Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 15:36:06 -0800 From: richter@eecs.berkeley.edu (Jean Richter) Subject: 10/31/97 P.E.R.S.O.N. Project news 1. National Day of Silence news 2. CA: Upcoming GLSEN/SFBA meetings 3. Gay history poster available online =============================================================== Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 10:23:25 -0800 From: Doug Case To: acpa-sclgba@ucdavis.edu, Subject: NATIONAL DAY OF SILENCE 1998 Forwarded by Request: Please post widely: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 22:23:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Maria Katherine Pulzetti PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY Largest nationallesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth event is expanding again! The National Day of Silence organizers are already planning for April 8, 1998. The National Day of Silence is an annual event organized by youth to protest homophobia. On the NDOS, people who take a stand against homophobia, whatever their sexual orientation, take a vow of silence from 8am-5pm. During the day, participants hand out cards explaining the NDOS instead of speaking. The Day of Silence began in April 1996 at the University of Virginia, and after its success in raising awareness of LGBT issues and creating alliances with many heterosexual students and mainstream organizations, the organizers decided to spread the event to other campuses nationwide. In 1997, over 100 high schools and colleges across the country participated in the National Day of Silence. Although the NDOS does not in any way intend to "silence" anyone, we feel that organized, visible, symbolic silence can go far toward educating our communities and making ourselves and our allies visible. The National Co-coordinators of the NDOS, Jessie Gilliam and Maria Pulzetti of the University of Virginia, are extremely pleased to introduce to you our *wonderful* group of coordinators for 1997-98 (we decided we couldn't do all this work alone!): Northeast Region: Elissa Mulligan, Middlebury College mulligan@panther.middlebury.edu South: Daniela Wotke, College of William and Mary dwotk@mail.wm.edu Midwest: Jason Kamrath, Western Illinois University mujek2@wiu.edu West: Allyn Roberts allycat@pacbell.net High school: Becca Feldman, Minnesota Center for the Arts ranbowbryt@aol.com Public Relations: Joshua Jensen jojensen@uhavax.hartford.edu We hope that your school is interested in holding the NDOS in April. If you are, please contact the coordinator for your region. If you participated in 1997 and have feedback, please contact Maria Pulzetti (mkp6n@virginia.edu) or Jessie Gilliam (jmg8r@virginia.edu). The NDOS is still a very new event and we want to make as many improvements as possible! We are all very excited about the impact LGBT youth can have in creating a safer and more welcoming community through the National Day of Silence. Please get your school involved! Check out our soon-to-be-revised web page at: http://wsrv.clas.virginia.edu/~mkp6n =================================================================== Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 06:07:56 -0800 (PST) From: jessea@uclink4.berkeley.edu (Jessea NR Greenman) Subject: upcoming GLSEN/SFBA meetings 5:00 pm, Wed, Nov 12 The first GLSEN/SFBA Membership Meeting, Charpe's Grill, 131 Gough St, San Francisco. (One block from Market St, near the Civic Center BART Station.) The adoption of bylaws and the election of officers are required. See page 3. Call Don Woods (415) 584-9968 for more information. NOTE DATE CHANGE. 11:00 am, Sat, Nov 22 Contra Costa meeting for anyone interested in one type of work GLSEN has been doing. Grant Peterson will give a condensed version of his workshops. There will be a panel and perhaps a short video. Please bring friends and colleagues, a food item to share and your own beverage. Joe Torp's home, 2970 Graymont Court, Concord (510) 687-4851. =================================================================== The "Unfortunately, history has set the record a little too straight" poster is available online (and can be ordered) from the excellent and gay-friendly people at Northern Sun Merchandising (http://www.northernsun.com/) The poster itself that is causing the controversy in the classroom of that English teacher is at http://www.northernsun.com/images/set_the_record.gif =================================================================== Jean Richter -- richter@eecs.berkeley.edu The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project (Public Education Regarding Sexual Orientation Nationally) CHECK OUT OUR INFO-LOADED WEB PAGE AT: http://www.youth.org/loco/PERSONProject/