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The cost is $3. Plenty of teachers, adult
friends and other volunteers will he oh site to
ensure everyone’s safety.
Performers include Gordon Mellot, aka Ash
ley Diamond; about five performers from a semi-
professional company in Salem, including the
former Mr. Gay Oregon; and a professional
standup comedian and friends from Portland,
most likely impersonating Diana Ross and the
Supremes. Organizers promise the entertainers
will be hilarious.
The opening speaker is Linda Klinge, the
new president of Oregon’s National Organiza
tion for Women. The event also will have an
information table about AFTER 8, a lesbian, gay
and hi education and advocacy group serving
Benton and Linn counties.
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2002, Eugene Pride Day Festival. To encour- i
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age wider participation, an open meeting will be
fund-raiser for Parents, Families and Friends of
held from 1 to 3 p.m. Jan. 6 at the Eugene Water
Lesbians and Gays.
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Fourth St.
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unteers. It relies on individual donations and
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he Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education
Network announced Dec. 10 it is leading
the coordination of the Day of Silence Project,
which will take place April 10, 2002. It is the
largest youth-run gay, lesbian, hi and trans
action in the country.
Started in 1996 at University of Virginia, the
project has students take a vow of silence to
protest the discrimination faced by sexual
minorities. Instead of speaking, participants
hand out cards printed with a message explain
ing why they have chosen not to talk.
The project now occurs in hundreds of high
schools and colleges across the country. Past par
ticipants in Oregon include high schools in
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well as colleges in Ashland and Monmouth.
“Our hope is that the Day of Silence Project
allows schools to hear the powerful voices of stu
dents who protest discrimination against LGBT
people,” said Chris Tuttle, national student
organizer. “The Day of Silence Project can be a
tremendously powerful launching pad for youth
to make a concrete difference in their school
communities.”
For more information visit the Internet site
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r 'j he Safe Schools Coalition— which has
I been addressing the needs of Washington
state’s gay, lesbian, hi and trans youth for a
decade— has broken onto the national scene.
In an effort to end the isolation of gender-
nonconforming kids and their families through
out the country, the organization has launched
five new publications and two new Web sites.
They offer training ideas, curriculum suggestions
and links to thousands of brochures and posters,
many of them free.
The new publications include the third edi
tion— the first to he national— of the Safe
Schools Resource Guide ; the first-ever Washington
State Supplement to the Resource Guide; and the
first-ever youth edition of the guide, The Safe
School 'Zine, containing most of the same
resources as the educators’ materials as well as
students’ own poetry, essays and art. Also hot off
the presses are brochures about the coalition’s
shift from a statewide to a national group as well
as a one about its intervention services.
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