February E-Newsletter
Volume IV / Issue 2 / February 9, 2008
www.respectsacramento.org
2. Next meeting February 13 at The Lavender Library
Our regular monthly meetings have returned to the Lavender Library Archives and Cultural Exchange at
1414 21st Street. Our meetings will continue to be held on the second Wednesday of the month at 6:30
pm. Hope you can make it!
That's enough for now. Did I leave anything out? Please drop me a line. Do you have an
announcement or item that you'd like to include in our newsletter? Would you like to write an opinion
piece about something in the LGBT education area? Tell us about what's going on in your GSA! Send
complaints, comments, or submissions to admin@respectsacramento.org and I will be happy to place
it in our newsletter, which is composed at the end of the current month and sent out in the first week
of the subsequent month. Make this your newsletter by contributing to it!

See you at our next meeting on February 13 at the Lavender Library, 1414 21st Street at 6:30 pm.

Jerry O'Connor
Respect Sacramento Board Member

Respect Sacramento
PO Box 191678
Sacramento CA 95819
(916) 733-2135
info@respectsacramento.org
www.respectsacramento.org
1. From the Editor: Dance! Dance! Dance!

GSAs and individual high school students interested in helping to plan and
participate in this year's GSA Dance are invited to our next regular meeting of
Respect Sacramento on Wednesday February 13 at 6:30pm at the Lavender
Library, 1414 21st Street in midtown Sacramento. Students from around the area
work to put on their own dance in the Spring. Join us!

Donna can still use more participants for her survey:
You are invited to participate in a Survey of Parents or Caregivers of "trans" youth
(youth who are transgender, transsexual or gender variant and currently 25
years old or younger). This survey is appropriate for all parents/caregivers,
including foster parents, shelter staff and extended family members.

Click here to download the survey (Adobe PDF form)

The goal of this study is to lead to improved mental health services and other
supports for transgender youth and their families and caregivers. You may be
receiving the survey directly from the researcher (Donna Matthews) or someone
may be forwarding this to you because they think you can help. The survey
should only take 20 minutes or so to complete since most questions are "check
off" questions and only several are written responses. Feel free to print it out and
return it and the consent form on the first two pages by mail (see below) or email
it to transfamilysurvey@comcast.net.  

Please return completed materials as soon as possible, but no later than
February 15th! (Think: Return it by Valentine's Day latest).
Feel free to share this with others.  

Thanks so very much!
-Donna Matthews, MSW Graduate Student, CSUS

Donna Matthews/TransFamilySurvey
P. O. Box 5083
Sacramento, CA 95817
transfamilysurvey@comcast.net

The next Sacramento City Unified School District LGBT Task Force meeting will
be held on Monday, February 25 from 4:30 to 6 pm. The location is "to be
announced," so check in at our website before the meeting to get the location.
The last meeting was well attended and we heard from the district about the staff
surveys in response to recent trainings. More to come!
In this edition
1. From the Editor: Dance, survey, LGBT task force
2. Next meeting February 13 at The Lavender Library
3. eQuality Scholarship deadline is February 16!
4. Day of Silence April 25
3. eQuality Scholarships

The eQuality Scholarship Collaborative awards scholarships to graduating high-school seniors in northern
and central California for their service to the LGBT community. In 2008, 10 or more $5000 scholarships will
be awarded to assist with post-secondary educational expenses - tuition, books, and supplies.

Applications are available from high school guidance counselors throughout Northern and Central
California.

Applicants must:
- be graduating from a high school in northern or central California;
- have applied to an accredited post-secondary institution - college, university, or trade school.

Completed applications, including transcripts and a letter of recommendation, must be postmarked no
later than February 16, 2008.

The Collaborative is the joint effort of a group of individuals and organizations based in the San Francisco
Bay Area. Organizational members include PG&E PrideNetwork, KP Pride, Genentech Out & Equal, Ally
Action, Out & Equal Workplace Advocates, and GSA Network.

For more information or to download an application, visit the Collaborative's web site at
http://www.allyaction.org/scholarship.
4. Day of Silence April 25

The Day of Silence is an annual event held to bring attention to anti-LGBT bullying, harassment and
discrimination in schools. Students and teachers nationwide will observe the day in silence to echo the
silence that LGBT and ally students face everyday. The Day of Silence is one of the largest student-led
actions in the country.

To find out more information, register your GSA or group, learn how to organize, get materials, and stay
involved, go to www.dayofsilence.org.