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Please join us for the second annual GASP Coffee Hour on Saturday, January 31st, 1:15 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. This informal event is open to all and has been sponsored by the SPSP Training Committee. Please consult the official conference program for location.

We are delighted to announce that the GASP Measures Project has been funded through an APA Interdivisional Grant of $2,000. GASP will be working with members of Divisions 8 (SPSP), 9 (SPSSI), and 44 (you should know this) to develop an annotated database of measures useful in LGBT research and to develop additional features for the GASP
website.

The project, officially titled, "Creating Shared Research and Professional Resources for LGBT Research and Researchers through GASP, the GLBT Alliance for Social and Personality Psychology," will be spearheaded by Lisa Diamond, and more announcements will follow.

Thanks to Allen Omoto for co-P.I.'ing with us (Lisa Aspinwall and Lisa Diamond), and to the 3 divisions for officially sponsoring GASP's efforts. As always, send suggestions for the GASP website to us at gaspmail@earthlink.net.

SPSP adds LGBT students to Diversity Travel Awards

February 9, 2003 -- The SPSP Executive Committee voted unanimously
(that's 6-0, and includes the past, present, and incoming presidents
of the organization) to add LGBT students to the diversity criteria
for the Diversity Travel Award program.

With this vote, LGBT students are now fully, publicly, and explicitly
included in all SPSP Diversity Programs, which has been a major goal
of GASP and both the Diversity and Training Committees of SPSP. The
diversity programs website <http://www.spsp.org/divprog.htm> has been
updated to reflect this welcome change.

Thank you, Ann Bettencourt, Chair of the SPSP Diversity Committee,
for raising this issue again this year.

And, as Lisa Diamond might say, inclusion rocks!

Celebrate Inclusion!

Hello, GASP folks and friends:

The Diversity Travel Awards Program is funded jointly by SPSP and by
contributions from publishers and individuals.

Please join GASP in celebrating the full inclusion of LGBT students
in all SPSP diversity programs by sending a check to SPSP at the
address below and including a note that it is a contribution to the
diversity fund. (Yes, it's tax-deductible, and even a penny will
help.) These funds are used exclusively for the travel award program.

Let's show the organization that fair-minded folks support diversity
in all its forms -- wouldn't it be great if the vote to include LGBT
students was followed by an avalanche of checks, large and small,
from all over the world?

SPSP's mailing address is
Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.
Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627

Please direct specific questions re donations to Harry Reis at
spsp@scp.rochester.edu.

SPSP Events Well Attended; Friends of GASP Honored

GASP hosted 3 events at the Feb. 2003 meeting of SPSP in University
City, CA. The first, a graduate student coffee hour brought many new
faces, which we were delighted to see. Thanks again to Jamie Franco
and Amy Lawrence for hosting and for putting together information on
local hotspots. GASP graduate students, what do you want to plan for
next year?

The GASP organizational meeting was also well attended. GASP
informally honored Anne Peplau and Greg Herek for their sustained
contributions to LGBT research, and Scott Plous, Janet Swim, and Ann
Bettencourt for their years of work within SPSP to create and sustain
a climate of inclusion that made an organization such as GASP even
thinkable.

And, of course, where there are LGBT folks and their heterosexual
allies, there must be a party... the GASP after-party in the lovely
Hollywood home of the Diamond family was well-attended and sets the
stage for our events next year when SPSP meets in Austin. People
from Texas, what should the next GASP party be?

Mark your calendars -- GASP's official meeting at SPSP (Society for Personality and Social Psychology) will be on Friday, Feb. 7, 2003, at 6:30, in one of the conference hotels. SPSP is meeting in Universal City, CA; http://www.spsp.org/confer.htm. The exact location of the GASP meeting will be found in the official conference program and on this website.

GASP plans to repeat its successful "GASP badge" effort, so look for our materials at or near the registration table.

Graduate Student Coffee Hour at SPSP

GASP is pleased to announce the first annual GASP Graduate Student Coffee Hour, an informal social event open to all conference attendees and hosted by Jamie Franco and Amy Lawrence, UC Santa Cruz. People will have a chance to meet, share research ideas, and make plans to enjoy the LA area while they are in town.  For more info, please contact Jamie Franco, a West Hollywood native, at jfranco@cats.ucsc.edu

The social hour will take place on Friday 2/7, 2-2:45pm, in
the Sheraton Pool Area and is funded by the SPSP Training Committee.

 

Watch the official SPSP conference program for the date and time of the following symposium, "Sexual Prejudice and Heterosexism: Critical Considerations on Perpetrators and Targets." Click here for more details.

If you are presenting LGBT-related research at SPSP, please let us know at gaspmail@earthlink.net, and we'll post information at this site and on our listserv. If you are a GASP member presenting on other topics at SPSP and wish to have your talk or poster listed, that's fine, too. Visibility benefits all of us.

SPSP OK's affiliation with GASP.

Lend your support to social psychologist victim of hate crime

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