In this issue of GSA Network News, you'll find:
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1. *NEW* GSA Network News Improvements
GSA Network News can now be viewed online!
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2. GSA Network Year End Evaluation
Please take a few minutes to fill out GSA Network's Year End Evaluation. Your comments are VERY important to us!
Access the evaluation online:http://www.gsanetwork.org/yearendeval/
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3. 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.
For more info about the event and ticket prices, visit:http://www.guspresents.com/great-america.shtml
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4. Apply for Day of Silence National Student Leadership Team
Are you interested in supporting hundreds of others in your region?
Have you led the Day of Silence in your high school?
Are you an experienced Day of Silence student organizer?
Do you want to share your expertise, ensuring other student organizers have the tools needed to "Break the Silence" in their schools?
Apply today for the Day of Silence National Student Leadership Team!
DEADLINE:MAY 31, 2002
Check out http://www.dayofsilence.org
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5. Youth Space Decorating Party @ New LGBT Center (SF)
All Bay Area LGBTQQ youth and their allies (25 and younger), and LGBTQQ youth agencies are invited to a party to help decorate the new Youth Space at the SF LGBT Community Center!
When: Friday, May 31, 4-6 pm (Come before your Friday night out!)
Where: The Center, 1800 Market St. (on the JKLMN and F lines, or the 6,7,61, and 71)
What to bring: Your self and your creative decorating ideas!
Donations needed:
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6. LGBTQQ & Straight-Ally Youth Party (Bay Area)
The Sweet Tooth - "Taste the Rainbow"
Friday, May 31st
8pm-Midnight
Outlet @ YWCA of the Mid-Peninsula
4161 Alma St., Palo Alto, CA 94306
FREE!!!!
Ages 20 & Under
For more info:
(650) 494-0972 x 301
http://www.ywcamid.org/rcc/Outlet
Sponsored by:
Outlet @ YWCA of the Mid-Peninsula
Q-Kids @ Billy DeFrank Center
Gunn High School GSA
Milpitas High School GSA
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7. Spoken Word Event (LA)
Spectrum is holding a spoken word event to celebrate Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Come join us as we highlight API queer history, kick back and hear some great spoken word, and help raise funds for Spectrum's Self Expressions Nite for youth!
Thursday May 30th from 7-10:30pm
at Chinatown Service Center's Youth Center
727 N. Broadway #212, L.A. 90012
(Far East Plaza - the one w/ Sam Woo, Wing Hop Fung & Ten Ren)
$2 at the door if you're 21 and under!
$5 if you're over 21!
*Light refreshments will be provided*
Spectrum is a queer and questioning youth group brought to you by Chinatown Service Center and Asian Pacific Health Care Venture!
For more info, contact:
spectrumyouth@hotmail.com
Bev at 213.808.1769
or Xotchil at 323.644.3880 x263
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8. Queer Camp 2002 (Santa Cruz)
QUEER CAMP 2002
Santa Cruz mountains
Save the dates!
Register by June 7th, 2002
Camp is from June 17th-21st, 2002
(arrive Mon from 4-6pm, leave Fri at 3pm)
Please plan on attending the entire event.
For more information and to request a registration form, call 831-335-5861.
Registration forms can also be found at the Billy DeFrank Center in San Jose (938 The Alameda).
The event is sponsored by STRANGE, Santa Cruz Area Radical Faeries, Qkids!, UCSC LGBT Resource Center, the Santa Cruz Diversity Center & the ADAM foundation.
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9. Workshop on Talking With Your Children About Sexual Orientation
LGBT Families:Talking With Your Children About Sexual Orientation (all ages)
Thursday, July 25,
7:00 -8:30 p.m.
Led by Pnina Tobin, MPA
Are your children uncomfortable, or do they get teased because you are lesbian and gay? How should you come out to your kids? Discussion to share experiences and learn strategies.
$20 per person
Pre-registration is required for all groups. Your space will not be guaranteed until your completed registration form and full payment is received.
Parents Place services are available on a sliding scale.
For further info or to register, please call Peninsula Parents Place AT 650-688-3040 or email ParentsPlacePeninsula@jfcs.org
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10. URGENT ACTION ALERT:Juvenile Probation Commission Mtg. (today!)
The Center for Young Women's Development has spent over a year conducting a community organizing campaign to protect the rights of incarcerated youth in San Francisco's detention facilities. This campaign arose from the concerns of youth themselves, and youth have been at the forefront of this campaign every step of the way.
We have focused on the rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning (LGBTQQ) youth, due to the almost constant harassment and discrimination they face while incarcerated. We worked with the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights and the National Center for Lesbian Rights to draft a model anti-discrimination policy that would protect not only LGBTQQ youth, but also all youth from harassment and discrimination on the basis of gender, sex, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion, ability or class status. This policy would be the first of its kind in the nation, and a model for other cities and counties who want to protect youth while they are in custody. While this policy will not, by itself, end discrimination, with proper implementation it will be a big step in the right direction.
In March 2002, The Center received verbal commitments from San Francisco's Juvenile Justice and Probation Commissions to work with us to strategize the implementation and oversight of this policy. Since then, we have met numerous times with representatives from City agencies and community allies. We have engaged in this effort with good faith, and expected that our policy would be ratified by this summer. We have been willing to compromise on many points:we were willing to allow the Ombudsperson at San Francisco's Youth Guidance Center to have jurisdiction over complaints that fall within policy areas, rather than an independent Equity Coordinator; we agreed to allowing the Juvenile Justice Commission to oversee the implementation of the policy with community representation, rather than an independent body; and we have worked hard to ensure that the language of the policy does not conflict with existing City policies. While we have been successful in addressing all of the Juvenile Justice and Probation Commissions' concerns, the City Attorney is not willing to hold staff in youth detention facilities accountable for discriminatory behavior. They are proposing that the policy be changed to address youth to youth harassment only. We cannot accept this. We need to hold staff who are charged with the welfare of our youth accountable when they inflict harassment and abuse on those they are charged with protecting.
On Wednesday, May 22 the Juvenile Probation Commission is holding a closed door meeting to discuss this issue at 5:30 pm at the Visitacion Valley Community Beacon, 450 Raymond St. Please attend and join us in letting the commission know how important the implementation of the anti-discrimination is to the community.
- Center for Young Women's Development.
For more information, call Jessica at (415) 345-0264.
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11. Job Announcements from LYRIC
Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center (LYRIC) is a non-profit organization providing educational, recreational and peer-leadership development activities for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth under 24 years of age.
LYRIC currently has the following job openings:
Art and Media Program Coordinator (this staff person collaborates with GSA
Network staff on Free Zone, the GSA Network/LYRIC arts for social change
program) - Apply by June 1st
Kickin' It Project Coordinator - Apply by June 1st
Young Women's Program Coordinator - Apply by June 1st
Outreach Intern - Apply by May 27th
To receive the full job announcements and descriptions, please e-mail Tracy Boggs, LYRIC program director:tracy@lyric.org.
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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 5/22/2002 by Jean Richter, richter@eecs.Berkeley.EDU