Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 16:39:35 -0800 From: Jean Richter Subject: 12/15/99 P.E.R.S.O.N. Project news 1. Canada: Toronto school board supporting coming out poster campaign; Backlash against anti-homophobia policy 2. FL: LGBT youth find safe space 3. NY: More on Shenendehowa school's new anti-harassment policy ========================================================================= From: SARATOGANY@aol.com Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 22:24:01 EST Subject: Toronto District School Board is helping sponsor a "coming-out" poster campa To: SARATOGANY@aol.com, bdm3g@gateway.net Msg fwd by: The Coalition for Safer Schools of NYS, PO Box 2345, Malta, NY 12020 Email to: saratogany@aol.com "The Actual or Perceived GLBT Student Protection Project" ========================================================= This message has been distributed as a free informational service for the expressed interest of non-profit research and educational purposes only. TORONTO SUN, December 2, 1999 Sun Media Corporation, 333 King St. E., Toronto, Ontario M5A 3X5 (E-MAIL: editor@sunpub.com ) ( http://www.canoe.com/TorontoSun/home.html ) Gay students invited 'out' T.O. trustees back poster campaign By JEFF HARDER, QUEEN'S PARK BUREAU The Toronto District School Board is helping sponsor a "coming-out" poster campaign for homosexual students. "The poster says that it's okay to be gay or lesbian," Ruby Hamilton of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, said at news conference. "We want all our schools to be safe schools." [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] ================================================================= Support the NY "Dignity for All Students Act", S5775 (call/write your legislators) Text at: New York State Senate Home Page or http://www.senate.state.ny.us/ Assembly version forthcoming: Assemblyman Steve Sanders, Chair of the Education Committee, will introduce the Dignity for All Students Act into the Assembly. ================================================================================= Edmonton Sun, December 2, 1999 #250, 4990-92 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, T6B 3A1 (E-MAIL: sun.letters@ccinet.ab.ca ) ( http://www.canoe.ca/EdmontonSun/home.html ) Column: GAY TEACHERS ADVOCATE OWN AGENDA BY MICHAEL COREN, TORONTO SUN FREELANCE I host a nightly television show on CTS called Michael Coren Live. The research team books up to 20 guests a week. Sometimes there are cancellations, usually because of emergencies or illness. Only once has someone called to explain they had been told not to come. I refer to a citizen member of the Toronto District School Board's equity advisory committee. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] [This item also appeared today in the Toronto Sun (E-Mail: editor@sunpub.com) and the London Free Press (E-Mail: letters@lfpress.com )] ================================================================================ MIAMI HERALD, November 30, 1999 1 Herald Plaza, Miami, FL, 33132 (Fax 305-527-8955 or 305-376-8950 ) (E-Mail: HeraldEd@herald.com ) ( http://www.herald.com ) YOUNG PEOPLE FIND SAFE SPACE By DRAEGER MARTINEZ, drmartinez@herald.com Ellioth Duran found great hardship in facing his sexual orientation. Though he discovered he was gay at age 14, he didn't "come out'' to his parents until years later. In Duran's highly religious household, he felt alone and unsupported. "Thoughts of suicide crossed my mind, and my parents disowned me; they gave me one little book bag for my things and told me to go,'' Duran said Monday night at the grand opening and dedication of Pridelines Youth Services' new Safe Space facility. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] ================================================================================= From: SARATOGANY@aol.com Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 06:44:09 EST Subject: Albany Times Union: Sexual orientation harassment barred (at Shen HS) To: SARATOGANY@aol.com, bdm3g@gateway.net Msg fwd by: The Coalition for Safer Schools of NYS, PO Box 2345, Malta, NY 12020 Email to: saratogany@aol.com "The Actual or Perceived GLBT Student Protection Project" ========================================================= This message has been distributed as a free informational service for the expressed interest of non-profit research and educational purposes only. Albany (NY) Times Union http://www.timesunion.com By MIKE HUREWITZ, Staff writer First published: Friday, December 3, 1999 Sexual orientation harassment barred Clifton Park -- School adds classification after parent complains about gay son's problem with other students Shenendehowa school officials are to unveil a high school policy today against harassment that for the first time includes sexual orientation. [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/