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		<title>GroundSpark Needs Volunteers!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brittney Shepherd, Staff Producer at GroundSpark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GroundSpark Needs Volunteers! 
We are looking for a few special people to help with mailings, processing film sales, data entry and database maintenance (must know Filemaker).  If you are in the Bay Area and can commit to a few hours per week, please join us!  
Please contact Zeena Batliwalla, Development Associate, to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Straightlaced Wins a CINE Golden Eagle Award!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year the CINE Golden Eagle Award is bestowed upon filmmakers as a recognition of excellence in production. Straightlaced was one of the films chosen for the award this year and we are definitely excited about this!
With the West Coast film festival premiere last week at Frameline, the FREE Los Angeles screening at OutFest, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Straightlaced at Frameline in San Francisco</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brittney Shepherd, Staff Producer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Straightlaced: How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up screened at the Roxie Theater last Friday to a sold out crowd at Frameline 33: San Francisco's LGBT Film Festival! With a mixed crowd of film lovers, educators, Debra Chasnoff fans, and youth, the film was received warmly at it's West Coast film festival premiere.]]></description>
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		<title>GO Magazine graduates Debra Chasnoff to &#8220;Women We Love: Class of &#8216;09&#8243;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brittney Shepherd, Staff Producer at GroundSpark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Debra Chasnoff's landmark film, It’s Elementary – Talking About Gay Issues in School, is hailed as a “model of intelligent directing” by International Documentary, and has led to profound changes in adults’ attitudes on how to talk to children about LGBT people. ]]></description>
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		<title>Frameline 33 Screens STRAIGHTLACED</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brittney Shepherd, Staff Producer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Next Friday, June 26 at 6:00 PM, Director Debra Chasnoff and Producer Sue Chen will be at the Roxie Theater for a local San Francisco screening of <a href="http://groundspark.org/straightlaced"><strong>Straightlaced</strong></a>
http://www.frameline.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=1718&#038;FID=45]]></description>
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		<title>Success in Alameda!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 23:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brittney Shepherd, Staff Producer at GroundSpark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Great news from the Alameda School Board! Last night, the board approved their LGBT-inclusive bullying prevention curriculum, despite the outspoken conservative critics from outside the district who flooded their town hall meetings. Their approval contains no opt-out provision, which means every student in the district will receive instruction on learning empathy and respect for difference. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debra Chasnoff Debates!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 23:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debra Chasnoff was on the Laura Ingraham show on May 19th where she debated Brad Dacus of the Pacific Justice Institute about the Alameda School District&#8217;s plan to include sexual orientation non-discrimination in their anti-bullying programs. 
Chasnoff stated, &#8220;Anti-gay harassment is increasingly contributing to some of the worst cases of bullying and of mental health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suing A School District To End Bullying</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 22:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Schwartz, National Outreach and Media Relations Manager</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to Vallejo Unified&#8217;s settlement of a lawsuit about anti-LGBT harassment, the Angie Coiro show is going to be talking about safe schools litigation tonight. On the show from 6:30-6:50ish will be Lance from  Straightlaced, who filed his own lawsuit. He will be talking about his own experiences as well as Straightlaced.
You can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch Dustin Lance Black and Bruce Cohen Talk About &#8220;Straightlaced&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 17:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brittney Shepherd, Staff Producer at GroundSpark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our Los Angeles Premiere of Straightlaced&#8211;How Gender&#8217;s Got Us All Tied Up was last week and we had a wonderful turn out! 
We were thrilled to have Academy Award winners, Dustin Lance Black and Bruce Cohen of Milk, on hand to help welcome the film. You can watch their opening remarks below!

  
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		<title>Straightlaced Coming to New York!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 22:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brittney Shepherd, Staff Producer at GroundSpark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GROUNDBREAKING DOCUMENTARY ON GENDER NORMS IN HIGH SCHOOLS STRAIGHTLACED PREMIERES IN NEW YORK, TUESDAY MAY 26 AT HUNTER COLLEGE
New York, NY : The New York City benefit premiere of the new feature-length documentary Straightlaced&#8211;How Gender&#8217;s Got Us All Tied Up, will be held at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College 7:00pm on Tuesday, May 26. [...]]]></description>
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