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Contents:
- AT WHAT AGE DO KIDS INTIFY AS GAY?
- THE DIGAL SEX LIV OF YOUNG GAY TEENAGERS
- A GAY TEEN DISVERS HIMSELF AT SUMMER MP THIS FLAMER FIRST LOOK
- FIVE YEARS OLD AND GAY RURAL, WTERN KANSAS
- GAY YOUTH COMG OUT IN MIDDLE SCHOOL
- ‘YOUNG GAY PEOPLE BEG OUT AND HAPPY? IT’S REVOLUTNARY!’ MEET THE HEARTSTOPPER GENERATN
- UNRAGE GAY AND BI TEENS USE GRDR FOR MORE THAN JT HOOKUPS, STUDY FDSDPE S AGE RTRICTNS, THE LGBT HOOKUP APP ULD BE HELPG GAY AND BI TEEN BOYS E OUT AND FD {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY SAM MANZELLAMAY 21, 2018/11:31 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:3754PX;WIDTH:5631PX;}LEON NEAL/GETTY IMAGLONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 24: THE "GRDR" APP LOGO IS SEEN AMONGST OTHER DATG APPS ON A MOBILE PHONE SCREEN ON NOVEMBER 24, 2016 LONDON, ENGLAND. FOLLOWG A NUMBER OF ATHS LKED TO THE E OF ANONYMO ONLE DATG APPS, THE POLICE HAVE WARNED ERS TO BE AWARE OF THE RISKS VOLVED, FOLLOWG THE GROWTH THE SLE OF VLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSLTS LKED TO THEIR E. 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MORE THAN 50% OF RPONNTS REPORTED G GRDR AND SIAR LGBT DATG APPS FOR MORE THAN JT SEX—SPE, OF URSE, THE APP'S 18+ OR 21+ AGE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE STUDY'S THORS SAY 'S THE FIRST EP DIVE TO THE SEXUAL HABS OF GAY AND BI TEEN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I WAS SURPRISED WE DIDN’T KNOW THIS RMATN WHEN WE STARTED THE STUDY, BUT A LOT OF FOLKS DON’T DO REARCH ON PEOPLE UNR THE AGE OF 18, PECIALLY ON LGBT TEENS UNR THE AGE OF 18, FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS," THOR DR. KATHRYN MAPAGAL, A PROFSOR AT NORTHWTERN UNIVERSY, TOLD THE CHIGO TRIBUNE. "WE FOUND THAT TEENS THIS STUDY WERE SUPER EXCED THAT SOMEBODY WAS PAYG ATTENTN WH WHAT WAS GOG ON THEIR LIV, AND HOW THE APPS PLAYED A ROLE THEIR SEXUAL VELOPMENT AND G-OUT PROCS."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}REARCHERS BELIEVE THAT THE APP'S FUNCTNALI MIGHT APPEAL TO CLOSETED OR NEWLY OUT TEENS, WHO MIGHT BE NAVIGATG SAME-SEX DATG OR SEXUAL RELATNSHIPS FOR THE FIRST {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"WE ALSO FOUND THAT ALTHOUGH [TEENS] MIGHT HAVE HAD SEXUAL RELATNS WH [OTHER GRDR ERS], THE FOLKS MIGHT HAVE TURNED TO IENDS, THEY MIGHT HAVE TURNED TO BOYIENDS," MAPAGAL ADD. "SO THERE IS SOME EVINCE THAT YOUTH ARE GETTG LOTS MORE OUT OF THE APPS THAN JT SEXUAL RELATNSHIPS."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE TEAM ALSO FOUND THAT PARTICIPANTS WHO ED GRDR WERE MORE LIKELY TO ACCS SEXUAL HEALTHRE SERVIC, LIKE HIV {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN A STATEMENT, GRDR SAID THAT DO NOT NDONE E OF THE APP BY ANYBODY WHO IS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
- AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL
- UNSEEN, PART 3: POPULAR GAY DATG APP GRDR POS EXPLOATN RISK TO MORS
AT WHAT AGE DO KIDS INTIFY AS GAY?
One of the ma issu wh trackg when kids intify as gay is that most people assume that all kids start out straight. * under age gay *
One of the ma issu wh trackg when kids start to intify as gay is that most people assume that all kids start out straight. The realy is that many kids know they are gay at a younger age than you might expect – even elementary school.
That beg said, some rearchers om the Sexualy Informatn and Edutn Council of the Uned Stat talked wh llege stunts who intify as gay and bisexual to learn when they were aware of their sexual preferenc. This data prov the vast majory of LGBTQ+ kids intify as gay before they leave for llege – or intify their sexual preferenc shortly after. “As long as I was the closet, all of my cisns — both nsc and subnsc — were guid by not wantg people to know I was gay, ” Felts told the Washgton Post.
