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Bay Area Network of Gay and Lesbian Educators records
1994-18
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Title: Bay Area Network of Gay and Lesbian Educators records
Dates: 1985-1995
Collection Number: 1994-18
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 6 linear feet (four cartons, one manuscript box)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: The Bay Area Network of Gay and Lesbian Educators was an organization created to support queer educators, queer youth, and
their families in Bay Area schools. The collection consists of correspondence, minutes from meetings (primarily regional steering
committee meetings), financial records, and news clippings.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item]. Bay Area Network of Gay and Lesbian Educators records. Collection Number: 1994-18. GLBT Historical
Society
Gift of Larry E. Alegre (Chair of BANGLE) on August 30, 1994. Gift of Barbara Blinick on July 17, 1998. Gift of Bob Latham,
on behalf of BANGLE, on April 23, 2002.
Biography/Administrative History
The Bay Area Network of Gay and Lesbian Educators was an organization created to support queer educators, queer youth, and
their families in Bay Area schools. It was co-founded in 1994 by Rob Birle, a student teacher in Antioch, CA. The goals of
the group included general social support as well as political advocacy. Initially, the group met only in San Francisco, but
by the mid- to late 1980s, chapters convened in the South Bay, Contra Costa County, and the East Bay, as well as for a brief
time in Sonoma. To facilitate coordination and communications between chapters, a regional steering committee was created
in 1987, with representatives from each chapter. A newsletter was published, beginning in the mid-1980s, which initially included
news from San Francisco, and expanded to include regional news as the chapters grew. Eventually, each chapter took on the
work of producing its own newsletter.
Over the years, the individual chapters took on a variety of projects, including scholarships; essay contests; the Adopt-A-Book
Project, in which books were bought and donated to schools in San Francisco and Contra Costa; the Anti-Slur Campaign, to try
and encourage schools to enforce their rules against the use of homophobic slurs at school; development of support services
for queer youth; and activities related to Pride parades. BANGLE was absorbed into the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education
Network (GLSEN) in 1997.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection consists of correspondence, minutes from meetings (primarily regional steering committee meetings), financial
records, and news clippings. It also includes documents about various BANGLE projects, including youth advocacy, a lesbian
and gay parenting forum, Project Empowerment (a weekend workshop designed to empower queer educators) and the San Francisco
BANGLE scholarship (for 1994 only). Finally, materials from the Gay and Lesbian United Educators of the United Educators of
San Francisco (the local teachers’ union) are also included, a group with strong ties to BANGLE and strongly overlapping membership.
GSSO Linked Terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C16529; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_001456; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_003411
Education
Youth
Labor