Emery Hetrick

Emery S. Hetrick (September 27, 1931 – February 4, 1987) was an American psychiatrist and one of the founders of the Hetrick-Martin Institute (HMI), originally known as the Institute for the Protection of Lesbian and Gay Youth (IPLGY), which in turn founded the Harvey Milk High School in New York City.

Biography Emery Sylvester Hetrick as born on September 27, 1931, in Columbus, Ohio. He was born to parents Emery S. Hetrick Sr. and Alice F. Hetrick. He had an older sister, Virigina Hetrick.

His partner, both personally and at the HMI, was A. Damien Martin. As a couple, they'd been together since 1975 and lived together on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. They are buried together at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, with the inscription "Death ends a life, not a relationship."

A 1953 graduate of Ohio State University, he went on to graduate in 1957 from the Cornell University Medical School.

Hetrick had been an attending psychiatrist and supervisor at the Harlem Hospital Center and associate medical director of Pfizer's Roerig Division. He started working for them in 1979 and resigned in 1986 for health reasons.

Hetrick died in of AIDS related respiratory failure at the age of 56.

The Hetrick-Martin Institute is a service and advocacy institute for LGBTQ+ youth. They provide academic support, health screenings, job trainings, showers and meals.

The institute was renamed in 1987 after Hetrick's death in his honor.