For those of you who work on the schools issue, PFOX has found that flyer distribution is the only way to get into the public schools to counter their one-sided messages about homosexuality.  You may want to try this.  We can provide you with follow-up student resources.  Flyer distribution results in interviews with the student newspaper, lots of student inquiries, sharing of resources that student would not otherwise know about, etc. 

Calling all non-profit organizations to distribute ex-gay flyers to local high schools!!

 Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays (PFOX) distributes flyers to students at area public high schools and so should you! You deliver your flyers to the local high schools and the school administration distributes the flyers to each student. Flyers announcing your organization and the ex-gay resources you can refer them to are the best way to get your message into public schools and the hands of each student.  Since most students are taught only one-sided messages about homosexuality, your flyers may be the only accurate information students receive.

 PFOX has a sample of its school flyer at http://pfox.org/school_resources_handout.pdf   

 1)    Choose those high schools where you want your flyers to be distributed.  Printing flyers costs money, so choose only those schools that need your services – schools with GSA or other gay clubs that celebrate Day of Silence or other gay events, etc.  These are the schools that need to hear about the ex-gay message.  Check each school’s website under Student Clubs or Student Organizations to see if they have a GSA (Gay Straight Alliance), Tolerance, Diversity, or other such club.  In addition, also check your state at http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/student/student/index.html to see if the high school has a GSA club. 

 2)    Check the websites of the school board, local school district, and Superintendent to find out what your school district’s policy is on flyer distribution by outside community groups like yours.  Sometimes the flyer distribution is called a “backpack flyer program.”  See http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/info/flyers for one example.  If you don’t know the website addresses, type in the name of your school district on www.google.com to find them.  The school district’s website will also have the names of the high schools in your district.

 3)    If the policy is not posted on the website, email the school district and ask them to send you their policy on distribution of flyers by non-profit community organizations. 

 4)    If they don’t have a policy and the schools have allowed other organizations to distribute flyers, they should also allow yours.

5)    Contact PFOX at pfox@pfox.org with your questions.

6)      News Article –

PFOX Official: Homosexual Activists Want to Censor Ex-'Gay' Message
'Tolerance Police' Blasted for Opposing Ex-Homosexual Group's Flyer
Handout at MD High School
By Jim Brown (American Family Radio News)

(AgapePress) - An informational flyer distributed by an ex-"gay"
group at a Maryland high school has administrators, faculty, and
students who support homosexuality seething. Parents and Friends of
Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX) recently passed out the flyer to 3,000
students at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring.

The handout distributed by the ex-homosexual group states its
belief "in unconditional love for family members with same-sex
attractions" and its goal of seeking "to eliminate prejudice and
discrimination against former homosexuals." PFOX executive director
Regina Griggs says those who are raising angry objections to the
flyer distribution are demonstrating intolerance. Also, she feels
they are obstructing a legitimate effort to provide young people with
certain facts about homosexuality.

"Children need to be able to have a free place where they can go and
get information and not have someone promote an agenda and not
provide them with accurate information," Griggs asserts. "We want
kids to know that change is possible," she says.

However, the PFOX spokeswoman points out, "We didn't even put that in
the flyer." The basic message that homosexual activists seem so eager
to suppress was not even mentioned in this particular handout, she
notes, adding that the handout "was very basic: here are some
services we provide, please contact us, here's our website -- that's
it."

Ironically, Griggs observes, self-proclaimed proponents of tolerance
want PFOX's flyer censored and facts about the medical and
psychological effects of homosexual behavior suppressed, along with
the very idea that sexual orientation is not immutable. These
homosexual activists "do not want people to know that change is
possible," she says, and "they certainly do not want you to provide
an alternative."

These pro-homosexual tolerance and diversity advocates generally "see
ex-gays as nonexistent," the PFOX official contends. And when former
homosexuals are introduced to society, she says, many homosexual
activists become afraid that this "confuses the public and may
actually be a deterrent to gay marriage and other civil rights that
they believe they deserve."

Nevertheless, Griggs says PFOX will not let opposition or hostility
from homosexual opponents deter the group's efforts to tell the
public the truth about homosexuality or to let those struggling with
unwanted homosexuality know that change is possible. The flyer
distribution at Montgomery Blair High School, she suggests, was
simply intended to let students know that information and help are
available.

Last year, PFOX won a lawsuit challenging Montgomery County's sexual
education curriculum. In that case, a federal judge ordered the
school system to toss out the biased, pro-homosexuality curriculum
that made derogatory comments about Christian views on homosexual
behavior.

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