Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 17:27:13 -0800 From: Jean Richter Subject: 1/5/2000 P.E.R.S.O.N. Project news 1. Australia: Survey shows over 6% of youth have same-sex attraction 2. NY: Gender identity discussion following Brandon Teena movie showing 3. CA: Temporary job opportunity for queer youth in Alameda County; El Modena students seek injunction to allow GSA to meet ======================================================================== From: SARATOGANY@aol.com Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 07:26:25 EST Subject: Australia: Nationwide Survey...6% HS students admit same sex attraction. 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" Anyone know of any credible similar survey(s) of US high school students? ========================================================= This message has been distributed as a free informational service for the expressed interest of non-profit research and educational purposes only. Sydney Morning Herald, 29th December, 1999 GPO Box 506, Sydney NSW 2001 Australia (Phone: +61/2/9282 2822) (E-Mail: letters@smh.fairfax.com.au ) ( http://www.smh.com.au/ ) Students admit same sex attraction. By JUDITH WHELAN, Health Writer More than 6 per cent of senior school students are attracted to members of their own sex, a nationwide survey has found. And these students are up to four times more likely to engage in so-called "health-limiting behaviours" - such as binge drinking and injecting drugs - largely because they feel socially isolated and grow up in "a hostile, threatening and potentially violent environment". [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] The study's authors - Anthony Smith, Jo Lindsay and Doreen Rosenthal - say the proportion of same-sex attraction they found was consistent with other studies of teenage prevalence and of estimates of homosexuality and bisexuality in the adult community. But it also showed "that same-sex feelings start to show very early, therefore it's probable that they are not learned behaviour", Professor Gold said. ================================================================================ From: SARATOGANY@aol.com Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 08:44:34 EST Subject: Spectrum7: Gender Identity Discussion to Follow Showing of "Boys Don't Cry" 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" CSS-NYS Note: Understanding gender identity issues is an important aspect needed when we advocate ending anti-GLBT harassment and violence in schools. The facilitator of the below Spectrum 7 Theater special events discussion, provided significant input for the "Dignity for All Students Act (NY Senate bill S5775). Capital Region list recipients are encouraged to view the movie "Boys Don't Cry" and attend the discussion to follow. ============================================================ Special Events Spectrum 7 Theater 290 Delaware Ave., Albany, NY 449-8995 www.spectrum7.com On Monday, Jan 10th at 8:40 PM, the Spectrum 7 Theatres is proud to present MOVIE TALK, hosted by Moonhawk River Stone. Stone will facilitate a discussion about the highly acclaimed new film Boy's Don't Cry by Kimberly Pierce. The film explores issues of gender identity among American youth through the true life and death story of Brandon Teena. Moonhawk River Stone is a psychotherapist in private practice with Connections Psychotherapy Associates. Stone, a female to male (FTM) transsexual man is active in the transgender community. Stone teaches and trains all over the country regarding lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender issues. This event will take place following the early evening showing of Boy's Don't Cry on 1/10/00. Admission for the discussion is free. For more information call the Spectrum at 449-8995. ========================================================== Boys Don't Cry [R] Based on the true story of Brandon Teena, a tragic tale which made national headlines, Kimberly Pierce's first feature is a powerful look at gender issues in America. Brandon was the new man in town in Falls City, Nebraska. He was charismatic,sexually experienced, dashing and exotic, but when it was discovered that Brandon was in reality a transexual lesbian, he was brutally raped and murdered by two of his male "friends." Hilary Swank plays Brandon and Chloe Sevigny is Lana, Brandon's one loyal girlfriend, who sticks with him after the truth comes out. "Boy's Don't Cry" has some of the plainsong intensity and shock of Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song." Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly. ================================================================================= Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 08:59:51 -0800 From: Derrick Miller-Handley Subject: Queer Youth Temp. Job Opportunity __________________________________________________________________________ QUEER-NET NEWS brought to you by the QUEER RESOURCE CENTER 305 Eshleman Hall (510) 643-UGAY http://queer.berkeley.edu/news __________________________________________________________________________ PRTA invites you to participate in a ground breaking Queer project for Alameda County. We have an anti-tobacco poster that needs to be put up in coffee houses, health clinics and other places where L/G/B/T/Q people go to seek services or just to hang out. We are looking for Queer youth (16 - 23 years old) who know their way around the different parts of Alameda County, to distribute anti-tobacco posters. We would like to get a good cross section of youth from the entire County. MONEY!! Yes, there is money involved. Youth