Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:55:57 -0800 From: Jean Richter Subject: 3/22/2000 P.E.R.S.O.N. Project news 1. LA: Newsweek article on gay/straight alliance controversy 2. IL: Letter supporting safe schools for gay teens 3. Canada: Vancouver parents protest plan for GSAs ================================================================ From: SARATOGANY@aol.com Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 19:40:56 EST Subject: Newsweek, March 20, 2000: High School Controversial 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: For additional information regarding Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) HS student clubs and the revelant US Equal Access Act (EAA) visit: www.lambdalegal.org and www.glsen.org ========================================================= This message has been distributed as a free informational service for the expressed interest of non-profit research and educational purposes only. Newsweek, March 20, 2000 251 West 57th Street, New York, NY, 10019 (Fax 212-445-4120 ) (EMAIL: letters@newsweek.com ) ( http://www.newsweek.com ) High School Controversial When two students in Baton Rouge, La., set out to form a Gay-Straight Alliance, they got a real education in the limits of tolerance. By Marc Peyser and Donatella Lorch [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] * With Pat Wingert =============================================================================== Chicago Tribune, March 13, 2000 435 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60611 (Fax 312-222-2598 ) (E-MAIL: ctc-tribletter@tribune.com ) ( http://www.chicagotribune.com ) Letter: Gay teenagers I want to commend Steve Chapman on his intelligent and sensitive journalism in "Gay students get bashed, again" (Commentary, Feb. 17). I am the mother of two gay children who were both deeply closeted in high school for fear of ridicule and verbal and/or physical attack. [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] ­ Donna J. Blaha, Board member PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) Glenview chapter [Donna441@aol.com] ================================================================================ From: SARATOGANY@aol.com Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 17:41:39 EST Subject: Vancouver: Parents rally in opposition to gay-straight clubs in schools + 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: Scholarly youth suicide/suicide attempts research by Tremblay and Bagley at the University of Calgary, Canada (world reknowned for suicidology studies) has massive information regarding gay males. Visit their website at: http://www.virtualcity.com/youthsuicide/journal.htm ========================================================= This message has been distributed as a free informational service for the expressed interest of non-profit research and educational purposes only. Vancouver Sun, March 13, 2000 200 Granville Street, Ste.#1, Vancouver BC V6C 3N3 (E-MAIL: sunletters@pacpress.southam.ca ) ( http://www.vancouversun.com ) Parents rally in opposition to gay-straight clubs in schools Opponents of a B.C. Teachers Federation proposal to support the clubs link homosexuality to alcoholism, drug dealing and violence. Yvonne Zacharias, Vancouver Sun [Deleted article. filemanager@qrd.org] expectation is that it will pass." ================================================================================= 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/