{"id":301,"date":"2003-07-29T06:29:25","date_gmt":"2003-07-29T14:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/07\/29\/new-york-creates-gay-public-high-school\/"},"modified":"2003-07-29T06:29:25","modified_gmt":"2003-07-29T14:29:25","slug":"new-york-creates-gay-public-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"New York creates Gay Public High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/EDUCATION\/07\/28\/gay.school.ap\/index.html\">CNN <\/a>&#8211;<\/p>\n<div class=\"snip\">NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; New York City is creating the nation&#8217;s first public high school for gays, bisexuals and transgender students.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s first openly gay city supervisor, who was assassinated in 1978.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think everybody feels that it&#8217;s a good idea because some of the kids who are gays and lesbians have been constantly harassed and beaten in other schools,&#8221; Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday. &#8220;It lets them get an education without having to worry.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Story found via <a href=\"http:\/\/baude.blogspot.com\/\">Crescat Sententia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.50minutehour.net\/archive\/2003_07_01_index.htm#105949106323763907\">The Fifty Minute Hour <\/a>is discussing this.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 2: Peter Northup of <a href=\"http:\/\/baude.blogspot.com\/2003_07_01_baude_archive.html#105950694569898355\">Crescat Sententia <\/a>has posted an excellent defense of the idea of HMHS. (Link may not work in Opera).<a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=order-liquid-cialis-oral-jelly\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CNN &#8211; NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; New York City is creating the nation&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=301\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-and-admin-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}