Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 10:57:49 -0800 From: jessea@uclink2.berkeley.edu (Jessea NR Greenman) Subject: News from TN; youth talkline's new email service needs computer; more from Utah From a local activist in Tennessee comes this word: "A bill was introduced [in the state legislature] with an amendment to have the TEN COMMANDMENTS engraved and placed on ALL STATE BUILDINGS including schools! This "recomendation" PASSED! [on or about Thursday Feb. 22 or Friday Feb. 23rd, 1996]" "What a circus of discriminating laws. I think it is time to start focusing our efforts on 'PROTECTING EQUAL RIGHTS' that we already have instead of stressing that they be extended. This might begin to specifically address this wave of legislated discrimination? Perhaps this would also involve a lot more people that I am begining to see opening a weary eye to a lot of this nonsense." Michael Grantham Uniform Equality Committee Middle Tennessee State University http://www.mtsu.edu/~mtlambda/uec.html ============================================================ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 16:43:00 -0700 To: jessea@uclink2.Berkeley.EDU From: LYRIC Subject: help for lyric youth talkline Jessea--Your postings have been a great source of information to us at LYRIC. I'm wondering now if you can help us to spread the word about the Youth Talkline's new e-mail service and the obstacles we've run into. Thanks, Anne Mattis LYRIC Youth Talkline Coordinator The LYRIC Youth Talkline, Northern California's only peer support phone line for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth 23 and under, is excited to announce that they are beginning a new e-mail service. The service, located at lyric.talkline.info@tlg.net will open March 1 to provide referrals, information, and support to queer youth around the country. The 25 youth volunteers answering the e-mail will be trained in peer support, information and referrals, and crisis intervention. As far as we know, we are the first service of this kind to operate on the Internet. Unfortunately, we have run into an obstacle. As we approach our opening date, we have realized that the computer we have does not have the capacity to run the software we need. We will still be starting the service on March 1, but we will be operating at a limited capacity. We anticipate a flood of mail once the word gets out, so obviously we want to be fully operational, with the capacity to search the web for referrals and read e-mail simultaneously, as soon as possible. Therefore, LYRIC is putting out an **urgent call** to the community for donations. We are looking for an Apple computer with at least 8 Megabytes of RAM and a compatable high-speed modem, preferably a 28-8. We are a non-profit organization, so donations to LYRIC are tax-deductible. If anyone knows where we can get the equipment we need, you can e-mail us at or call Anne at the LYRIC office at (415) 703-6150. Youth 23 and under can e-mail the Youth Talkline at . This service is primarily for information and referrals. Youth who need to talk about a serious issue are encouraged to call the Youth Talkline at (415) 863-3636, or (800) 246-PRIDE in the Bay Area, or (415) 431-8812 for TDD service. Thanks for your help! Sincerely, Anne Mattis LYRIC Youth Talkline Coordinator =============================================== a fellow we'll call "William" writes: > Like I said before, I am from Utah. And all I have to add is >that this incident at East High School (which is about half a mile from >my house and practically next door to the catholic high school that I >went to) is not an isolated incident. The Utah mentality is very skewed >and twisted. > > But all is not lost. The way I understand it, every high school >in Salt Lake City has an informal, unrecognized gay group. Just because >the school is banning the club as a formal organization does not mean >that the group is going to cease to exist. I know, barely, one of the >people who started the group. From what he tells me, they will continue >the group - meeting at a local coffee house or Dee's (or the like). The >group, like all the other groups that are no longer in existence, they >will continue, as all things do. We should take comfort in the fact that >the school board cannot prevent the students from meeting off campus or >advertizing the group (through buying ads in the school newspaper if they >had the funds or through word of mouth) and therefore, cannot silence the >group. ============= from a news story comes the following: > A group called SAFE -- Students Against Faggots Everywhere -- has > since formed at West High School, one of three in Salt Lake that will > be affected by the new ban on all extracurricular clubs. > > And a teacher at East High said parents have been calling the school, > demanding that works such as The Importance of Being Earnest -- a play > by Oscar Wilde, who was gay -- be withdrawn from the curriculum. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ YOU MAY RE-POST. Jessea Greenman The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project*; ph/fax: 510-601-8883, 586 62nd St. Oakland, CA 94609-1245 CHECK THIS OUT FOR LOADS OF INFO: http://www.youth.org/loco/PERSONProject/ The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project is *always* looking for volunteer organizers. Please cc us (for our files) on correspondence you send or receive re our action alerts. *Public Education Regarding Sexual Orientation Nationally.