Boston Globe, July 29, 1994, page 29:

United Way says it won't help Scouts
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   NEW HAVEN -- The local United Way has upheld its decision to
stop funding the Boy Scouts because its policy of banning
homosexuals is discriminatory.

   The chapter decided in June to stop funding the Hamden-based
Quinnipiac Council of the Boy Scouts on Jan. 1.  The council
ejected volunteer Scout leader David W. Knapp last winter for
being gay.

   The Greater New Haven United Way's board of directors voted
this week to deny the Scouts' appeal, saying its policy was not
in compliance with the United Way's antidiscrimination policy.

   The council, composed of 250 Cub packs, Scout troops and
Explorer posts in the area, got $60,000 annually from the United
Way.

   Knapp, 67, is an Eagle Scout who was a professional Scout
administrator for nine years before leaving for a career selling
textbooks.  He returned to the Scouts a few years ago as a
volunteer at the request of Scout officials.