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Education
. . .
Providing
education
to individuals, families and our community . . .
.
. . is the key to reshaping attitudes, challenging myths
and misinformation, and changing our world for the
better. To help you gain understanding, we
offer educational articles, discussions, links to
relevant news stories, and more below. To the
community, we offer two FREE services:
Our
Speakers Bureau
Our Speaker Bureau
volunteers
are available to speak to
your
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organization, etc.,
on whatever topic(s)
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Our
'Safe Space' volunteers will happily
tailor a program to fit your specific
needs/interests for school
administrators, faculty, students
and/or
parents.
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As you explore this educational section,
please remember that we are here to
answer questions you may
have, and most certainly to provide any
support you may
need.
Now, get ready
to
open
your heart -- and
expand
your mind!
Where to Start?
How
About A Quick Quiz To Test What You (Think You) Know?
Test Your
Knowledge: The GLBTQ Knowledge Assessment
Tool*
The following are random articles that
we've run across that serve to enlighten and educate on
particular topics or issues. They are grouped by
topic, with more recent articles appearing at the top of
each group.
The
Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender Community: An
Unprecedented In-Depth Focus
Check out this extraordinary in-depth
look at the GLBT community today, what issues are
prominent, and much, much more! Hats off to
CNN for an incredibly detailed focus on our often
overlooked and maligned community.
A
CNN
Special Report:
Fighting For Acceptance . . .
. . . a focus
on the gay, lesbian, bisexual
and transgender communities.
(This series
aired during July, 2007's
national Pride Week.)
What is your
perspective of gay life in
America? Do you think
America is now more accepting of
homosexuality?
CNN's "Uncovering America"
series takes an in-depth
look at attitudes and issues
surrounding homosexuality and
gender in America today.
Click here for links to
online reports and videos
presented in this unprecedented
CNN series.
Coming
out didn’t hurt career, Kolbe says Retiring gay
GOP congress-man says speaking out
changed his life
By his
own admission, retiring U.S. Rep. Jim
Kolbe is an unusual Republican. A
congressman from southeastern Arizona,
Kolbe favored abortion rights, backed
stem cell research and [more]
06/18/07:
New Ground in Debate on 'Curing'
Gays.
Christian ministries who see
homosexuality as a treatable disorder are starting
to think that choice may not be a factor.
[link]
Truth Wins OUT:
A
new non-profit organization whose
mission is to counter right-wing
propaganda, expose the ‘ex-gay’
myth, and educate America about gay
life.
Resource:
James Dobson's
False Focus on My Family: Why
every person of faith should be deeply troubled
by Dr. James
Dobson’s dangerous and misleading
words about the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender community"
09/16/07:
Transitioning into new jobs and genders:
At the first transgender career expo, men and
women meet companies that
accept them for who they
are becoming.
If sexual orientation is
biological, are the traits that make
people seem gay innate, too? The new
research on everything from voice pitch
to hair whorl. (06/25/2007)
[link]
Example
A: Hair Whorl (Men)
Gay men are more
likely than straight men to have a
counterclockwise whorl.
"60 Minutes" Asks:
Born Gay
or Straight?
Is
it possible to pinpoint what makes a
person homosexual or heterosexual?
One scientist thinks so, and is
conducting a groundbreaking study of
same-sex twins. Could something in
the utero cause one to grow up
straight and the other gay? CBS
reporter Lesley Stahl reports on
this "60 Minutes" segment which
originally aired on March 12, 2006.
06/25/07: The Science of 'Gaydar':
If sexual orientation is biological, are the traits
that make people seem gay innate, too? The new
research on everything from voice pitch to hair
whorl.
Alan Shore (from the television series Boston Legal)
speaks on Homosexuality:
The
plaintiff is an elderly judge suing to recover $40,000
he paid to a religious rehab clinic which promised to
cure him of being gay - it didn't work.
Echo
Magazine Cover Story
Features PFLAG Phoenix Parents
The June 15th, 2006 issue of Echo
Magazine features a cover story on three PFLAG
Phoenix families.
Included are:
Pat & Rex, "new" PFLAG parents of a
young gay adult son;
Shirley & Dean, "seasoned" PFLAG parents of
four children, two of which are gay;
Marilyn & John, "veteran" PFLAG parents of a
transgender adult daughter.
Click here to read this wonderful story
about these amazing PFLAG Phoenix families!
Also available:
Read the
personal stories
of more PFLAG parents, including some by local PFLAG
parents.
School
Issues
"How
MANY gay, lesbian, bisexual,
and/or transgender kids
are in OUR school . . . are
in the general population?"
School
officials often ask, when
trying to determine just how
"large" a problem might be
at their school or in their
school district, "How
many GLBT kids are
actually in our school?"
Or, they ask "What is the
percentage of GLBT kids
in the general population?"
The unfortunate point they
are missing when they ask
these questions is this:
Must you have a certain
quota of GLBT kids
before you offer to
protect them and provide
them a safe and welcoming
learning environment?
If there's only one
GLBT kid in your school, or
in your school district,
isn't that one kid worthy?Of course it's your duty
as a school official to
treat that one kid equally.
How could you think
otherwise?
Wait!
There's more! Be sure
to click on the "what
people think" link
once at this site --it's an amazing short clip of real people's
(challenged) thoughts on this issue.
01/22/06:
Your Child and Bullying: Tips for Parents
and Communities
(Related Link:
Go to the Department of Health and Human
Services Web site
www.StopBullyingNow.hrsa.gov to find the tip sheets that parents, peers, kids, administrators, law
enforcement, educators and communities can follow to do their part in making a difference in the lives of children who
are being bullied.)
Our
'Safe Space' volunteers will happily
tailor a program to fit your specific
needs/interests for school
administrators, faculty, students
A
CNN
Special Report:
Is
it possible to pinpoint what makes a
person homosexual or heterosexual?
One scientist thinks so, and is
conducting a groundbreaking study of
same-sex twins. Could something in
the utero cause one to grow up
straight and the other gay? CBS
reporter Lesley Stahl reports on
this "60 Minutes" segment which
originally aired on March 12, 2006. 
Pat & Rex, "new" PFLAG parents of a
young gay adult son;
"How
MANY gay, lesbian, bisexual,
and/or transgender kids
