Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 15:49:48 -0700 From: Jean Richter Subject: 6/21/99 P.E.R.S.O.N. Project news 1. CA: March with other GSAs in the San Francisco Pride Parade; LGBT event at the U.S. Department of Education (in San Francisco) ========================================================================== Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 14:49:40 -0700 From: Jessea NR Greenman Subject: Fwd: GSAs in SF Parade >Hi everyone, >The San Francisco Pride Parade is on Sunday, June 27th. All GSAs who want to >march can join the Bay Area GSA Network's part of the youth contingent. You >need to contact me at cmlaub@aol.com or call (415) 643-4850 to let me know >approximately how many people are coming. >Thanks!! >Carolyn > > >MARCH IN THE SAN FRANCISCO PRIDE PARADE!! > >The Bay Area Gay-Straight Alliance Network is organizing GSAs to march in the >parade as part of the Youth Contingent. > >Bay Area GSA Network will carry a sign with our name on it. All the GSAs >that want to march can carry their own signs and march in a group with us. >Your GSA should put the name of your high school and the name of your >club/GSA on the sign. You can make a sign on butcher paper which you carry >like a banner or a sign on poster board which you attach to a piece of wood >and carry upright. Or be creative and come up with another way of showing >your PRIDE!!! > >The parade is on Sunday, June 27. The parade contingent will be lining up on >Market Street between Beale St. and Main St. We're located in Section C. >If you come by Muni or BART, you should get off at the Embarcadero Station. >If you come by CalTrain, get off at the last stop in SF and take the Muni to >Embarcadero Station. > >You need to be there at 10 a.m. > >Email me if your GSA wants to march: cmlaub@aol.com >Tell me how many people are planning on coming (estimate). > >For each 10-15 people we have in our group, we need to have one contingent >monitor. The monitors march alongside our group and generally keep order, >watch out for safety, etc. So, if your GSA is planning on coming as a group, >please select one person who can be a monitor and let me know. The person >needs to go to a contingent monitor training. This is required. There are >training sites throughout the Bay Area on weekends and weekdays: > >Saturday June 12, 1 p.m., SF, The Eagle: 398 12th St. at Harrison > >Sunday June 13, 1 p.m, San Jose, Billy DeFrank Center > >Wednesday June 16, TBA > >Friday June 18, 7 p.m., Berkeley, Center for Independent Living, 2539 >Telegraph > >Saturday June 19, 1 p.m., SF, Metropolitian Community Church, 150 Eureka > >Sunday June 20, 2 p.m., SF, Bethany United Methodist Church, 1268 Sanchez St. > >Thanks everyone!! Feel free to pass this message on to other youth in GSAs. >Make sure they know to contact me as soon as possible. I can't wait to be >there and show our pride as queer youth and straight allies! > >Carolyn ================================================================================== From: Ron Neighbors Subject: US DEPT OF EDUCATION -- GLBT EVENT Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 20:17:52 -0700 ------------------------------------------------------------ FOR DISTRIBUTION - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA CONTACTS: Robert Scott, robert_e_scott@ed.gov; Gloria Estolano, gloria_estolano@ed.gov; Jean Hyams, jean_hyams@ed.gov CELEBRATING GLBT PRIDE MONTH AT THE US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, SAN FRANCISCO ------------------------------------------------------------ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23 US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - Office for Civil Rights 50 United Nations Plaza, Room 304 Noon - 1:30 pm PANEL DISCUSSION - "OUT AT SCHOOL" Federal employees, the education community, and all others are invited to attend. On June 11, 1999, President Clinton issued the first GAY AND LESBIAN PRIDE MONTH PROCLAMATION and ordered the Education Department's civil rights office to step up its enforcement of anti-discrimination and harrassment rules. PANELISTS Alana Flores, Recent High School Graduate Christa Donaldson, Parent of an Elementary School Student Chris Hwang, Staff Attorney, National Center for Lesbian Rights Kent Brintnall, Staff Attorney, US Court of Appeals and Adjunct Professor of Constitutional Law at New College School of Law Sharon Kerr, Elementary School Teacher Vitaly, Staff Attorney, Legal Services for Children, Youth Access Project INFORMATION CONTACTS Robert Scott, robert_e_scott@ed.gov, 415-556-4279 Gloria Estolano, gloria_estolano@ed.gov Jean Hyams, jean_hyams@ed.gov TRANSPORTATION MUNI & BART: Civic Center Station 50 United Nations Plaza is the Old Federal Building located behind the Orpheum Theater (Market & Hyde) and across Hyde Street from the San Francisco Public Library. BUILDING ACCESS Federal employees should bring US Government identification for security purposes. All others are advised to e-mail one of the contacts above to facilitate entry into the building. A telephone number and your organization, if appropriate, should be included in the e-mail message. Every person must have a valid form of identification (e.g., CA driver's license) to enter the building. