Intertg piece om Seattle Tim on gay advocy group's efforts to nnect wh natnal PTA. Can't even beg to image the lite polics volved as this progrsed. Concln -- PFLAG will be speakg and exhibg at this weekend's natnal PTA nventn.
Contents:
- GAY PARENT GROUP??
- GAY, LBIAN PTSA FORMS IN SEATTLE AREA
- L.I. GROUP TO BE NATN'S FIRST GAY PTA
- NY PTA OFFICIAL SAYS GAY GROUP NEVER GOT APPROVAL
- GAY FLIP FLOP
- LONG ISLAND'S GAY PTA IS FIRST NATN
- SPELLGS AVOIDS PTA TI TO PRO-GAY ADVOCY GROUP
GAY PARENT GROUP??
Learn how you n bee an advote for LGBTQ youth our muni. PTAs believe that schools should be a safe, supportive and rpectful environment for all stunts, cludg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer/qutng (LGBTQ) stunts. * gay group pta *
However, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer/qutng (LGBTQ) stunts are more likely than their peers to be bullied, feel unsafe school and skip school due to safety ncerns. Adopted by the 2020 Natnal PTA Board of Directors, this posn statement nmns sexual orientatn and genr inty change efforts, monly referred to as “nversn therapy, ” as proven to be effective and pose cril health risks to lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr youth, provokg mental health ndns that lead to anxiety, prsn and suici. Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer/Qutng (LGBTQ) Children and Fai Rource Page.
GAY, LBIAN PTSA FORMS IN SEATTLE AREA
Learn how you n bee an advote for LGBTQ youth our muni. PTAs believe that schools should be a safe, supportive and rpectful environment for all stunts, cludg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer/qutng (LGBTQ) stunts. * gay group pta *
In honor of LGBTQ History Month, learn more about the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer/Qutng muny and expla why support groups schools matter. Gay parent group?? A iend jt told me about a GAY PTO Massachetts; seems they felt they were not reprented by the school's formal PTA.
L.I. GROUP TO BE NATN'S FIRST GAY PTA
Learn how you n bee an advote for LGBTQ youth our muni. PTAs believe that schools should be a safe, supportive and rpectful environment for all stunts, cludg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer/qutng (LGBTQ) stunts. * gay group pta *
If all that stuff I read here is te about Liberal PTA< why would the gays be exclud?
Beg gay is a choice. Beg part of a group that supports gay rights is also a choice.
If a person don't want to belong to a group that supports gay is their choice. It has nothg to do wh the people beg gay, has to do wh gog agast a person's beliefs or morals.
NY PTA OFFICIAL SAYS GAY GROUP NEVER GOT APPROVAL
A iend jt told me about a GAY PTO Massachetts; seems they felt they were not reprented by the school's formal PTA. They were pecially upset wh... * gay group pta *
If they're gay so what.
I don't thk PTOs would discrimate agast anyone who is gay.
My hband & I know a uple of people who are gay & we don't treat them any different. A group of Seattle-area parents and teachers has anized what is believed to be the natn's first PTA chapter created to reprent the terts of gay and lbian parents, stunts and teachers. Directors of the Washgton State PTA have agreed to issue a charter for the Gay Lbian PTSA of Greater Puget Sound, which has about 50 members om several neighborg school districts.
GAY FLIP FLOP
It's a proud time for Long Island's gay muny, as the Natnal Parent Teacher Associatn and s New York State branch will allow the Long Island Gay PTA to e the PTA name. * gay group pta *
San Carmel, who is print of the new group, said she joed to help spare other fai "the utter hell" flicted on her gay son by his high-school and middle-school classmat two stat.
The Gay Lbian PTSA is part of a growg trend toward nontradnal chapters addrsg issu that aren't beg fully addrsed by school-based PTAs, Carpenter said. Pam Grotz, executive director of the Natnal PTA, today ngratulated the Washgton PTA on s acceptance of the gay and lbian group.
LONG ISLAND'S GAY PTA IS FIRST NATN
A New York group llg self the first Parent-Teacher Associatn un the untry dited to the needs of gay and lbian youths is unr fire om the print of the state PTA, who s... * gay group pta *
"If what we're gog for is the black PTA, the Hispanic PTA and the gay and lbian PTA, I don't support that, " says Pre, a former print of the Seattle Council of PTSA. "Can they go to a school and on an issue ncerng gay and lbians, would their PTA superse the school's existg one?
The ia of a Gay Lbian PTSA was first discsed by an rmal group of Seattle PTA members and gay activists two years ago, durg a ntroversy over a Pri Foundatn grant for Seattle school librari to buy books portrayg gay and lbian parents.
SPELLGS AVOIDS PTA TI TO PRO-GAY ADVOCY GROUP
* gay group pta *
Karen Tanberg, a Seattle special-tn teacher, mother of a lbian high-school graduate and treasurer of the new PTSA, said anti-gay harassment is monplace school: "It's not supposed to go on and we know 's not supposed to go on and do.