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NC teen is on GLSEN's "Teaching
Respect for AIT' leadership team
I Pride Worldwide!
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Equality NC represents state
at LGBT Federation meet
AIDS Conference: Part 2
Rex Wockner wrap-up
MCC Region 7 holds First
Regional Conference {
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invites all healthcare pros i'
A teen from Lewisville, NC has been
selected as one of 12 student leaders from
across the country to form GLSEN’s “Teaching
Respect for All" conference planning team.
The annual conference hosts more than 4500
LGBT students
seeking advice and
networking from
other successful
school programs
and their leaders.
For Rachael
Price, it is a naturally
evolving
achievement in her
young activist life.
Rachael Price, 16, is
a rising Junior in
West Forsyth High
School. She has
served as president
of the Gay/Straight
Alliance — not
school-sponsored
Rachael Price
GLSEN student leader
President of
Gay/Straight Alliance
West Forsyth HS
she emphasized —since her sophomore year.
A friend who founded the group, encouraged
Rachael to take the helm. There was a very
brief co-presidency with someone else “that
didn’t work out too well,” Price said. And so,
she has shouldered the responsibility since.
The purpose of GSA is to provide a safe
place for students — a place to talk and find
support.
Rachael knows all about the need for
shelter from harassment first hand. Her
friends readily accepted her coming out and
are very supportive. They are proud of her for
not shying away from the person she is.
Many students in school are not kind,
tolerant or particularly interested in getting
educated. She has endured endless name
calling. Some of the teachers come to her
defense but, “most teachers don’t do anything
about it," she said.
That is what motivates Rachael Price. “We
are all human beings and deserve to be treated
well. We must learn to live together.”
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In The Life Atlanta celebrates
Black LGBT Pride weekend
Nation's third largest Black Pride
celebration expects you there
In The Life Atlanta celebrates Black
Lesbian. Gay, Bisexual, and TLansgender Pride
for the 7th consecutive year. ITLA brings to
you “EVOLUTION: Everything Old is New
Again” BGP 2002. It is the nation’s third
largest Black Pride celebration.
As the official organizers of Black Gay
Pride weekend, ITLA is sponsoring a variety of
programs specifically geared towards the
needs of the Black LGBT community. ITLA
was formed in 1996 to serve the needs of
Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/TLanssexual people of
African descent.
Each year, ITLA hosts close to fifteen
thousand visitors during Labor Day weekend.
The weekend begins on Thursday with a
candlelight vigil celebrating the lives of those
who have transitioned from this life, but have
left us with a legacy of pride, strength, and
empowerment that we cherish and celebrate.
Friday night begins the weekend
events with the opening
ceremony, which takes place
at the host hotel.
Speakers, performance
artists, and a welcome
from ITLA’s Board of
Directors are the start of
an exciting and high
paced weekend. As Saturday rolls in, the
many activities and workshops sponsored by
ITLA begin. Topics such as parenthood,
relationships, finances, and spirituality are
the centerpiece of the weekend programs.
Other activities in the,worJs for the .weekend
OLD IQ NCW AfiAlN
Marchers in last year's Black LGBT Pride
parade — in the rain ... of course!
are a health and wellness fair, family picnic,
LBGT film screening, plays by some of our
local talent and a political roundtable
luncheon discussion featuring prominent
LGBT community leaders. There will also be
appearances by noted Lesbian and Gay
authors at local LGBT bookstores
vendors providing
merchandise and
^ collectables at the host
hotel, as well as poetry
J ^ readings and art displays.
^ Working closely with
community businesses and
the City of Atlanta, ITLA
plans to bring the best of Atlanta to all visitors.
Visitors can expect to have an abundance of
choices for evening festivities ranging from
parties at local clubs and bars, to exciting
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UNC task force
recommends
sexuality studies
CHAPEL HILL — In an effort to promote
understanding and tolerance of the gay
community, a University of North Carolina
campus task force has recommended a new
academic program in sexuality studies.
Students in the program would earn a
certificate - akin to a minor - after completing
five courses that focus on sexuality. Classes
would delve into issues of sexual identity, sexual
ambiguity and the role of sex in society, politics,
law, art, history and religion.
By most accounts, UNC is more tolerant
toward the gay community than it was a decade
ago, but there are still reports of violence and
harassment. Just this spring, someone made a
bomb threat and demanded that Chancellor
James Moeser denounce homosexuality.
Many thought the university could be doing
more.
“There’s a clear sense that UNC was not
setting the trend when compared to other
public universities,” said Pamela Conover, a
professor of political science who led the
campus task force.
Supporters of the proposed sexuality studies
program liken it to women’s studies or African-
American studies. In the 1990s. programs in
sexuality sprang up and gained acceptance in
academia around the country.
Duke University approved one of the
nation’s first certificate programs in sexuality
studies in the mid 1990s.
“In the last five years, just about every
podunk college in the United States has
established something," said John Younger, a
classics professor who spearheaded the Duke
program and operates a website which tracks
the field nationally, “it’s very mainstream. I find
it fascinating that UNC has languished until
now.”
Younger, who has since joined the faculty at
Kansas University, said issues of sexuality are
everywhere today, from sex in advertising to the
sexual misdeeds of Catholic priests to the
sexual dominance of men over women in
societies such as Afghanistan.
UNC already has a number of courses
dealing with homosexuality in art, history,
politics and literature.
Most were developed with grants from a
$200,000 bequest by UNC alumnus Charles
Williamson, a San Francisco doctor who died in
1992. Among the courses taught: “The New
Queer Cinema,” “Gay and Lesbian Culture in
the Hispanic World,” “Sexuality and the Law,”
and “Gay Men, Lesbians and US Visual Culture
since 1970.”
Although GLBT students are more likely to
be drawn to the courses, the program is not a
special-interest curriculum, said Conover,
whose “Politics of Sexuality” class is two-
thirds straight students. The task force
specifically chose the broad term “sexuality
studies” for that reason.
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