In this issue of GSA Network News, you'll find:
A Queer Camp of 31 Fabulous Flavors created for queer teen youth, by youth and their allies will be held in the Santa Cruz Mountains this weekend, August 17-19, 2001.
Organizers are billing it as a safe place for all queer, lesbian, gay, bi, trans, questioning, and queer friendly youth to have fun and be themselves. Diversity - all flavors, colors, and ways of expressing it - will be celebrated.
Activities will include singing around the campfire, roasting marshmallows, starlight dances, a no-talent show, volleyball, heart circles, fun play shops, hiking, mask making, art in the woods and whatever else can be dreamt up.
The registration deadline is August 1 and fees are from $3.00 - $40.00 to insure the widest range of participation. It will include lodges, meals, and all activities.
This event is sponsored by STRANGE, Santa Cruz Radical Faeries, UCSC LGBT Resource Center, the Diversity Center, the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz, and the ADAM Foundation. For information call: 831.335.5861
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2. Scouting for All's 2nd Annual National Rally Week
Theme: National Recognition of Gay Scouts and All Gay Youth Week
"We will no longer tolerate our gay youth having to remain invisible out of fear. We will continue to work with other concerned individuals and groups in a united effort towards helping to create a society where our gay youth can feel safe to be who they have come blessed to be."
Scouting For All Board of Directors, Volunteers and Members
Date: August 19 through the 25. Some Rallies will occur before and after the official National Rally Week.
Location: The National Rally will occur throughout the United States and internationally at various locations. For Rally locations go to the Scouting for All web page, http://www.scoutingforall.org and click the National Rally icon at the top of the home page.
This year's National Rally will be "kicked off" by our Albuquerque, New Mexico Scouting for All Alliance for Human Rights members. The contact person is Ellen Grigsby qegrigsby@yahoo.com. The date of this first Rally is Saturday, August 11th.
Purpose: The purpose of this national annual event is to get the Boy Scouts of America to rescind its discriminatory policy against gay youth and adults as well as atheists. Each year a new theme will be selected. This will mark Scouting For All's 2nd National Annual Rally. Last year's theme was "Give voice by protesting the Supreme Court James Dale / BSA Decision." Last year's protest lead to the creation of Scouting For All's National Campaign.
The purpose of this year's theme is to acknowledge, recognize, and embrace gay youth with an empowering message. The Rally occurring across the USA and internationally will be a vehicle to give voice to this healing message.
For Further Information you can contact each Rally site by going to http://www.scoutingforall.org and clicking the National Rally icon at the top of the S4A home page. You can reach Scott Cozza, National Rally Coordinator at cozzahived@aol.com
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3. COLAGE Member Survey
Dear Friend of COLAGE,
We would like to invite you to participate in a Web-based survey about COLAGE. Your feedback will help COLAGE improve our programs and services to better meet your needs. Please share it with your friends and family members. We would like to receive input from as many people as possible.
The survey is easy to complete and should take about 10 minutes to finish.
To begin the survey, please click on the URL address below, or copy and paste the address into your Internet browser's address window.
http://www.sotech.com/999016/start.asp
COLAGE would like to receive input from as diverse a pool of people as possible. We are hoping to receive surveys from people in all kinds of lgbt families, including: gay-headed households; families of color; people in rural areas, the South, the Mid-West, and the Southwest; bi and trans-headed households; and families formed through adoption or surrogacy. We are also holding focus groups for families like these, if you would like to participate, please contact us right away by calling us at 415-861-KIDS (5437) or by email, director@colage.org.
If you are under the age of 12, you may want to ask somebody for help completing the survey.
Thank you for participating in this effort to improve COLAGE. We hope you enjoy the survey!
Sincerely,
Felicia Park-Rogers
Executive Director
PRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY
COLAGE is working with Modalis, an international, full-service market research firm that values your privacy. All of your responses will be kept confidential.
Please contact Jen Brown by email at jen.brown@al.modalis.com or by calling 1-800-576-2728, if you have any questions about the survey. Please refer to project number 999-016.
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empowering youth activists to fight homophobia in schools
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 8/16/2001 by Jean Richter, richter@eecs.Berkeley.EDU