that take on this commitment will receive $10.00 an hour for their time. If you or any of your friends think you might be interested, contact PRTA at (510) 465-0547 or e-mail - ckowens@flash.net (make sure you put youth consultant in the subject line). __________________________________________________________________________ To send messages to queer-net, email owner-queer-net@uclink4.berkeley.edu To unsubscribe, go to http://queer.berkeley.edu/news/unsubscribe.html =============================================================================== Reply-To: listserver@channelq.com Errors-To: listserver@channelq.com Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 09:43:22 -0800 From: "Channel Q" To: Subject: FW: Orange Co. Students Seek Injunction to Allow Gay-Straight Alliance Meetings People For the American Way Foundation -- http://www.pfaw.org/ Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund -- http://lambdalegal.org/ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 29, 1999 PFAWF - Margot Friedman at 202-467-4999, or Kendra Huard at 310-478-6657 or 310-617-6718 (cell) Lambda - Peg Byron at 212-809-8585 or 888-987-1984 (pager) or Myron Dean Quon at 323-937-2728, ext. 229 ______________________________________________________________________ ORANGE COUNTY STUDENTS SEEK INJUNCTION TO ALLOW GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE MEETINGS (Orange County, December 29, 1999) El Modena High School students, prohibited by school officials from holding meetings of their Gay- Straight Alliance, asked a federal judge today to issue a preliminary injunction allowing their club to meet while their lawsuit against the Orange Unified School District continues. "It is unfortunate that it is going to take a court order to get the school board to stop playing politics with their students' rights. But, apparently, these school officials need to learn the lesson that they are not above the law," said Myron Dean Quon, staff attorney for Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund's Western Regional Office in Los Angeles. The students are being represented by attorneys with People For the American Way Foundation, Lambda and Irell & Manella, LLP, a California law firm with offices in Los Angeles and Orange County. "The students have been denied their First Amendment and other legal rights throughout the fall semester. That time can't be recovered. We are asking the court to act now so that no more time is lost and the students' rights aren't denied for an entire school year," said Carole Shields, president of People For the American Way Foundation. In addition to the First Amendment violation, the students' motion argues that the school board is violating their rights under the federal Equal Access Act, which prohibits school districts from discriminating against a student-initiated club because of the political, philosophical, religious or other viewpoints expressed at club meetings. After preventing the Gay-Straight Alliance from meeting all fall, the school board unanimously rejected the students' application to have the group recognized on December 7. El Modena High School has at least thirty-eight student groups that meet on campus, including the Asian Club, Black Student Union, Christian Club, Earth Club, Eighties Club, Equestrian Club, Gentlemen's Club, Girls' League and Juggling Club. The other clubs are afforded certain rights and opportunities by the school, including the right to meet on school premises, participate in "Club Rush" to attract new members, announce and advertise meetings on school bulletin boards, and appear in the school yearbook. If the students' motion is granted, they will be able to exercise the same rights and opportunities that other student groups have while waiting for the final outcome of the lawsuit. Anthony Colin, et al. v. Orange Unified School District, et. al, case no. SA CV 99-1461, is pending in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, Southern Division. ______________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND LINKS: School Board Votes Against Student Gay-Straight Club at El Modena High - December 8, 1999 http://www.pfaw.org/news/press//show.cgi?article=944680196 Read the legal complaint, in Adobe PDF - November 19, 1999 http://www.pfaw.org/courts/orangecountybrief-991124.pdf Gay-Straight Alliance Students Sue Orange County High School - November 24, 1999 http://www.pfaw.org/news/press//show.cgi?article=943483300 Students Set Deadline in Gay-Straight Alliance Dispute - November 19, 1999 http://www.pfaw.org/news/press//show.cgi?article=943053841 Statement in Support of Gay-Straight Alliance at El Modena High School - November 18, 1999 http://www.pfaw.org/news/press//show.cgi?article=942966577 El Modena Students Demand Recognition of Gay-Straight Alliance - November 16, 1999 http://www.pfaw.org/news/press//show.cgi?article=942790525 Hostile Climate 1999 Report Documents Rising Tide of Anti-Gay Bigotry - November 9, 1999 http://www.pfaw.org/news/press//show.cgi?article=942207217 PFAWF to Orange Unified School Board: Follow the Law! - November 4, 1999 http://www.pfaw.org/news/press//show.cgi?article=941762843 ====================================================================== PFAWF Press Releases -- http://www.pfaw.org/news/ ====================================================================== _________________________________________________________________________ This message has been distributed as a free, non-profit informational service, to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. 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