THE DIGAL SEX LIV OF YOUNG GAY TEENAGERS
There's a way to burst through the shame gay men are ma to feel about homosexualy. * under age gay *
After buildg a fanbase for the sumptuo queer and gay photography books and onle prence they've built unr the BOYS! "The simple answer is that queer and gay photography is grossly unrreprented the fe art world, and even more so the mastream media. Is phg back agast this and attemptg to make mastream and showsg queer and gay photography the ntext of fe art photography.
They have failed to protect mors, who simply have to subtract a few years om their birth date to create a om the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn and a new study The Journal of Adolcent Health together suggt that roughly one four gay and bisexual boys aged 14 to 17 the Uned Stat are on gay hookup apps signed for adults (Grdr, Scff, Jack’d, Adam4Adam). But this brgs up nfintialy risks for gay men who don’t want to be uld also e algorhms to tect nversatns between mors and adults. When I searched onle for “gay chat, ” as a lonely, closeted child might, the first h was #1 Chat Avenue.
Parents also need to stay lm, so that the kids feel fortable g back to them if they ever end up a bad suatn, like if a sry stranger won’t stop a society, we have failed to create enough spac for gay youth to thrive, phg them onle and unrground.
A GAY TEEN DISVERS HIMSELF AT SUMMER MP THIS FLAMER FIRST LOOK
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A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 27 of the New York edn wh the headle: Young, Gay and Vulnerable Onle. Related: 15 Gay Romantic Films That Will Make You Believe Happily Ever After(Imag urty of their rpective studs). This 2018 romantic edy-drama follows Simon, a 17-year-old who has not yet e out to his iends or fay and fds himself nversatg onle wh an anonymo gay stunt who go by the name "Blue.
Based loosely on Shakpeare's Henry IV, Part 1 & 2, and Henry V plays, this movie shows the journey of gay htlers Mike and Stt, and their search for Mike's mother.
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. * under age gay *
UFO enthiast Brian reprs the memory and nvc himself he was a victim an alien abductn, whereas Neil mov to New York to seek fulfillment as a gay sex worker.
Somewhat based on Dolan's life, the film follows the plited, sometim tense relatnship between a young gay man and his mother. A edy pokg fun at the "gay bt iend" stereotype, the film explor g out high school and navigatg iendships and school when that happens.
GAY YOUTH COMG OUT IN MIDDLE SCHOOL
For most kids, the social prsur of middle school are tough enough. But an creasg number of young teenagers, some as young 10 or 11, are g out as gay or lbian middle school. Beno Denizet-Lewis, who wrote about the trend the New York Tim Magaze, discs what social factors uld be leadg young people to e out earlier. * under age gay *
As the only out young gay kid at my school, I took the advancement of my sexual experienc to my own hands and I did what we all do: I bought a fake ID and h the gay clubs. While I knew wouldn’t be like a gay llege eroti I’d read on (gay non, really), I rather naively wasn’t expectg the fall out.
I realize I fell to that old gay adage of placg my feelgs on a person who, for whatever reason, was never gog to vt them back me. Worst of all, though, the shame attached to the memori of those first tim marred how I would approach sex for was listeng to Years & Years’ new song “Sanctify, ” and seeg the band’s out gay sger Olly Alexanr talk about how the song was spired his sexual trysts wh straight men, that I realized that the feelgs are way more mon than people let on.
Sure, I know all about gay guys havg sex wh straight guys, but felt reassurg to see him scribe the “sat and sner role” he embodied durg those experienc, and to hear the uncertaty and melancholy weaved to the than anythg though, was the repeated lyril mantra of “I won’t be ashamed. - The world's first fe art photography magaze dited to queer and gay 2 - the Pri Issue featur ten photographers om ne untri: AY (UK), David Charl Colls (Atralia), Matthew Fley (USA), Ashish Gupta (India), Manuel Monyo (Mexi), Juan Anton Papagni Me (Argenta), Sebastian Perotti (Argenta), Mric A. It now reprents more than 67 photographers om 27 untri - cludg Cha, India, Iran, Poland, Rsia and Turkey where gay rights are reprsed and queer liv unr nstant have been onle and physil exhibns, and two sold out BOYS!
