Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 16:19:08 -0800 From: Jean Richter Subject: 3/13/2000 P.E.R.S.O.N. Project news 1. FL: School board refuses to approve new antidiscrimination policy 2. CA: Funding approved for shelter for homeless gay youth ======================================================================== Naples Daily News, March 3, 2000 Box 7009, Naples, FL, 33941 (Fax 941-263-4816 ) (E-MAIL: letters@naplesnews.com ) ( http://www.naplesnews.com/ ) Collier schools: Board rejects 'sexual orientation' language 4-1 By DENISE ZOLDAN, Staff Writer After months of community agitation over whether the Collier County School District should include protection of gays and lesbians in its revised anti-discrimination/harassment policy, School Board members voted 4-1 Thursday against the controversial move. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] ­ Mary Passmore, Dade County minister, former lesbian for 20 years and a male impersonator ================================================================================= San Francisco Chronicle, March 4, 2000 S.F. Gives Noe Valley Church $54,000 for Gay Youth Shelter Yumi Wilson, Chronicle Staff Writer San Francisco ­ A Noe Valley church got $54,000 from San Francisco yesterday to open a homeless shelter for young gays and lesbians from the Castro, despite appeals from neighbors who said the building is ill-suited for that use. [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/