The new school tie. (Harvey Milk School)

From: National Review | Date: July 12, 1985 | Copyright information

"WHAT DO YOU DO with a 15-year-old transvertite?" asked New York City Schools Chancellor Nathan Quinones. He obviously thought it was a rhetorical question to which the only reasonable answer was that you provide a special school for the junior drag queen. Which is just what had been done: The Harvey Milk School has been serving the alleged special educational needs of young homosexuals, with a $45,000 annual budget from the taxpayers.

quinones contended that the city wasn't condoning or promoting homosexuality: Its neutrality on this red-hot social issue was somehow ...

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