Free Oral History Course Documenting Gay/Straight Alliances
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Posted by , April 03, 2008
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Stonewall Communities and The History Project invite you to join us for this FREE ORAL HISTORY COURSE
Tuesdays, April 8, 15, 22, 29, May 6 & 13 2:30 - 4:15 pm
Stonewall Communities’ Lifelong Learning Institute
Wheelock College - Brookline Campus 43 Hawes Street, Brookline, MA
Few social movements in the past 25 years have engaged young Americans so broadly as the Gay/Straight Alliance (GSA) movement. This movement, which emerged in the Boston area in 1987 and is transforming American schools, endeavors to make schools safe for all students, irrespective of sexual orientation or gender expression. There are currently GSAs in 4,000 high schools across the country.
Classes will include discussions of readings, guest speakers, and training in oral history. Participants will have the opportunity to interview and videotape activists in the field, though participation in the course does not require field work.
Confirmed Speakers:
-Arthur Lipkin, Cambridge Rindge & Latin GSA Advisor, retired
-Ellen Abdow, Brookline HS GSA Advisor
-Melissa Butarro, GSA Advisor, Reading HS and Lexington HS
-Kate Cremens Basbas, Former GSA Advisor (Arlington)
-Mycroft Holmes, former student activist - Newton North HS
-Sarah Lonberg-Lew, former student activist - Brookline HS
-Grace Sterling Stowell, Director, BAGLY
-Kim Westheimer and Jeff Perrotti, Mass DOE Safe Schools program and co-authors of When the Drama Club is not Enough: Lesson from the Safe Schools Program
-Al Toney, educator and consultant
-Janet Dendy, Lowell High School GSA Advisor, retired
-Pam Garramone, Director, Boston PFLAG
-Prof. Pat Gozemba, author, Courting Equality
Course Leaders:
Bob Parlin has taught History at Newton South H.S. for 25 years. He and has been a leader in the GSA movement and helped found GLSEN.
Michael Connolly, Director of the Stonewall Communities LLI, has been a teacher, trainer, and consultant, as well as Volunteer Director and HR Director at the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts.
Contact mconnolly@cambridgeconsulting.com to sign up!
Funded by the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities.
