Read an April 1, 2006, San Francisco Chronicle story about legislation around the nation involving sexual orientation in public schools.

Bitterlemons is an online roundtable, a publication on the Middle East put out by Palestinian sociologist Ghassan Khatib and Yossi Alpher, a consultant on Israeli-related strategic issues.

Dennis J. Banks, an Ojibwe, is chairman and co-founder of the American Indian Movement. The AIM site lists its speakers from around the country.

Read a Dec. 2, 2006, New York Times article about parents and schools facing issues with children who do not conform to gender norms.

Michael O. Emerson is a professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has written several books on race and religion, including People of the Dream: Multiracial Congregations in the United States and Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America.

Suzan Shown Harjo, who is Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee, is president of the Morning Star Institute, a national Indian rights organization. She helps Native Americans regain the land that was taken from them, and preserved many sacred places.

Glenn T. Morris, who is Shawnee, is associate professor of political science at the University of Colorado, Denver, where he is executive director of the Fourth World Center for the Study of Indigenous Law and Politics. He is also a member of the Leadership Council of the American Indian Movement of Colorado, which annually protests the Columbus […]

Tex Hall was president of the National Congress of American Indians twice, founded in 1944. Hall is chairman of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation in North Dakota and lives in New Town, N.D.

Daniel Sumner directs the University of California Agricultural Issues Center in Davis, Calif.