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TEENS AT NEW YORK SCHOOL ALL-GAY HIGH SCHOOL ARRTED FOR ROBBERY AND PROSTUTN
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When Daniel Hurewz thks back to his experience of g out as gay as a Harvard Universy stunt the 1980s, he mostly remembers the multu of novels he read about gay life, while hidg the basement of the school library. “When I was llege, if a teacher had talked about someone beg gay the past would have been dramatic bee nobody was talkg about gay people at all, ” said Hurewz. The Mm of the Cy of New York’s Activist New York exhibn, currently on view, has sectns on Trans Activism and Gay Rights.
This acceptance ns sharp ntrast to three s ago, when a group of New York Cy teachers and admistrators created “Children of the Rabow, ” a 300-pl page curriculum that clud a remendatn that teachers clu referenc to gay and lbian people. An iologil battle ensued, wh one school board member llg the curriculum “dangeroly misleadg lbian/homosexual propaganda.
Compared to stunts schools whout such a curriculum, those schools wh the clive curriculum were signifintly ls likely to hear homophobic remarks or miss school and more likely to perform better amilly acrdg to 2019 rearch.
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Gay people have been walkg around New York Cy for s’ was so powerful, ” said Hurewz.
The NYC LGBT Historic S Project piled a list of the 25 public schools named after gay men, lbians, and bisexuals, although only one — Harvey Milk High School — tentnally honors an LGBT dividual. Born Woodmere, New York, Harvey Milk (1930-1978) was one of the first openly gay elected officials the Uned Stat.
Workg on Wall Street as a then-polil nservative, he met the young future gay rights activist Craig Rodwell 1962, while cisg on Central Park Wt.