Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 16:54:56 -0700 From: Jean Richter Subject: 10/18/99 P.E.R.S.O.N. Project news 1. DC: Town hall meeting on safe & healthy schools 2. RI: "It's Elementary" broadcast causes controversy ============================================================ Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 15:17:16 -0700 From: Jason Hungerford - Youth Guardian Services (by way of Steve Basile ) Subject: DC: Town Hall Meeting on Safe & Healthy Schools Please distribute widely. PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO ANYONE YOU KNOW WHO IS INTERESTED IN MAKING THE METRO DC SCHOOLS SAFE FOR ALL YOUTH REGARDLESS OF AGE, RACE, COLOR, GENDER, RELIGION, AND SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Come to a.... TOWN HALL MEETING FOR SAFE, HEALTHY SCHOOLS Next week -Wednesday October 20, 1999 7:00 p.m at Hine Junior High School on Capitol Hill on the corner of 8th and Pennsylvania avenues SE (across the street from the Eastern Market metro stop) The meeting will feature panelists from the DC community including a Metro DC youth and parent, published researcher Caitlin Ryan, Linda Wright(the HIV education administrator for the DC Public schools), and others. There will also be time for an open forum discussion on how we can help to make the Metro DC schools safe and healthy for all youth regardless of age, race, color, gender, religion, and sexual orientation. Come to the town hall meeting and bring your family and friends!!! For more information or to get involved with our efforts: call 703-518-0631 ext. 4 or email michelle@youthpridedc.org . [Youth Guardian Services (http://www.youth-guard.org/) is a member of the Youth Pride Alliance, the main sponsoring organization of this event.] =============================================================================== Providence Journal-Bulletin, September 25, 1999 75 Fountain St.,Providence,RI,02902 (Fax 401-277-7346 ) (E-MAIL: letters@projo.com ) ( http://www.projo.com ) Documentary on gays draws fire from afar Channel 36 plans to show a program tomorrow night that features classroom discussions about discrimination. Critics say it preaches acceptance of an immoral lifestyle. By LINDA BORG, Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE -- A fourth-grade teacher in New York asks her students what words come to mind when they hear the word "gay.'' The blackboard quickly fills up with words like "fancy,'' "sick'' "pervert'' and "funny.'' [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] ================================================================================= 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/