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• GAY AND BISEXUAL ADOLCENT BOYS' PERSPECTIV ON PARENT-ADOLCENT RELATNSHIPS AND PARENTG PRACTIC RELATED TO TEEN SEX AND DATG
• APPLE APPROV 'ONLY GAY SOCIAL APP FOR AG 12 AND UP'

GAY AND BISEXUAL ADOLCENT BOYS' PERSPECTIV ON PARENT-ADOLCENT RELATNSHIPS AND PARENTG PRACTIC RELATED TO TEEN SEX AND DATG

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” In a 2007 survey of 626 gay, bisexual and transgenr middle-schoolers om across the untry by the Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutn Network (Glsen), 81 percent reported beg regularly harassed on mp bee of their sexual orientatn. “We always knew middle school was a time when kids stggle wh their inty, ” she told me, “but was easy to let anti-gay language sli bee ’s so imbedd middle-school culture and bee we didn’t have stunts who were out to or their classmat. Other schools are lettg stunts be part of the natnal Day of Silence each April (participants take a vow of silence for a day to symbolize the silencg effect of anti-gay harassment), which last year was held memory of Lawrence Kg, a 15-year-old gay junr-high stunt Oxnard, Calif., who was shot and killed at school by a 14-year-old classmate.

’s and the Day of Silence have been ntroversial plac, as some parents and faculty members object to what they see as the promotn of homosexualy public schools and the “premature sexualizatn of the stunts, ” as a lawyer for a school central Florida that was fightg the creatn of a G. But there is a growg nsens among parents and middle-school tors that somethg needs to be done to curb anti-gay bullyg, which a 2008 study at an all-male school by rearchers at the Universy of Nebraska and Harvard Medil School found to be the most psychologilly harmful type of bullyg.

”The challengg school experience of so many gay and lbian stunts — and the suicis last sprg of a sixth grar Massachetts and a fifth grar Geia, both of whom were relentlsly bullied at school for appearg gay — rerc the longtime narrative of gay youth crisis. Studi the ’80s and ’90s found gay teenagers to be at a signifintly higher risk for prsn, substance abe and suici than their heterosexual I went to work 1998 for XY, a natnal magaze for young gay men, we received dozens of letters each week om teenagers the pths of spair.