Digital Queeries.Hot Web site WARNING Shoe International, a new lesbian community site produced in Switzerland, takes on a distinctly international feel beginning on the main screen, where you're given a choice of seven languages. Joining the site if free, and with plenty of fun features for member--you'll find instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or (no special software required), E-cards, and the old standbys, chat rooms and message boards--Shoe gives the impression it can't quite figure out what it wants to be when it grows up. Nevertheless, it seems to be having fun along the way. http://www.shoe.org Straighten up Verb 1. straighten up - straighten oneself; "He drew himself up when he talked to his superior" draw up, pull up straighten - get up from a sitting or slouching position; "The students straightened when the teacher entered" We have parades, pink triangles The pink triangle (German: Rosa Winkel) was one of the Nazi concentration camp badges, used by the Nazis to identify male prisoners in concentration camps who were sent there because of their homosexuality. , a purple Teletubby, and a fabulous flag. Now straight people can stand tall and be counted as well--at the Straight Pride pages. Sporting its own striped "straight flag," this joke site introduces you to "some of the fine, upstanding straight men and women who prove that `straight pride is kewl!'" Perfect for a few quick laughs, this Web site is the one to forward to your straight-but-not-narrow friends. http://www.earstation.com/asc/spride01.html --By Eric Mueller. Send tips and URLs to emuller@advocate.com Activism 101 Although George W. Bush has promised to reform education, he's said noting about whether that reform will include the creation of safe learning environments for the nation's gay and lesbian students. The Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network--a group whose focus is just that sort of reform--has launched a revamped site that makes it easier than ever for you to get involved in its effort. Don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. your local education officials? Under the Action link, GLSEN GLSEN Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (New York, New York) provides the contact information for every school district superintendent District Superintendent may be:
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