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT SAFE SCHOOLS Visit the ED website at www.ed.gov. ------------------------------------------------------------ GAY AND LESBIAN PRIDE MONTH, 1999 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Thirty years ago this month, at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, a courageous group of citizens resisted harassment and mistreatment, setting in motion a chain of events that would become known as the Stonewall Uprising and the birth of the modern gay and lesbian civil rights movement. Gays and lesbians, their families and friends, celebrate the anniversary of Stonewall every June in America as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month; and, earlier this month, the National Park Service added the Stonewall Inn, as well as the nearby park and neighborhood streets surrounding it, to the National Register of Historic Places. I am proud of the measures my Administration has taken to end discrimination against gays and lesbians and ensure that they have the same rights guaranteed to their fellow Americans. Last year, I signed an Executive order that amends Federal equal employment opportunity policy to prohibit discrimination in the Federal civilian work force based on sexual orientation. We have also banned discrimination based on sexual orientation in the granting of security clearances. As a result of these and other policies, gay and lesbian Americans serve openly and proudly throughout the Federal Government. My Administration is also working with congressional leaders to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would prohibit most private employers from firing workers solely because of their sexual orientation. America's diversity is our greatest strength. But, while we have come a long way on our journey toward tolerance, understanding, and mutual respect, we still have a long way to go in our efforts to end discrimination. During the past year, people across our country have been shaken by violent acts that struck at the heart of what it means to be an American and at the values that have always defined us as a Nation. In 1997, the most recent year for which we have statistics, there were more than 8,000 reported hate crimes in our country - almost one an hour. Now is the time for us to take strong and decisive action to end all hate crimes, and I reaffirm my pledge to work with the Congress to pass the Hate Crimes Prevention Act. But we cannot achieve true tolerance merely through legislation; we must change hearts and minds as well. Our greatest hope for a just society is to teach our children to respect one another, to appreciate our differences, and to recognize the fundamental values that we hold in common. As part of our efforts to achieve this goal, earlier this spring, I announced that the Departments of Justice and Education will work in partnership with educational and other private sector organizations to reach out to students and teach them that our diversity is a gift. In addition, the Department of Education has issued landmark guidance that explains Federal standards against sexual harassment and prohibits sexual harassment of all students regardless of their sexual orientation; and I have ordered the Education Department's civil rights office to step up its enforcement of anti-discrimination and harassment rules. That effort has resulted in a groundbreaking guide that provides practical guidance to school administrators and teachers for developing a comprehensive approach to protecting all students, including gays and lesbians, from harassment and violence. Since our earliest days as a Nation, Americans have striven to make real the ideals of equality and freedom so eloquently expressed in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution. We now have a rare opportunity to enter a new century and a new millennium as one country, living those principles, recognizing our common values, and building on our shared strengths. NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 1999 as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month. I encourage all Americans to observe this month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities that celebrate our diversity, and to remember throughout the year the gay and lesbian Americans whose many and varied contributions have enriched our national life. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this eleventh day of June, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-third. WILLIAM J. CLINTON ### END ### ============================================================================== Jean Richter -- richter@eecs.berkeley.edu The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project (Public Education Regarding Sexual Orientation Nationally) These messages are archived by state on our information-loaded free web site: http://www.youth.org/loco/PERSONProject/