Gay kids are g out earlier — sometim middle school — and many are fdg acceptance. But some parents and teachers wonr if the kids are too young to really know their sexual orientatn.
Contents:
- A GAY TEEN DISVERS HIMSELF AT SUMMER MP THIS FLAMER FIRST LOOK
- FIVE YEARS OLD AND GAY RURAL, WTERN KANSAS
- MY 14 YEAR OLD GAY SON IS SEEING A 17 YEAR OLD
- GAYS JAILED AFTER RENT BOY SNDAL
- GAY KIDS COMG OUT YOUNGER, BUT PARENTS ASK "HOW DO YOU KNOW?"
- TO BE YOUNG & GAY
- JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
A GAY TEEN DISVERS HIMSELF AT SUMMER MP THIS FLAMER FIRST LOOK
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FIVE YEARS OLD AND GAY RURAL, WTERN KANSAS
A gay man fondly rells his first homosexual experience ral, wtern Kansas at five years old which end wh unhappy effects. * 15yo gay boy *
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I knew I was gay at age five. That is, I had feelgs, sir, pulsns, and attractns that I still had at 11 and would then regnize as homosexualy. My sneakg spicn that the feelgs were very wrong beme realy when my grandmother found out urse, at five, I had no ncept of beg gay.
MY 14 YEAR OLD GAY SON IS SEEING A 17 YEAR OLD
Hi my only jt 14 year old son has recently told me he is gay, we have long expected this may be the se. My problem * 15yo gay boy *
Ined, 1953, the word was not yet e the sense of beg homosexual. Neher did I know the word homosexual.
TWO gay lovers who shared a teenage rent boy, while one was workg as a school b driver and the other was nng a mol railway club, were jailed yterday. Dow also admted an earlier homosexual act wh the child,. They pled guilty March, to mtg homosexual acts wh the boy between Augt 1 and September 12, 1996, at the toilets.
GAYS JAILED AFTER RENT BOY SNDAL
TWO gay lovers who shared a teenage rent boy, while one was workg as a school b driver and the other was nng a mol railway club, were… * 15yo gay boy *
Gay kids are g out earlier — sometim middle school — and many are fdg acceptance.
GAY KIDS COMG OUT YOUNGER, BUT PARENTS ASK "HOW DO YOU KNOW?"
* 15yo gay boy *
Enuraggly, beg young and openly gay seems to be gettg easier.
Denizet-Lewis wr that when he started workg for the gay men's magaze XY 1998, "we received dozens of letters each week om teenagers the pths of spair. " Three years later, he says, "a new kd of gay adolcent was appearg on the page - proud, rilient, sometim even happy. " He explas, That's not to say that gay teenagers didn't still suffer harassment at school or rejectn at home, but many seemed ls burned wh shame and self-loathg than their olr gay peers.
Not only were there creasgly accurate and posive portrayals of gays and lbians popular culture, but most teenagers were by then regular Inter ers.
TO BE YOUNG & GAY
In the 1990s, more and more gay teenagers are g out of the closet. A natnwi report on their stggle for acceptance. * 15yo gay boy *
Gog onle broke through the isolatn that had been a hallmark of beg young and gay, and allowed gay teenagers to fd rmatn to refute what their fai or church sometim still told them - namely, that they would never fd happs and to the Inter and to creasg cultural acceptance of homosexualy (an crease marred, we should note, by measur like Proposn 8), kids who might once have waed until high school or even llege to e out are now dog so earlier. At least 120 middle schools the untry have gay-straight alliance groups, and others let stunts observe the natnal Day of Silence prott agast anti-gay harassment. " They were not, however, silent: "Good luck gettg middle-schoolers not to talk, " the school unselor youth of the Webster kids and other gay middle-schoolers is a sign of how far gay rights have e — but 's also the kids' biggt obstacle to acceptance.
A tellg anecdote om Nadia, the mom of a gay 15-year-old named At.
" But she had actually asked At if he was gay when she found out he had lled a gay chat le. The irony of a parent spectg her kid is gay and then refg to believe he uld know his own orientatn highlights how much more difficulty some parents have wh burgeong gay sexualy than they would wh a straight kid's of this may have to do wh the misnceptn that you have to have gay terurse to be gay, or that homosexualy is somehow a more "sexual" orientatn than heterosexualy. 'Eileen Ross, director of a Mounta View, CA program for gay youth, says that when a 12-year-old boy says he lik girls, "No one says to them: 'Are you sure?
JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
A lawyer Florida argued that gay-straight allianc promote the "premature sexualizatn of the stunts, " and when At started a gay-straight alliance, his Michigan school ma him ll somethg "ls ntroversial" (he chose "Peace Alliance").
Denizet-Lewis reports the hopeful words of velopmental psychologist Rch Sav-Williams: "This is the first generatn of gay kids who have the great joy of beg able to argue wh their parents about datg, jt like their straight peers do.