PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Rofes, Eric
TI  - Opening Up the Classroom Closet: Responding to the Educational Needs of Gay and Lesbian Youth
AID  - 10.17763/haer.59.4.31183h6345747510
DP  - 1989 Dec 01
TA  - Harvard Educational Review
PG  - 444--454
VI  - 59
IP  - 4
4099  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/59/4/444.short
4100  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/59/4/444.full
SO  - herp1989 Dec 01; 59
AB  - Eric Rofes, gay community activist and author, explores the issues surrounding the schools'failure to meet the educational needs of gay and lesbian youth. He argues that there has been an across-the-board denial of the existence of gay and lesbian youth, and that this has taken place because "their voices have been silenced and because adults have not effectively taken up their cause." Rofes goes on to present some promising initiatives that are designed to change the status quo: Project 10 in Los Angeles and the Harvey Milk School in New York City. He concludes by proposing needed changes in U. S. schools if they are to become truly accessible to gay and lesbian youth.