In this issue of GSA Network News, you'll find:

1. Art for Change:GSA Network Fundraisers (SF and Sacramento)
2. Upcoming GSA Leadership Training:East Bay
3. Free Zone 2002 Applications Now Available (Bay Area)
4. Free Tickets for Great America's "Gay/Lesbian Night" (Bay Area)
5. Poster Available From LYRIC
6. Horse Latitudes - Play at Jon Sims Center (SF)
7. Smoking Cessation Program for Youth (Orange County)

art for change:youth art auction and benefit for GSA Network

art for change will benefit GSA Network's Make It Real Project, a youth-led effort to ensure implementation of AB 537, the California Student Safety and Violence Prevention Act of 2000, a ground-breaking law protecting students from harassment and discrimination on the basis of actual and perceived sexual orientation and gender identity in California public schools.

$100 - Champion
$50 - Supporter
$35 - Individual Ticket
$10 - Limited income
Free - Youth 18 and under

San Francisco Event:
Saturday, June 8, 7-9 p.m.
Z Center, 2211 Mission St. at 18th St., San Francisco
Program will include youth speakers and performances to be announced.

Sacramento Event:
Monday, June 24, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Club 21, 1119 21st Street, Sacramento
Program will feature the author of AB 537, Senator Sheila Kuehl, and Amador High School student Brianna Pulskamp-Lockhart

For more information, call 415.552.4229 or email artforchange@gsanetwork.org

GSA Network is still accepting donations of artwork for both of these events. To submit your work, please contact Jill at 415.552.4229 or jill@gsanetwork.org

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2. Upcoming GSA Leadership Training:East Bay

Wanna meet other people fighting homophobia?
Wanna learn how to improve your GSA?
Wanna become a leader?

*** Join us for our upcoming GSA Leadership Training! ***

Learn how to facilitate a meeting, make your GSA more inclusive, and build coalitions with other students.

All GSA Leadership Trainings are FREE. Breakfast and lunch are provided.

East Bay:
Sunday, June 2 -- 9:30am - 4:00pm
Youth Empowerment Center
1357 5th St., Oakland CA (next to West Oakland BART station)
(co-sponsored by GSA Network and Youth Force Coalition)

For more information about the East Bay Leadership Training, contact Emilie at 415.552.4229 or emilie@gsanetwork.org.

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3. Free Zone 2002 Applications Now Available (Bay Area)

Summer 2002:Make Art. Make Change.

Come out and play!

We are planning an amazing summer of fun, skill sharing, creative expression, and powerful activism. Free Zone 2002 is a collaborative program of GSA Network, LYRIC, and Mission Grafica. The summer will include training in graphic design and screen printing as well as political education workshops. The program culminates in the creation of a series of political posters expressing the hopes and issues important to the group. In addition to being shown in community venues, the posters will be used in schools by Gay-Straight Alliance clubs and teachers to fight homophobia and other oppressions.

Classes will be held at the Mission Cultural Center, 2868 Mission St (right off 24th St. Bart) in San Francisco every Tuesday and Thursday, June 18 - August 22, from 3-6:30 pm. No previous experience necessary.

Apply now:http://www.gsanetwork.org/freezone/application.html

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Free Zone is an arts for social change collaborative project of the Gay-Straight Alliance Network and LYRIC (Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center). Through arts training and education about social issues, Free Zone inspires LGBTQQ and straight ally youth to use art as a means of self-expression, activism, learning, and community-building. The artistic product created through Free Zone is used as an organizing and curriculum tool to fight homophobia and injustice in schools. GSAs build youth leadership capacity as they host the Free Zone product and educate their peers about homophobia and other injustices. For more info about the Free Zone project, visit:http://www.gsanetwork.org/freezone/.

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4. Free Tickets for Great America's "Gay/Lesbian Night" (Bay Area)

Great America's 2002 Gay/Lesbian Night will benefit GSA Network!

Friday, May 24th.
Park open from 6 p.m. - 12 a.m. Dancing 10 p.m. - 3 a.m.

GSA Network has been designated a beneficiary of Great America's annual "Gay/Lesbian Night" this year. And along with receiving a donation for every ticket sold, we also have some free tickets to give away to GSA members!

Please read the following guidelines carefully:

1. The tickets are for GSA members only! Please don't request them if you're not in a GSA.

2. We have a 4 tickets per GSA limit.

3. If your GSA is interested in going, please email emilie@gsanetwork.org by Monday 5/20 at 9:00 a.m. with the following info:
   • your name and mailing address (so we can send the tickets to you)
   • name of your school
   • number of tickets you are requesting (up to 4)
4. How recipients will be selected:On Monday morning the names of all GSAs that requested tickets will be entered into a drawing and selected at random until the tickets are gone. We will only include ONE entry per GSA, so you won't be more likely to get tickets if more than one person from your club requests them. We will notify folks by e-mail about the results of the drawing, and mail out tickets on Monday afternoon.

"We all count" posters from LYRIC

LYRIC, the Lavender youth Recreation and Information Center (http://www.lyric.org), has a poster with the words "We all count - We all make a difference. We're your teachers, neighbors, doctors, aunts, parents, firefighters, friends and we're gay and lesbian."

Available FREE. Contact Lena Turner, Outreach Coordinator, LYRIC:Lena@Lyric.org or call 415-703-6150 x 18

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6. Horse Latitudes - Play at Jon Sims Center (SF)

The Alchemy Program for Emerging Playwrights
at the Jon Sims Center presents

HORSE LATITUDES
by Nicola Harwood Directed by Tracy Ward

With Tessa Koning-Martinez, JanLee Marshall, Nicola Fordwood, Karen Hirst, Kirsten Kammermeyer, and Henry Perkins.

A white archeologist and her teenage daughter encounter a Native American mother and daughter on reservation lands in the early 1970's. As the two mothers battle to define the very ground they stand on, the daughters form a romantic bond that serves as a land bridge between their lives.

May 10-12, 17-19, 2002
$8-$15 sliding scale
No one turned away for lack of funds

All shows start at 8:00 pm

The Jon Sims Center for the Arts
1519 Mission @ 11th
SF CA 94103

For reservations and information, call 415.554.0402
or log on to http://www.jonsimsctr.org/calendar.html

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7. Smoking Cessation Program for Youth (Orange County)

STAND OUT
Smoking Cessation Program for queer youth and their supportive allies at the Orange County Youth Drop In Center in Garden Grove.

Sessions Start: Thursday, May 23, 6-7 pm

For more information call 714.590.3140

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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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