Word: hetrick
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...endeared the black Catholic to many white evangelical Protestants. When James Dobson, host of the syndicated conservative radio show "Focus on the Family," aired an eight-minute speech by Keyes that reached listeners across the nation, the show received a large response. According to the show's spokesperson, Paul Hetrick, the program received 10,000 letters and phone calls in response to Keyes' speech...
...clipboard- bearing stranger, even in surveys like this one where the interviews were conducted face to face in the subject's home and with a guarantee of confidentiality. "People have good reason not to be honest about their homosexual behavior," says Frances Kunreuther, the executive director of the Hetrick-Martin Institute, the nation's largest social service agency for gay youth, "especially in a country where same-sex relations are illegal in 24 states and the civil rights of gay people are protected in only eight...
...some gay students have been so badly harassed that the city supports a separate minischool for gay teens who might otherwise drop out. "Gay and lesbian issues need to be raised in the schools because of what we see in our work," says Frances Kunreuther, executive director of the Hetrick-Martin Institute, a nonprofit organization that operates the 35- student school under city auspices. "The amount of violence gay kids face, the harassment, the rejection by their families." The angry and sometimes distorted debate over the Children of the Rainbow curriculum in New York, she says, "is really a great...
...mired in fatalism and despondency. Says Thomas, a 23-year-old New Yorker: "Soon, almost everyone I know will be HIV positive." Says his friend Jordan, 20, who is not infected: "I think I am going to have a good future -- assuming I live." New York City's Hetrick-Martin Institute, a counseling agency for young gays, reports that more than half of the 136 respondents to a survey admitted having sex without condoms. According to the U.S. Surgeon General, 56% of adolescents who got tested for HIV infection did not go back to find out the results...
...estimated one-fifth are teenagers. So far, the cases are clustered in certain populations: mostly blacks and Hispanics who are gay or drug users, living in major cities. "We have a teenage client dying with AIDS right now," says Frances Kunreuther, executive director of New York City's Hetrick-Martin Institute, a service center for gay and lesbian young people. "No one told him about AIDS, condoms or homosexuality. If you deny young people information based on your morality, you are sentencing them to death. Nothing is more immoral than that...