Jennifer Egan article on how Inter offers refuge to gay teenagers; scrib onle life of closeted gay teen small Southern town; holds Inter has revolutnized experience of growg up gay, givg isolated homosexual youths accs to people like themselv wh whom they n chat, exchange msag and even engage (onle) sex; drawgs (M)
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10, 2000See the article s origal ntext om December 10, 2000, Sectn 6, Page 110Buy ReprtsTimMache is an exclive benef for home livery and digal the summer of 1999, when he was 15, a youth I will refer to by only his first name, Jefey, fally admted to himself that he was gay.
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But Jefey is a vout Southern Baptist, attendg church several tim each week, where, he says, the pastor seems to make a pot of nmng homosexualy. ''He lled a crisis le for gay teenagers, where a unselor suggted he attend a gay support group a cy an hour and a half away. It was around this time that Jefey first typed the words ''gay'' and ''teen'' to a search enge on the puter he'd gotten several months before and was staggered to fd himself aswirl a teemg onle gay world, replete wh rource centers, articl, advice lumns, personals, chat rooms, msage boards, porn s and -- most ccially -- thoands of closeted and anx kids like himself.
When we were first gettg to know each other, he ma clear that he uld allow no overlap between his onle gay life and the life he led the ''real world. From his peers at school he dread vlence, and wh good reason: acrdg to a 1996 study of the Seattle public schools, one six gay teenagers is beaten so badly durg adolcence that he requir medil attentn. ) This way, no one om his ''straight life'' n track his forays to the onle gay world g the ''lote'' feature on Ameri Onle, for example, which allows subscribers to fd onle ''buddi'' whatever public chat room or other AOL area they happen to be visg -- a potential disaster for gay teenagers.
He said he me om a rich fay, drove a BMW, had killer good looks and was 18 -- old enough to cise the adult gay chat as his onle iendships epened, the phony elements of Jefey's story began to opprs him: ''I was like, I n't be myself real life, and I e on the Inter and I still n't be myself. ''One of my really good gay iends has nothg to do wh me now, '' he told me sadly one month after ''g out'' onle as his real self. Isolatn and shame persist among gay teenagers, of urse, but now, along wh the hospable fai and towns which many fd themselv marooned, there exists a parallel onle muny -- real people like them cyberspace wh whom they n chat, exchange msag and even engage (onle) sex.
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What was most cril to the gay kids I spoke wh was the simple, revelatory disvery that they were not, gay teenagers surfg the Net n fd Web s packed wh rmatn about homosexualy and about lol gay support groups and unselg servic, along wh g-out ttimonials om young people around the world.