Two gay proms schled at high schools on Long Island, NY, are expected to attract about 150 gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenred and heterosexual stunts; events, among first of their kd area and anized pennt of schools, are latt strg of siar celebratns to emerge natnal growg trend that has recently spread om big ci to suburbia; unrsre prence of gay muni high schools, and highlights welter of emotns that surround gay issu for adolcents; some parents vlently oppose acmodatn for sexual inty they reject, while others sympathizze but are unsure whether imprsnable adolcents are bt served by seeg gay sexualy as suable choice; many are supportive, viewg special proms as opportuny for gay children to embrace inti way unthkable jt few years ago; photo (M)
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- WH PRI AND CORSAG, GAY PROMS REACH SUBURBS
- BRIDGET’S GAY PROM (RSAGE OPTNAL)
- CORSAG, BOUTONNIER AND NOSEGAY BOUQUETS FOR PROM
WH PRI AND CORSAG, GAY PROMS REACH SUBURBS
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''The proms are tablishg that there is a gay muny high school, '' said Kathleen C. Miller, a member of Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays, a group that helped sponsor the first gay prom St. Petersburg, Fla., last they also highlight the welter of emotns that surround gay issu for adolcents.
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Some parents vlently oppose an acmodatn for a sexual inty they reject, and others sympathize but are unsure whether imprsnable adolcents are bt served by seeg gay sexualy as a suable choice. Still other parents are supportive, viewg the special proms as an opportuny for their gay children to embrace inti a way that would have been unthkable jt a few years, Gary A. Vegliante said he was a ''vout Catholic'' and was unfortable wh the ia of gay sex.
He said he believed that gay proms should not take place, but almost the same breath, he said he uld unrstand why the two were need. ''Image growg up a homosexual male suburbia where you are supposed to be scratchg, burpg and chasg girls.
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''Fifty people have already paid $30 per person to attend the Sayville dance, set for June 8 and sponsored by Long Island Gay and Lbian Youth. The ratns will clu a repli of the Stonewall Inn, the Greenwich Village bar where a 1969 clash between gays and the police is nsired the begng of the gay rights movement. ''Bis those gog to the Sayville prom, more than 150 teenagers and young adults are expected at a prom June 22 at the Thatched Cottage Centerport, sponsored by Pri for Youth of proms are a reflectn both of the growth gay inty and the rponse to , at a time when gay issu are pervadg the culture a way that did not the L.
Ferrero, of the Lbian and Gay Rights Project of the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn, said the suburbs were ''a real battleground on the issue of protectg gay stunts. '' Most plats om stunts and parents about schools seekg to bar same-sex upl om proms emanate om the suburbs, he, stunts said proms were only a microsm of schools where gays are spised outsirs. Frank H., 16, a sophomore at Walt Whman High School Huntgton whose gay orientatn sham his grandmother, said he has been sp on, phed down stairs and lled M.