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Gay Teens Ignored by High School Sex Ed Classes

of violence, harassment or other learning obstacles. The dropout rate is minimal and the school currently has a three-year waiting list. "It"s a high school where sexual orientation is taken off the table," says Carl Strange, a spokesman for the Hetrick Martin Institute. "There"s no excuse not to excel." A similarly accepting atmosphere exists at Friends Central School, a private, K-12 grade Quaker school in Newton Square, Penn. Lindsey Stetson, 18, an only child adopted from Hong Kong, attends classes like "Sexuality and Society" and "Gay and Lesbian Representation in Literature" along with sexuality education classes that discuss all sexualities. She has also had an open dialogue about her sexuality with her parents. Stetson is acutely aware that her experience is not commonplace, so she is anxious about going away to college. "I live in a school, social setting, family and church of very accepting people," Stetson says. "I feel like I haven"t experienced the real world of being gay." Carol Lee is a student at New York University Department of Journalism and Mass Communication. For more information: SIECUS, The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United Stateshttp://www.siecus.org/index.html Choosing the Best Abstinence Education: http://www.choosingthebest.org/index.htm Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund "Lambda and GLSEN Team Up to Create a New Publication for LGBT Youth," January 15, 2002: http://www.lambdalegal.org/cgi-bin/iowa/documents/record?record=957 [----------]

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