Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 16:38:24 -0700 From: Jean Richter Subject: 7/5/2000 P.E.R.S.O.N. Project news 1. Scouting For All action alert 2. IL: LGBT events at the American Library Association conference ========================================================================== 1. Scouting For All action alert Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 18:57:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Montalvo Reply-To: Boyscout@Texas.net Subject: Scouting for All National Day of Protest To: boyscout@Texas.net ===================== Action Alert ======================== Scouting For All's National Day of Protest Against the Boy Scouts of America's Immoral Policy of Discrimination Against Gay Youth and Adults Scouting For All is calling for a National Day of Protest at all Scout Councils throughout the United States of America. This National Day of Protest provides an opportunity for fellow scouts, adult leaders, concerned individuals, churches, and organizations who support the diversity of the human family to oppose the BSA's bigoted and immoral practice of discrimination against a beautiful segment of the human family. Scouting For All will be PROTESTING at the Boy Scouts of America's national headquarters in Irving, Texas. We are asking those who are not able to PROTEST with us at the BSA national headquarters, to PROTEST at your local BSA Council. If you find the courage to stand with us to support our gay youth and are willing to find the time to organize a protest we need the following information: Contact Person Phone Number Email Address Address and Name of the Scout Council you will be protesting at. Please send this information to info@scoutingforall.org. Your local Scout Council is listed in the phone book. Please check out the new addition to our web page http://www.scoutingforall.org called the Action Alert Command Center for further details. The contact person for each protest site will be listed in the Command Center. Please make contact and lend a hand of support to the protest in your area. Our first amendment provides Americans the right to freedom of speech. All that is necessary to protest is to inform your local police. Some cities may require a permit depending how large the protest group is. Our gay scouts should not have to hide who they are. We need to embrace and love our gay kids and provide them a safe world to live in. Scouting For All will lead the Protest in Texas When: Monday, August 21, 2000 (PLEASE NOTE THE DATE CHANGE) Where: Boy Scouts of America's national headquarters located at 1325 W. Walnut Lane, Irving, Texas and Local Scout Councils throughout the United States of America Time: 8 AM to 11 AM Contact: Scott Cozza, President Scouting For All 707-778-0564 or info@scoutingforall.org "Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has" - Margaret Mead __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/ ============================================================================= 2. IL: LGBT events at the American Library Association conference From: newsdistribution@gaydata.com Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 23:25:18 -0500 Subject: AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION GLBT CONFERENCE... *** PRESS RELEASE *** The ALA Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Round Table is pleased to announce several programs at this years annual American Library Association Conference in Chicago, July 6-12, 2000. ***For more information, please contact Roland Hansen: rhanse@artic.edu GAY TEENS PRECONFERENCE PROGRAM A preconference program titled GAY TEENS IN THE 21ST CENTURY: ACCESS FOR THE FUTURE will be held on July 7, 2000 at the Chicago City Centre Holiday Inn. This program is designed for librarians with interests in intellectual freedom issues that impact library services to gay teens and other young adults. Librarians, library supporters, intellectual freedom advocates, and youth activists will discuss and learn about intellectual freedom issues affecting teens, develop advocacy skills to support information access, explore effective leadership techniques addressing print and electronic censorship, and review quality information resources for gay teens and other young adults. For more information, visit: www.ala.org/olos/gay_teens_preconference.html ROUND TABLE GALA On Monday, July 10, 2000, the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Round Table will celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the founding of the Task Force on Gay Liberation (Annual Conference, 1970) with an anniversary gala. Presentation of the annual Book Awards, plus sit-down dinner will be part of this festive event. The keynote speakers are author Nancy Garden and Sol Kelly-Jones, a teen activist for glbt rights. This event will take place in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Intercontinental during the 2000 Annual ALA Conference in Chicago. Festivities begin at 6pm. Tickets are $60.00 for ALA members, $75.00 for non-members. Tickets maybe ordered via the ALA website at www.ala.org, or purchased at the ALA Registration booths on Thursday, July 6 through Saturday, July 8 ONLY. There may be a limited number of tickets available at the GLBTRT Exhibit Booth on SATURDAY ONLY in the McCormick Place Exhibit Hall. Find the booth in the Professional Exhibits aisle. For more information, visit: http://calvin.usc.edu/~trimmer/ala_hp.html GLBTRT PROGRAM On Monday, July 10, 2000, the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Round Table will present a program entitled: IS THERE ANYTHING IN THE LIBRARY FOR ME? THE CHALLENGES OF SERVING THE GLBT YOUNG ADULT COMMUNITY. The program runs from 9:30 to 11:30am at the Hotel Intercontinental, Exchange Room. "Is There Anything in the Library for Me?: The Challenges of Serving the GLBT Young Adult Community." A distinguished panel of authors, librarians and educators will discuss the state of young adult GLBT literature, questions surrounding Internet access and filtering, and the future of providing service to this community. The panelists are: Lynn Evarts, Library Media Specialist, Sauk Prairie High School (WI) Nancy Garden, author, Annie On My Mind M.E. Kerr, author, Deliver Us From Evie Christine Jenkins, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Harriet Selverstone, Library Media Specialist, Norwalk (CT) High School Moderator: Ann Symons, ALA President, 1998-1999 GLBTRT SOCIAL The Roud Table will be holding a social dinner on Sunday, July 9, 2000 from 6 to 8pm at the Ann Sather restaurant, 929 W. Belmont St., Chicago. This famous Swedish diner will be the setting for members, prospective members, and other supporters to take a break from conference proceedings and socialize in a festive atmosphere. For more information, visit: http://calvin.usc.edu/~trimmer/ala_hp.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Distributed by GLINN's GayData News Distribution Service at www.gaydata.com as a public service. Home of the Gay Media Database. ============================================================================= 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/