I wonder what their football team will be called?

[Lance]

I'm guessing they'll be the fighting banannas.

NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City is creating the nation's first public high school for gays, bisexuals and transgender students.

The Harvey Milk High School will enroll about 100 students and open in a newly renovated building in the fall. It is named after San Francisco's first openly gay city supervisor, who was assassinated in 1978.

"I think everybody feels that it's a good idea because some of the kids who are gays and lesbians have been constantly harassed and beaten in other schools," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday. "It lets them get an education without having to worry."

The school is an expansion of a two-classroom public school program that began in 1984. A gay-rights youth advocacy group, the Hetrick-Martin Institute, has managed and financed the program since its inception.

The new school's principal, William Salzman, said the school will be academically challenging and will follow mandatory English and math programs. It also will specialize in computer technology, arts and culinary arts.

State Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long criticized the creation of the school.

"Is there a different way to teach homosexuals? Is there gay math? This is wrong," Long said. "There's no reason these children should be treated separately."

The Hetrick-Martin Institute's Web site says the school will give its students "an opportunity to obtain a secondary education in a safe and supportive environment. ... We believe that success requires the ability to respect and value the diverse human community."

[funkedup]

Don't the gay rights people assert that sexual orientation is equivalent to race?  In that case wouldn't this be segregation and therefore illegal?

[Animal]

They are segregating themselves.

I heard they are hiring Mathman as their PE "instructor"


OF LUST!!!!

[funkedup]

I'm guessing "The Rainbow Warriors"
The mascot would have to be Waylon Smithers.

[funkedup]

Originally posted by Animal
They are segregating themselves.

Just as nice white folks tried to do back in the day.

[Mini D]

"Longhorns"

[SOB]

Funked, you're bigotry is showing again.  Gay people need love too...give it to 'em.


SOB

[Dnil]

fudgepackers

[sling322]

Originally posted by Dnil
fudgepackers

Never work...that team in Green Bay already has that one.

[gofaster]

Will they have unisexual bathrooms?

[GRUNHERZ]

Nothing wrong here!  Seperate but equal....

Maybe it's just me but I find all this new fangled identity self segregation to be ****ing ironic, first the all black dorms, then the seperate "ethnic" graduations and now this crap...

[Eagler]

its a scam for tax dollars to support a studmuffin school - private dollars to get it off the ground but once deemed "public" taxes will pay for the little turd burglars books.

seems like something a private school should tackle, but then what would the poor queers do??

"A gay-rights youth advocacy group" - anyone else think this sounds perverted?

will they only hire studmuffin teachers? who else would feel comfortable in such an enviroment but another homo?

moral decay - wtg

[Skuzzy]

So much negativity, so little time.