European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 8, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Elizabeth Russo of the Institute Tor the Protection of Gay and lesbian youth talking with teen agers near the port authority but terminal in now York City. Gay teen agers a population in turmoil by Jane Gross new York timezone by one. The students Al Harvey milk High school in Manhattan dropped Flowers in a wide mouthed vase and said a prayer or the boy nicknamed Chelsea one of the growing number of new York teen agers who have died of aids. Just three months alter Chelsea s graduation at a memorial service that was an occasion Tor Bolf grief and education his classmates reacted alternately with rage denial and reasoned concern it s not a subject you should ignore but sometimes you gel life of in and say come on1 we re being aided to Dealfi " sad Finnegan an if year old Tudoni Al the school which is a Haven for 26 Gay adolescents exports trying 1o contain Tho threat of aids among Gay teen agers say they Are grappling with a population in turmoil bearing All the problems common to adolescence and another sol All i hair own there Gay Taen Hen run the Gamul from inconspicuous youngsters in High school who Are isolated and ngh Mcnod by i hair stirring sexuality to runaways on the piers of now York s Greenwich Village who openly sell themselves As Prosl Lules they share the Crise of immortality and impulsiveness hat characterizes adolescence but Are More Likely than their Mclero sexual Peers to be seriously troubled. Hiding i hair meals lion of lec Lings and pushed by loneliness into furtive dangerous sexual encounters Gay icon acis even those who appear Well 3dustcd. Say they Lee lonely and scorned they arc left out of Hijii school social lilt and have Lew sources of information about sex. Except pornographic magazines hat they read on the sly Many of Ihm Are nol yet sexually alive. Bul others wind up in physical relationships they Are not pit pared Lor Page 18 the stars and stripes Al 17,1 slaved doing what other kids did at 13." said sell. A 19-year-old Columbia University Sophomore. I did t know How to flirt i did t know How to indicate no thanks.1 or go Stow so i dated More men Han 1 should have sex becomes a Means a make social  said a. Damien Martin lha executive director of the Institute for the pre Lection of Gay and lesbian youth a social service Agency that offers programs for homosexual youngsters and also fun the Harvey milk school for the Board of education we have to give them an environment where there Are other reasonable options " under the worst circumstances abused and rejected by their families and classmates Gay Leen agers become runaways. Some advocates for children say almost half the 10.000 homeless Toen agora on Tho streets of now York arc homosexual Many of them working As pros Latules on he piers and m to darkest recesses o times Square social workers say the men who buy their favors and sometimes carry infection homa to their wives Are seeking progressively younger partners in i he Hope they will he clean " John it one of those homeless icon Urcis to says he is 1b. Bul looks younger and ran away from a group Loster Home Aller his Lalani homosexuality made him a Pauahi John lives in inc port authority bus terminal sleeping