Dear Safe Schools Coalition members and friends,

The American Friends Service Committee seeks your story for publication on militarism

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To: Friends in the LGBT Anti-War Movement
From: The LGBT Programs, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
AFSC's LGBT programs and Youth & Militarism Program are currently working in partnership with the National Youth Advocacy Coalition (NYAC) on a new issue brief on Queer Youth & Militarism which will feature interviews with queer youth and young adults directly impacted by militarism, graphic, art work, etc. Race, class, age, and gender will be centralized in our queer analysis of militarism. (To see the first AFSC/NYAC anti-war issue brief, go to: http://www.afsc.org/lgbt/peace/default.htm where you can download a pdf copy.)

Now in the development process, we are identifying and interviewing queer youth and young adults whose lives have been impacted by militarism in a variety of ways. These include, but are not limited to:

• Militarism in the schools, including JROTC, impacts of the "Leave No Child Behind" Act (releasing private student information to military recruiters), and censorship of free student expression about the widening "war on terrorism" and related issues

• Registration for (and resistance to) the Selective Service
• Military recruitment, including issues for queer youth, promises made by recruiters, recruitment in Latino and other people of color communities, etc.
• Military service. We are interested in interviewing queer young people who have served in the U.S. armed forces or seriously contemplated doing so.
• Impacts of militarism on queer youth communities in countries/territories dominated by U.S. or other military presence

• Impacts of militarism on young queer immigrants of color in the U.S.
• Budget and other community impacts of the widening U.S. "war on terrorism" on queer youth organizations, agencies, programs, and services.

If you are or know of young queer people who might be willing to be interviewed for this publication, please let us know, giving us contact information by the second week in July, 2003. We can conduct some interviews in person, others by telephone, and others by e-mail.

Contact:

Kay Whitlock
Special Representative for LGBT Programs
American Friends Service Committee
whitlock@bigsky.net
Telephone: 406-721-7844

Joseph Truong
Resources Coordinator
National Youth Advocacy Coalition
joseph@nyacyouth.org
Telephone: 202-319-7596, x 12

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