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UNRAGE GAY AND BI TEENS USE GRDR FOR MORE THAN JT HOOKUPS, STUDY FDSDPE S AGE RTRICTNS, THE LGBT HOOKUP APP ULD BE HELPG GAY AND BI TEEN BOYS E OUT AND FD {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY SAM MANZELLAMAY 21, 2018/11:31 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:3754PX;WIDTH:5631PX;}LEON NEAL/GETTY IMAGLONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 24: THE "GRDR" APP LOGO IS SEEN AMONGST OTHER DATG APPS ON A MOBILE PHONE SCREEN ON NOVEMBER 24, 2016 LONDON, ENGLAND. FOLLOWG A NUMBER OF ATHS LKED TO THE E OF ANONYMO ONLE DATG APPS, THE POLICE HAVE WARNED ERS TO BE AWARE OF THE RISKS VOLVED, FOLLOWG THE GROWTH THE SLE OF VLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSLTS LKED TO THEIR E. 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MORE THAN 50% OF RPONNTS REPORTED G GRDR AND SIAR LGBT DATG APPS FOR MORE THAN JT SEX—SPE, OF URSE, THE APP'S 18+ OR 21+ AGE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE STUDY'S THORS SAY 'S THE FIRST EP DIVE TO THE SEXUAL HABS OF GAY AND BI TEEN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I WAS SURPRISED WE DIDN’T KNOW THIS RMATN WHEN WE STARTED THE STUDY, BUT A LOT OF FOLKS DON’T DO REARCH ON PEOPLE UNR THE AGE OF 18, PECIALLY ON LGBT TEENS UNR THE AGE OF 18, FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS," THOR DR. KATHRYN MAPAGAL, A PROFSOR AT NORTHWTERN UNIVERSY, TOLD THE CHIGO TRIBUNE. "WE FOUND THAT TEENS THIS STUDY WERE SUPER EXCED THAT SOMEBODY WAS PAYG ATTENTN WH WHAT WAS GOG ON THEIR LIV, AND HOW THE APPS PLAYED A ROLE THEIR SEXUAL VELOPMENT AND G-OUT PROCS."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}REARCHERS BELIEVE THAT THE APP'S FUNCTNALI MIGHT APPEAL TO CLOSETED OR NEWLY OUT TEENS, WHO MIGHT BE NAVIGATG SAME-SEX DATG OR SEXUAL RELATNSHIPS FOR THE FIRST {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"WE ALSO FOUND THAT ALTHOUGH [TEENS] MIGHT HAVE HAD SEXUAL RELATNS WH [OTHER GRDR ERS], THE FOLKS MIGHT HAVE TURNED TO IENDS, THEY MIGHT HAVE TURNED TO BOYIENDS," MAPAGAL ADD. "SO THERE IS SOME EVINCE THAT YOUTH ARE GETTG LOTS MORE OUT OF THE APPS THAN JT SEXUAL RELATNSHIPS."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE TEAM ALSO FOUND THAT PARTICIPANTS WHO ED GRDR WERE MORE LIKELY TO ACCS SEXUAL HEALTHRE SERVIC, LIKE HIV {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN A STATEMENT, GRDR SAID THAT DO NOT NDONE E OF THE APP BY ANYBODY WHO IS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
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. I read a lot about youth culture and I was talkg to tors and, you know, lears of gay youth groups and they were all sayg the same thg.
When realy, if you talk to a gay man, you know, many of them lookg back will say, you know, I noticed my same sex attractn, you know, at 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 that ballpark.
AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL
I mean, one of the tertg thgs that we have to look at is this, is that much of the anti-gay bullyg and anti-gay harassment that's gog on middle schools and high school is more about genr non-nformy than really is about beg gay or lbian. But you say that when to kids who say that they are gay, 's almost like we want to talk them out of . Is that beg gay or lbian is still enough of a pariah inty that parents want to take off the table as long as they n, or is jt that parents really feel that all kids are sexualized too early the days, and they don't want their kids at this age thkg about, you know, hookg up?
So was really - and a lot of parents, when they heard their kid, their 12-, 13-, 14-year-old say, you know, I'm gay, or I'm bisexual, or I'm lbian, they tomatilly went to oh my god, that means he's havg sex, when realy wasn't about that at all. DENIZET-LEWIS: I thk that there's no doubt that sort of as you have more posive portrayals and, I would say, accurate portrayals of gay and lbian life the media, and kids n go onle and fd all kds of rourc, that there's no doubt that that's gog to have an effect on kids, and that they're gog to possibly e out earlier bee of that.
UNSEEN, PART 3: POPULAR GAY DATG APP GRDR POS EXPLOATN RISK TO MORS
Now, I don't thk that those posive portrayals of gay life is gog to sort of make a kid who's not attracted to the same sex sudnly say, you know, hey, this seems really ol. What I thk that the more posive portrayals popular culture has done is 's ma a ltle b safer for kids who do feel that they're gay or lbian to be able to e to their parents or school unselor and talk about the issu, which I thk is a real step forward bee for many years, kids who had same-sex attractn or were nfed, they uldn't talk to anyone about . You know, granted I lived San Francis, but none of my iends were gay, or none of the kids my age were gay.
So, you know, nsequently I sort of went nial mo, which is what a lot of gay kids have done for many years, and then my early 20s and mid-20s and late 20s, as many gay men do who don't e out until late, we sort of try to relive our gay adolcence that we weren't allowed to live. And so what's remarkable, now, is I thk we're gog to see, as more and more kids e out younger and are sort of able to have a normal adolcence the sense that, you know, I talked to kids who were havg arguments wh their parents about gog on dat when they're 15 or 16 or 17 or gog to the prom or sort of, you know, havg their normal adolcence, I thk 's gog to create an entirely different kd of gay and lbian adult the next 10, 20, 30 years.