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Fred Goldhaber, 63, Dies-founder and first teacher of the Harvey Milk School in NYC

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Fred Goldhaber, 63, Dies; Taught at School for Gays By DENNIS HEVESI- NY Times Novemb er 15, 2010 Among Mr. G.?s first students back in 1985 were runaways who had been sleeping in a shed down by the docks in Lower Manhattan where the city stored mountains of road salt. One boy had hitchhiked from Ohio after eight teenagers dragged him into a bathroom at school, bashed his head against a toilet and burned his arm with a cigarette lighter. Another boy, from New York City, had been abused by his parents after a teacher told them he was ?acting like a faggot.? He was kept at home for a year ? chained to a radiator, beaten and taken by his father to 42nd Street and forced to have sex with men for money. His father went to prison. There is no way to know how many of the gay and lesbian youngsters who came under the wing of Mr...continue to full post

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