Sad and serves as a reminder to funnel our donations to lgbt organizations.

Yes Sebbe, donate and dontate to those organizations that serve the most underserved in our communities.

Here in NJ, the annual gala for the organization that has led the fight for marriage equality (Garden State Equality) is coming up with "over 800 tickets sold, twice as many as last year" according to their emails. BTW is 200 bucks a ticket.

But other trying to get the community to donate to LGBT organzations that provide services or actual programming is like trying to get blood from a stone.

Maybe when marriage equality comes to NJ we can get people to dontate that 200 bucks to a deserving LGBT service organization (but I doubt it).

When are you going to update the site letting the public know that all of your employees swindled your money and now the agency is closing. No longer to provide for juveniles who cant prove for themselves, you've failed! All of the kids did not get the gift cards, vouchers, shoes and all the free stuff that were given because the employees took it for themselves. Many of your employees got paid for hours that they did not work. Now I guess you're going to have a pity party. Such a shame and waste of time and MONEY. You complained about your Amex card to LA Times. I worked with the Agency and not once did I hear anything about you using your card to shelter homeless kids in hotel/motel for a night or two. Yet, you rolled around in your Lexus and continued to ask for a hand out. All of those company cars, van shopping sprees. I know of few houses that have usable products, name brand clothes and furniture that hid in the garages only made available to the group home staff that took the items. I think instead of focusing the attention on the group homes and the children's welfare the focus was geared to, "Who's sleeping with who" and "I wonder If he's gay, I wonder if she's gay."

I worked for GLASS for many years, rising from a child care worker to house manager and finally to program director. And I can tell you that the loss of this agency is a travesty. Terry developed and ran this program better than any other residential agency out there, as is evidenced by the 25 years GLASS persevered (against sometimes insurmountable odds) and the thousands of GLBT youth GLASS serviced. Terry used to always tell us, "We have to run a better program than everyone else, because we have more scrutiny than anyone else." Our clinical programs were top-notch, our facilities were clean and well-maintained, and we gave those kids (who could be very difficult to work with, and sometimes were supremely ungrateful) a real home. GLASS and Terry DeCrescenzo changed thousands of GLBT lives for the better – my own included. DYLAN, if you knew about stealing then it was YOUR DUTY to report it. Shame on you for trying to drag Terry, her fine employees, and the children in her care through your own disgruntled mud.

I really do know how pointless it is to get into trying to deny "shadow accusations" from a presumably disgruntled former employee. My focus is on the kids, as everyone else's ought to be, not on what kind of car I drive (which I pay for, not GLASS). As for the AMEX bill, anyone who wants to see the $30,000 per month in motel bills is welcome to copies. No one will see a lunch or a dinner or any other personal or business expense for me on the AMEX card. We have eleven vans used to transport the kids, all required by licensing regulations, so what's the problem? The group home garages are used to store donated furniture, and if "staff took it", you should have reported them, but even if that's true, how does a garage full of pilfered furniture explain away a million dollar deficit last year? PLEASE. What matters is that a VITAL resource for LGBTQ kids has been lost. That is all that matters. not some silly preoccupation with the sexual politics of employee flirtations that Dylan, or whatever your real name is, seems so interested in.

It saddens me to see GLASS go. I am a former employee myself and had my ups and downs with the agency. However, I must say that Terry D has much love and compassion for the children housed within GLASS. I do know personally the those residents were her FIRST priority. I can honestly say that I am proud that I had the opportunity to be employed with GLASS.

Thank you Donny for the kind words. Yes, we've had our ups and downs within GLASS, but I'm pleased to see that you (and so many others who have worked there over the past twenty-five years) are clear about what was my – and most of the employees' – FIRST priority. That's where my sorrow lies. Will they be okay? And thank you for the role you played in insuring their well-being.