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The mailing address and telephone number for Just Out are: POBox 15117 Portland. OR 97215 (503)236-1252 fia t out • 2 • January 1989 Despite opposition, youth outreach grows Programs aimed at gay youth are springing up across the country BY D E L L R I C H A R D S lthough homosexuality is legal in much of the country, giving emotional support and encouragement to gay adolescents still is a touchy subject. Opponents have called reaching out everything from “ recruiting” to corrupting a minor. Even so, programs aimed at gay and lesbian youth are springing up across the nation. Virginia Uribe, founder of Project 10, a gay and lesbian youth program, thinks programs that help gay and lesbian youth are essential — no matter what the opposition. 4 ‘Gay and lesbian kids are so enormously stigmatized,” said Uribe. “ And they internalize that negative feeling and for some of them, it’s just so painful, they turn to drugs, or they try to kill themselves or they engage in high-risk sexual behavior. They drop out of school and end up on the streets” One of the unwritten goals of Uribe’s Los Angeles-based, Project 10, is to keep gay and lesbian students in school. Her organization works through the school system to reduce few statistics — of any type — on gay and harassment of gay and lesbian adolescents by lesbian youth. Very few studies have been done training teachers and other educators to be and the homophobia of many researchers has sensitive to gay and lesbian issues so that they colored the findings in many cases. can provide non-judgmental counseling. “ We don’t know the statistics,” said Uribe. The San Francisco-based. Project Open “ But it does appear that students who are deal Mind, has taken another tack. It is trying to ing with issues of sexual orientation have a educate teachers and administrators to gay much higher risk of suicide. A lot of suicides issues by getting parents — and interested gay that are unexplained are really the result of people — involved with the schools, whether problems over sexual orientation but a lot of they have children or not. times, those things are hidden by the family,” Dallas-based National Gay Alliance for Uribe said. Young Adults, Inc. (NGAYA) has cast its net in Suicide isn’t the only escape for gay and a wider circle — to gay youth in all circum lesbian youth. stances. Along with a youth hot-line and pen pal “ We think that there is also a much greater project, it also is currently creating a handbook risk for substance abuse because substance for people who deal with gay and lesbian youth. abuse is a real problem in the gay and lesbian In the future, it hopes to open youth weekend community,” continued Uribe. “ But it’s hard centers plus provide funds for scholarships and to determine whether that is because of internal crisis intervention. pain — with alcohol being such a problem But despite the steps forward, gay adoles anyway.” cents still fall through the cracks. There are very A culture that is still very much based on bars A doesn’t help young kids realize that alcohol, too, can be dangerous. “ Some o f it is because of the socialization that comes about with bars. But we’re trying to provide alternatives.” Gay and Lesbian Adolescent Social Services, Inc. (GLASS) is providing alternatives for gay kids who have dropped out. The Los Angeles- based organization helps the thousands of runaways who end up on the streets of L. A. with the dream of a better life in sunny southern California shattered by the harsh realities of being broke, young, and gay. All of these organizations risk censure from people who would rather pretend gay and les bian youth don’t exist or force them to become straight — no matter what the consequences. But in its own way, each group is doing what it can to make the transition from being a con fused and scared gay kid to being a healthy adult-member of the gay community, a little less difficult. •