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After a Southern California school district rejected a state-endorsed social studi curriculum that clus material on gay rights, top state officials are vowg to buy a textbook qutn and distribute to stunts before the new school year.

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The Unsettled Place of the Gay Teen Film HistoryPrr to the recent boom movi about queer kids, their stggl played out boundary-phg die films and entertag sikick rol. Courty of NeonOn this past New Year’s Day, the mician Hayley Kiyoko christened the year to e as “20gayteen. In this month’s issue of The Atlantic, I wrote about the proliferatn of gay teens recent, wily seen movi: the h rom- Love, Simon, the buzzy nversn-therapy dramas Boy Erased and The Mistn of Cameron Post, and the Bt Picture nomee Call Me by Your Name and wner Moonlight.

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In ntent and style, the works vary wily, but they share a somewhat rerved, ut tone as they portray kids g to unrstand their homosexualy. Gay kids have long shown up mastream high-school edy, jt not as stars.

The Mistn of Cameron Post and Boy Erased leralize the way that homophobia n rip people away om the tradnal visn of teenagerdom—the backseat make outs, the backwoods keggers—and send them on drab reprogrammg missns which the kids end up policg and punishg themselv. Last year’s absorbg die drama Beach Rats, for example, portrayed a closeted Brooklyn bro who (spoiler alert) helps his iends mug a guy he meets on a hookup appeal of the lightweight Love, Simon, though, was imagg that a gay kid might fall fortably to a faiar g-of-age groove: ocsnally mortifyg, but never actually trmatic. In both s, lettg the gay hero thrive reli on an ialized—even parodic—progrsive utopia.

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