Watchung Hills Regional High School 108 Stirling Road Warren, NJ 07059-5799 908-647-4890 voice 908-647-4852 fax Principal Francis Sills (former Vice-Principal, Affirmative Action Officer, and Supervisor of Substitutes at Watchung Hills - She stated to a local paper that "she will return to Watchung Hills to aid her replacement when one is chosen.") Cedar Grove High School Rugby Road Cedar Grove, NJ 07009 201-239-6400 voice 201-859-9833 fax Alan Gaddis, Coordinator of Substitutes Watchung Hills Regional High School 108 Stirling Road Warren, NJ 07059-5799 908-647-4890 voice 908-647-4852 fax ====================================================================== From: FamPhoto@aol.com For those of you who want to see the exhibit, Love Makes a Family: Living in Lesbian and Gay Families--the photo-text exhibit, here is an abbreviated schedule for the spring of l997. If it isn't coming to your community, you can arrange for the tour to come to you! The exhibit can travel to schools (K-12), colleges, churches/synagogues, workplaces, museums, galleries, community centers, etc. It is a wonderful centerpiece for Pride events, community gatherings, and education. Photographer Gigi Kaeser was recently invited to Los Angeles by Growing Generations who were sponsoring the exhibit tour in LA, where she took photos of local gay and lesbian families as a fundraiser for that group. For information on how to bring the exhibit to your community, please write famphot@aol.com and go visit our new website at http://www.javanet.com/~famphoto 1. Feb. 4-March 27 -- contact Dan Clausen in Minneapolis for sites at 612-929-5956 2. Feb. 13-29 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. Stonewall Center. danielle@educ.umass.edu 3. Feb. 3-28. Community Coordinated Child-Care in Madison, Wisconsin 608-271-9181 or HN6181@HANDSNET.ORG 4. Feb. 14-Feb. 28 -- University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, contact: Joan Watson 802-656-4150 5. Feb. 20-March 6, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 505-646-3448 or cstephan@NMSU.EDU 6. MARCH 12- May 2. Diamond Edge Foundation in Delaware, Judith Armstrong 302-575-1735 is organizing a Delaware tour. 7. March 13-June 27. Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St., Cambridge, MA 8. March l6-March 30. University of Pennsylvania. contact hstarr@pobox.upenn.edu2. 9. March l5-28 Simmons College in Boston, contact DRAYMOND@VMSVAX.SIMMONS.EDU 10. April 3-16, University of Wisconsin at La Crosse contact hink_sl@students.uwlax.edu for location 11. June l-30 Lesbian/Gay Community Service Center of Greater Cleveland, 216-522-1999 or center@arienet.net 12. June 6-September, a tour of Maine. Contact rossetti@biddeford.com for locations and dates ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 14:51:02 -0800 (PST) From: Jill Rose Subject: Safe Schools Coalition of Washington Dear Jean: I am part of the Safe Schools Coalition, a state-wide public-private partnership of agencies, civic organizations, and private individuals. The mission of Safe Schools is to support and coordinate efforts to make Washington State schools supportive places for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth, parents, educators, and youth with GLBT parents. Three years ago, Safe Schools launched a state-wide effort to track and report harassment of GLBT youth. Copies of the report and more information about Safe Schools is available by accessing the web at . ====================================================================== From: GLSTNAlert@aol.com Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 14:42:23 -0500 (EST) Subject: GINGRICH TO SPEAK AT GLSTN EVENT GLSTN NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release January 31, 1997 Contact: Diedre Cuffee-Gray, Media Coordinator: 212-727-0135 GLSTN TO STAGE SECOND ANNUAL SOUTHERN CONFERENCE IN ATLANTA ON FEBRUARY 22 CANDACE GINGRICH WILL KEYNOTE AT EVENT IN HER BROTHER'S BACKYARD NOTE: for information about the conference, contact the host chapter, GLSTN/Atlanta, at 404-872-4320, or via e-mail at GLSTNAtl@aol.com (New York, NY) The Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Teachers Network (GLSTN) announced today that it will stage its Second Annual Southern Regional Conference in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday, February 22. Activists working to end homophobia in schools from across the Southeast will gather for a full day of workshops, strategizing, and planning, beginning at 8:30 a.m. at St. Mark's Methodist Church, 781 Peachtree St. (corner of 5th) in downtown Atlanta. "We're excited to be back in Atlanta for our Second Annual Southern Conference," said Kevin Jennings, GLSTN's Executive Director and a native North Carolinian. "We're committed to reaching folks all across the country, and I personally am determined to make sure that includes the South." Jennings expressed particular excitement over the fact that Candace Gingrich, a spokeperson with the Human Rights Campaign and the sister of House Speaker Newt Gingrich, has agreed to keynote the event. "Under Newt's leadership, the House sponsored hearings on the 'promotion of homosexuality in our schools,' in December, 1995, that were a complete farce" said Jennings. "We're hoping that, since it's in Georgia, our conference will give Newt a chance to drop by and have his sister 'set him straight' -- as it were -- on the issue." Other presenters will come from such groups as PFLAG/Atlanta, the Decatur-DeKalb Gay-Straight Student Alliance, the Georgia Psychological Association, and YouthPride, an Atlanta-area LGB youth support group. "We're happy to have all the important elements of the GLSTN coalition -- educators, students, parents, and community members -- represented," said Jennings. "There's something for everyone at this event." Registration forms for the Second Annual GLSTN/Southern Conference may be obtained by calling the host chapter, GLSTN/Atlanta, at 404-872-4320, or via e-mail at GLSTNAtl@aol.com. --30-- With over forty chapters, and a membership of over four thousand teachers, parents, and concerned citizens, GLSTN is the largest national organization working to insure that schools are places where all people are respected and valued, regardless of sexual orientation. For more information, visit the GLSTN web site at http://www.glstn.org/, send an e-mail to glstn@glstn.org, or call the national office at 212-727-0135. 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