K-12 academy hosts 'Queer State of the Union' 'Hollyweird High' featured 'Crossdressing Day,'

BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS
K-12 academy hosts 'Queer State of the Union'
'Hollyweird High' featured 'Crossdressing Day,' 'Menage a Prom'

With same-sex marriage in the headlines, an elite Southern California prep academy distinguished for its "Crossdressing Day" and "Ménage à Prom" will host a forum tonight titled A Queer State of the Union, featuring a state lawmaker and prominent homosexual activists.

Crossroads School for the Arts & Sciences in Santa Monica, where many Hollywood celebrities send their children, was dubbed "Hollyweird High" by authors Andrew Breitbart and Mark Ebner in their book "Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon -- The Case Against Celebrity."

According to faculty member Adam Behrman, who is the forum's moderator, the school has a "sexual orientation curriculum" that includes instruction to kindergarten through fifth-grade students about how "there are different kinds of families, which include families with two mommies and two daddies."

Behrman is faculty adviser for a campus "gay-straight" group called FLAG, Friends of Lesbians and Gays, which staged a theater production called "Everything Possible: A Gay Odyssey." Focusing on the "coming out journey" of a 15-year-old student, it was written and performed by many straight students who acted as homosexuals. The play included a scene of two boys kissing. The emotional response of seventh graders to the production apparently was the catalyst for the start of middle-school gay-straight alliance.

In interviews with Queer Youth TV, Behrman said he is seeing more youth explore their "sexual orientation."

"One thing I'm starting to notice in the last year or two … which is really, really cool, not just at Crossroads, but other places, that it's becoming more and more OK for people who are probably largely toward the straight end of the spectrum to really think about, 'You know, maybe I'm bisexual,'" he said in an interview segment on the Queer Youth website.

Behrman said the response is "not from a, 'Oh, it's trendy to be bi,' but really thinking, like, well, 'OK, maybe I don't have to limit myself … what am I shutting myself off to?'"

Noting he also works at a camp in Vermont, Behrman said some of the 13 and 14 year olds there also are exploring bisexuality.

"And some of them may turn out to not be bi at all but really be authentically straight," he said, "but they are still willing to consider, like actively consider, and share it with an adult, 'Yeah, I don't know, maybe I'm bisexual. What does that mean and who am I?'"

Behrman said every student in middle school and high school at Crossroads has one hour or two hours each week of "life skills," where the issue of sexual orientation is among the subjects discussed with about 15 other students, led by a teacher or trained facilitator.

The forum tonight includes nationally-known homosexual-rights speakers and activists such as California state Assembly member Jackie Goldberg of Los Angeles, who as part of the legislature's "Gay Caucus" helped pass a number of bills promoting homosexual rights last year.

Others featured are Rev. Troy Perry, founder of the predominantly homosexual Metropolitan Community Churches Worldwide; Stephen Macias, entertainment media director for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation; Geoffrey Kors, executive director for Equality California, a prominent group in the push for same-sex marriage; and R. Bradley Sears, professor of law at UCLA.

A promotion for the event, which is free and open to the public, says, "Queer issues have dominated the headlines recently and are also prominent in the current presidential campaign. Join us as we explore the latest developments."

Special Guests will include Phranc, described as the "all-American Jewish lesbian folksinger and Tupperware lady" who will "open up the evening with music to delight & amaze us." Bob Smith, "the first openly gay comedian to appear on The Tonight Show as well as to star in his own HBO special … will offer us a humorous look at the queer state of current affairs."

On its website, Crossroads says it was founded in 1971 as a "distinctively progressive school offering an intellectually demanding and creative curriculum within a supportive, personal environment that has at its base the notion of safety, equity, and inclusion for all."

21 posted on 03/04/2004 11:35:40 AM PST by EdReform (Support Free Republic - All donations are greatly appreciated. Thank you for your support!)

Homosexual Agenda Alert.

This is also a MUST READ - about the full-on indoctrination and predation of OUR children.

I can't believe the information out there today. Full load, disgusting, but the reason the "gay" activists got us where we are today is because too many of us had our heads in the sand, or we were scared rabbits, afraid of being called names, or just too busy with other things.

If we don't get informed and defeat this evil, the future is very grim. Worse than if Sauron got the ring.

Let me know if anyone wants on/off this ping list.

22 posted on 03/04/2004 11:51:23 AM PST by little jeremiah (...men of intemperate minds can not be free. Their passions forge their fetters.)

As a young guy in my twenties I'm prolly one of the FReepers least likely to moan that society is going to hell in a handbasket, but there is something very disturbing about the way our culture is handling sex these days.

Kids are encouraged to experiment at younger and younger ages. You only have one chance to be a child. W/ viagra or like drugs you can have sex into your sixties.

At least one federal judge has some sense:

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/state/030304_APstate_gaystudents.html

As far as the school in this article is concerned, I realize this den of iniquity is a private school, but how are parents who don't want their children subjected to this going to convince the public schools that they don't want it for their kids, and if the public schools refuse to be responsive, are parents going to muster up the initiative to pull their kids out en masse and start private or religious schools?

If they don't want this for their kids, they're going to have to confront school officials and stop it in its tracks.

"Eberstadt is concerned that these sites are encouraging young boys and girls to think sexually at ever younger ages....."

Oh, ya think?....

26 posted on 03/04/2004 6:15:59 PM PST by squidly (Money is inconvenient for them: give them victuals and an arse-clout, it is enough.)

What moronic "parents" would send their youngsters to such a perverted school?

Homosexuals belong right up there with terrorists as Public Enemy No. 1. Following them would be organizations like ACLU and the simpleton sycophants who mouth platitudes about how homosexuals are a minority and as such should be protected. This minority has become an "in your face" disgrace to this nation and to the world. If more uninformed people completely understood how this sick segment of our population gets their jollies and what their agenda is they'd puke their guts out!

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