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...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...
...fully accredited public high school, Harvey Milk was the subject of a short-lived controversy when it began classes four years ago. It was founded by the Hetrick-Martin Institute for Lesbian and Gay Youth, a ten-year-old organization established following the brutal gang rape of a gay teenager in a New York City bar. The school is named after Harvey Milk, the gay San Francisco supervisor who was murdered with Mayor George Moscone by a disgruntled former city official...
Pamela Ambrose and Carol Hetrick (cello, violin) -- Hetrick is playing to earn money so she can attend the Harvard Graduate School of Education in the fall. But like many Harvardians, she's having her doubts. Despite comments from her colleagues at the Longy School of Music, she continues to play along Brattle St. and in the Harvard Square and Government Center T stops...