Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 18:09:04 -0800 From: Jean Richter Subject: 2/2/2000 P.E.R.S.O.N. Project news, pt. 2 1. CA: More on El Modeno GSA injunction hearing 2. UK: English vote on Clause 28 will be on party lines 3. Homophobic column on GLSEN's safe schools booklet 4. WI: Articles on gay teens and schools posted to web site ============================================================================ From: SARATOGANY@aol.com Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 20:04:19 EST Subject: CA: Judge to rule on gay club Feb. 4 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. Orange County Register, January 27, 2000 625 N. Grand Avenue, Santa Ana, CA, 92711 (Fax 714-543-3904 ) (E-MAIL: ocregister@link.freedom.com ) ( http://www.ocregister.com/ ) Judge to rule on gay club Feb. 4 COURTS: High school students want injunction allowing Gay Straight Alliance to meet. By ANN PEPPER, The Orange County Register Federal Judge David O. Carter said Wednesday he will rule Feb. 4 on the request by two students that a gay support club be permitted to meet at El Modena High School. Heather Zetin, 16, and Anthony Colin, 15, are suing the Orange Unified School District for discrimination under the Equal Access Act for refusing to allow the Gay Straight Alliance club on campus. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] ================================================================================ Reuters, January 27, 2000 Blair rules out free vote on controversial gay law By Mike Peacock LONDON (Reuters) ­ British Prime Minister Tony Blair has decided not to allow Labour MPs to vote according to conscience on a government plan to let schools tackle issues about homosexuality, officials said on Thursday. Just two days ago, the government dangled the possibility of a free vote after it was taken aback by ferocious opposition to the repeal of a law which threatened to spark a revolt in the House of Lords but which gay campaigners brand as homophobic. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] =============================================================================== Creators Syndicate, January 27, 2000 5777 W. Century Blvd., Suite 700, Los Angeles, CA 90045 ( http://www.creators.com ) Mona Charen: First Tolerance, Now Affirmation Washington ­ A visitor from Mars, surveying the American scene circa 1983, might have logically concluded that the movement for normalizing and legitimizing homosexuality had suffered a severe setback from a virus called HIV. Added to traditional moral qualms about homosexuality was a new enemy ­ a fatal disease spread by, inter alia, homosexual conduct. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] ================================================================================= I've posted a series of articles on gay teens and their experiences in school to our web site at URL: http://www.youth.org/loco/PERSONProject/Alerts/States/Wisconsin/articles.html At over 25K it's too long to post here, but if you can't access the web and would like to see them, please email me. ================================================================================= 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/