Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:52:25 -0800 From: Jean Richter Subject: 2/16/2000 P.E.R.S.O.N. Project news 1. UK: School cancels trip to Millennium Dome on "Gay Day" 2. NC: Gay teen playwright wins ACLU award 3. KS: Lawrence school board considers inclusive nondiscrimination policy ============================================================================== London Evening Standard, February 5, 2000 This Is London, 60 Charlotte Street, London W1P 2AX U.K. (E-Mail: letters@standard.co.uk ) ( http://www.thisislondon.co.uk ) School cancels trip to Dome over 'gay day' A primary school cancelled a trip to the Millennium Dome after discovering the date has been dubbed "Gay Day" by part of the homosexual community, it was reported today. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] =============================================================================== Myrtle Beach Sun News, February 5, 2000 Box 406, Myrtle Beach, SC, 29577 (Fax 803-626-0356 ) (E-MAIL: jausband@sunnews.com ) ( http://www.thesunnews.com ) Beliefs net teen ACLU award By Diane Suchetka, KNIGHT RIDDER CHARLOTTE, N.C. ­ The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina will bestow its most significant award on an 18-year-old high school student today. The youngest ever to be honored by the group. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] ================================================================================= Lawrence Journal World, February 6, 2000 Box 888, Lawrence, KS, 66044-0888 (Fax 785-843-4512 ) (E-Mail letters@ljworld.com ) Groups seek to add sexual orientation to district manual The Lawrence school board is headed toward a debate about adding "sexual orientation" to nondiscrimination passages of a new district policy manual. By Tim Carpenter, Journal-World Writer Three Lawrence groups, including the teachers' union, are joining in a push to have the Lawrence school board add language to a new district policy manual that would bar discrimination against homosexuals. The groups seek wording in the manual that would prohibit discrimination on the basis of 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/