"New York School Board Members Clash on Plan to Distribute Condoms"

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"New York School Board Members Clash on Plan to Distribute Condoms"

New York Times (12/20/90), P. B4
Berger, Joseph

Abstract: The New York City Board of Education yesterday debated the plan to distribute condoms in city high schools and a controversial AIDS education booklet that board vice president Irene Impellizzeri said would encourage students to have anal intercourse. The brochure, produced by the Hetrick-Martin Institute for Gay and Lesbian Youth, advises using lubricants before anal sex, ending the act before ejaculation, and includes the words "Do it! (Have fun)." The Hetrick-Martin Institute is one of 17 organizations the Board of Education lists as educational references for schools devising AIDS education classes. Impellizzeri did not address the condom issue directly, but quoted the booklet and advised the board to end its relationship with the institute and ACT UP, another approved resource on the list. Board member Dr. Luis O. Reyes called her resolution "at best trivial and at worst...gay bashing." No board members supported her, and the resolution failed.

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