Someone sent me a copy of this article from the July 2, 1994 Boston
Globe, P. 23.  Thought folks on this list would be interested in it:



               Gay man's firing costs Boy Scouts $60,000

   NEW HAVEN [Conn.] -- A decision by the Quinnipiac Council of Boy
Scouts to fire a scout leader who is gay has cost the organization
$60,000.

   The board of directors of the United Way of Greater New Haven voted
20-4 this week to withhold the money it planned to give the scouts next
year.  Directors said the scouts did not follow the United Way's
antidiscrimination policies.

   William Colwell, president of the Quinnipiac Council, plans to appeal
the decision at the United Way's July 27 meeting.  "I hope they will
reconsider," he said.

   In December, the council ousted David Knapp, 67, a respected
volunteer scout leader from Guilford who had a 25-year affiliation with
the organization.  There were no complaints of misconduct against Knapp,
a decorated former Eagle Scout who realized he was gay at age 50.

   "I feel very sad that this has come about," Knapp said.  "I would
like to see it grow, expand and get more money, but they have indicated
they have no intention of changing the policy that is very cruel and
insidious as well as unfair, unjust and stupid."

   The united Way last year asked its affiliates to abide by its rules,
including an antidiscrimination policy.

  -=-=-=-  cut here  -=-=-=-  cut here  -=-=-=-  cut here  -=-=-=-

I also used to have a copy of a follow-up article (also from the Globe)
which reported that the New Haven U.W. had at its July 27, 1994 meeting
heard and rejected the Quinnipiac Council's appeal, but I can't seem to
find that one now...