In this issue of GSA Network News, you'll find:
Wanna meet other people fighting homophobia?
Wanna learn how to improve your GSA?
Wanna become a leader?
Then attend an upcoming GSA Leadership Training!
Peninsula:
Sunday, December 2nd, 9:30am-4pm
YWCA of the Mid-Peninsula
4161 Alma St.
Palo Alto, CA
Spread the word!
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GSA Network will be sponsoring Leadership Trainings in other California regions throughout the year. Keep watching GSA Network News for info about upcoming trainings in your area.
For information about Northern California Leadership Trainings, contact Emilie at 415.552.4229 or e-mail her at mailto:emilie@gsanetwork.org. For information about Southern California Leadership Trainings, contact CC at cc@gsanetwork.org.
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2. Call for art submissions for GSA Network
Would you like to have your art showcased with other queer youth art?
Would you like to contribute to an awesome youth led organization?
Gay-Straight Alliance Network is asking for your contributions to a queer youth (25 and under) art silent auction to raise money for our programs. We're looking for drawings, photos, collages, cartoons, paintings, sculptures, zines, etc. (if you can matte or frame your work that would be great). Learn more about the organization below or by visiting our web site at http://www.gsanetwork.org
Submissions due: January 7
for more information contact Jill at jill@gsanetwork.org or 415-552-4229
or just send your work to either our Northern or Southern California office:
GSA Network
art stuff
160 14th St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
or
4477 Hollywood Blvd. Suite #202,
Los Angeles, CA 90027
GSA Network is launching a new student led campaign to implement California's Student Safety and Violence Prevention Act, the law that protects all students from discrimination and harassment on the basis of actual or perceived sexual orientation and gender identity in public schools. This ground-breaking law, known as AB 537, went into effect in 2000 but has not been fully implemented - particularly in schools and districts where LGBT students struggle with daily homophobia and harassment.
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Who:
3. County-Wide GSA Meeting in Marin
What: County-wide GSA meeting
When: Monday DEC 3rd 4:30-6:30pm
Where: 1000 Sir Francis Drake Blvd #10, San Anselmo
Every year GSAs start strong with people, energy and ideas, but sadly energy and enthusiasm, as well as leadership often decline. This year SPECTRUM and REACH are offering technical support and a space for all the GSAs to meet and help each other.
We are asking that at least two people from each Marin County High School GSA come to this meeting to
For more info: Dona 415 457 1115 x206
dhwhite@spectrummarin.org
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4. World AIDS Day Celebration in Los Angeles
Minority AIDS Project and Unity Fellowship Church Social Justice Ministries present:
WORLD AIDS DAY 2001 CELEBRATION
Youth 2 Youth: Keeping It Real
Friday, November 30, 2001
3pm - 7pm
at UFCSJ Center
5148 W. Jefferson Blvd., Los Angeles
FREE FOOD!
BOMB ENTERTAINMENT!
PRIZE GIVE AWAYS!
LIVE DJ!
Invitation Only - Must RSVP 866.227.4512
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5. BIKE OUT Art Show/Party in Santa Monica
You're invited to a totally groovy art show and party with food, drink, art and music...
Sunday, December 2, 2-6 p.m.
at Highways Performance Space & Art Gallery
1651 18th Street, Santa Monica (one block north of Olympic)
Live music by the Dave Shephard Jazz Trio, and complimentary hors d'oeuvres.
Cost is $25.00 in advance, $35.00 at the door.
Ticket price includes admission to the art exhibit and silent auction
(auction items: dinners, bikes, trips to Spain and Hawaii, massage, yoga
classes, theater tickets, more.)
For advance tickets, please make a check out to BIKE OUT and send (PLEASE NOTE: no credit card orders in advance OR at the door) to:
Bike Out is a nonprofit organization that promotes health and fosters self-confidence in lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender youth and their straight supporters through challenging mountain bike expeditions.
The Women's Art Expo will feature the nation's finest artists who will show and sell their work, including: Stephanie Howard (photographer), Synthia Saint James (painter & illustrator), Cherylann Grasso (photographer), Judith Crews (hand blown glass), Stacey Halper (photographer), Sylvia Spiegel (print maker), Bonnie Dubbin Askowitz (fabric artist), Rhonda K. Johnston (pastels), Mary Rappazzo (painter), and Chris Mass (woodwork).
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6. Nelly Velasco Project Event
* * * Spiritual Healing and Dinner Night * * *
for young queer women of color, ages 14-20
December 7, 2001, 7:00-9:00pm
at the Center for Young Women's Development
1426 Fillmore St. Suite 205
San Francisco
for more info call 415-345-0260
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7. Outlet Holiday Party
Celebrate the Holidays with Outlet!
Monday, December 10th
6:30-9pm
YWCA of the Mid-Peninsula
4161 Alma St., Palo Alto, CA 94306
Food, Drinks, Music
&
A Talent Show
To sign up for the talent show, email Juan at juan@ywcamid.org
Pass this along to your GSA and all other queer & straight-ally friends!!!
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8. COLAGE Bowl-A-Thon
COLAGE BOWL-A-THON
Saturday, Dec. 8, 2001
1-3 pm
Yerba Buena Bowling Center
750 Folsom St. (btw, 3rd & 4th)
San Francisco
Wheelchair Accessible
Everyone welcome! Little kids, parents, grandparents, teens, gayby boomers, and everyone in between.
COLAGE (Children Of Lesbians And Gays Everywhere) proudly sponsors its 6th annual Bowl-A-Thon, one of our most fun and important fundraisers. This event is a favorite with Bay Area members. There'll be yummy food, ultra cool prizes, silly games for all bowlers and special awards go to many including "Best Bowling Outfit", "Most Enthusiastic Bowler" and "Highest Number of Pledges".
Bowl individually, bowl as a team, or Sponsor-A-Bowler. Join us! Put on your bowling shirt, shine up your ball, and start collecting pledges and sponsors today! Pledges and proceeds support Bay Area COLAGE programs and activities such as after-school youth programming in San Francisco's new LGBT community center, art and adventure support groups for middle schoolers, and annual family events.
It's easy to participate: 1. Contact COLAGE for a pledge sheet. 2. Ask everyone you know (your friends, family members, school-buddies, co-workers, neighborhood businesses) to sponsor you for $5, $10, $25, or more! If you can't make it, call COLAGE to Sponsor-A-Bowler or to sponsor a COLAGE middle school group or high school GSA. 3.Collect your money before the bowl-a-thon. 4. Come on down and join the bowling fun for all ages!
Contact COLAGE for a pledge form or further details:
Tel: 415-861-5437
Email: beth@colage.org
http://www.colage.org
COLAGE thanks American Airlines and National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) for their generous financial support of this event.
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empowering youth activists to fight homophobia in schools
Carolyn Laub
Executive Director
Gay-Straight Alliance Network
160 14th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
ph: 415.552.4229
fax: 415.552.4729
carolyn@gsanetwork.org
http://www.gsanetwork.org/
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Last updated 11/28/2001 by Jean Richter, richter@eecs.Berkeley.EDU