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- From: elf@halcyon.com (Elf Sternberg)
- Subject: Re: Education Regarding Alternative Family Units (Re: The Analogy Betwixt Gays & Blacks (Re: Children in Same-gender Families))
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.234029.25600@nwnexus.WA.COM>
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- References: <1992Dec29.203241.9951@galileo.physics.arizona.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 23:40:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.203241.9951@galileo.physics.arizona.edu>
- krueger@galileo.physics.arizona.edu (Ted Krueger) writes:
-
- >How about teaching beastiality as an equal sexuality. And are you equally
- >tired of the suicides of any teens, or just gays? If we are going to
- >require counseling, why have it in the schools? Are we doing such a great
- >job teaching the 3R's that we have left over time and resources? BTW,
- >how many gay teens committed suicide last year?
-
-
- Lesbian and Gay Youth
- A Population at Risk
-
- -In a 1988 survey of 500 adolescents who applied for services at
- The Hetrick-Martin Institute (A Lesbian & Gay Youth Social
- Service Agency in New York City), 46% had suffered violence
- from family, friends and/or strangers. Of those who experienced
- violence, 44% reported suicidal ideation (seriously
- contemplating suicide) and 41% of the females and 34% of the
- males had actually made suicide attempts. (Joyce Hunter, 1989)
-
- -The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
- Task Force on Youth Suicide issued a report in January of 1989
- concluding that lesbian and gay youthconstitute "up to
- thirty percent of completed suicides annually" and that
- "homosexuals of both sexes are two to six times more likely to
- attempt suicide then are heterosexuals." (DHHS, Report of the
- Secretary's Task Force on Youth Suicide, ed. Marcia R. Feinlieb,
- 1989
-
- -A 1988-1991 survey of predominately African American and
- Latino Gay and Bisexual Male Youth at The Hetrick-Martin
- Institute found that 38.6% had attempted suicide. This report
- also reported a high rate of attempted and completed suicide
- among the gay/bisexual youth's friends (35% and 16%,
- respectively) and family (17% and 12% respectively)
- (Rotheram-Borus, Hunter, & Rosario, 1992)
-
- -An uncompleted national study of youth attending Lesbian and
- Gay Youth Support Groups has already found that in 2 non-
- Boston based Lesbian and Gay Youth Groups in The
- Commonwealth 41% of the youth had attempted suicide and an
- additional 36% reported seriously considering it.
- (Proctor, incomplete 1992)
-
- %The studies listed above show the disproportionate suicide and
- suicidal ideation risks faced by lesbian, gay and bisexual youth.
- Other studies indicate that lesbian, gay & bisexual youth are at
- disproportionate risk for substance abuse, forced homelessness
- (throwaways/runaways), violence, harassment and HIV
- Infection.
-
- Jerry Cheney,
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts'
- Governor's Commission on Gay & Lesbian Youth
- C/O Health Awareness Services, 71 Elm Street, Worcester, MA 01609
-
- (508) 755-0005 Home: Voice/FAX, (508) 756-7123 Work -Voice,
- (508) 756-8922 Work-FAX
- or
- Jerry Cheney C/O GANDERSON@vax.clarku.edu Exit
-
- Start THERE.
-
- Elf !!!
- --
- elf@halcyon.com (Elf Sternberg)
-
- Then, I was inspired. God, thy will is hard
- Now, I'm sad and tired. But you hold every card.
- Listen, surely I've exceeded I will drink your cup of poison.
- Expectations. Nail me to your cross and break me.
- Tried for three years, Bleed me, beat me.
- Seems like thirty. Kill me.
- Could you ask as much Take me now.
- From any other man? Before I change my mind.
-