What's Life Like For Gay Kids In Public Schools? : NPR

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High school is a challengg time for most teens. It n be even more so for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr stunts. Judy Chiasson of the Los Angel Unified School District and Eliza Byard, executive director of the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network talk about beg openly LGBT school.

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GAY KIDS COMG OUT YOUNGER, BUT PARENTS ASK "HOW DO YOU KNOW?"

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. * foto gay kids *

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(Photo by Jemal Counts/Getty Imag)JOSE CABEZAS via Getty ImagA young girl s durg a Gay Pri para along Roosevelt Avenue San Salvador on June 29, 2013. AFP PHOTO/Jose CABEZASMichael Nagle via Getty ImagA girl high fiv a reveler as she march the New York Cy Gay Pri march on June 24, 2012 New York Cy.

The annual civil rights monstratn memorat the Stonewall rts of 1969, which epted after a police raid on a gay bar, the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Getty Imag)Dondi Tawatao via Getty ImagA boy plays unr a rabow flag durg the Manila Gay Pri march on December 8, 2012 Makati, Philipp. AFP PHOTO / YASUYOSHI CHIBAALEJANDRO PAGNI via Getty ImagA girl holds a rabow flag of the LGBT movement durg the XXI Gay Pri para at Mayo Square Buenos Air on November 10, 2012.

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(Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Imag)TIZIANA FABI via Getty ImagA young girl sportg rabow lours tak part the annual Gay Pri para Rome on June 7, 2014. (Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Imag)Pacific Prs via Getty ImagA Filipo woman ss on a rabow flag wh her child durg a Gay Pri event Quezon Cy, east of Manila, Philipp, 2015.

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Thoands of LBGTQ members marched along Manila's ma thoroughfare as they celebrate Manila's 21st Gay Pri Para 2015. AFP PHOTO/Nicholas KAMMMail Today via Getty ImagA child looks on durg a Gay Pri para New Delhi on November 28, 2010.

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(Photo by Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Imag)FRANCISCO LEONG via Getty ImagA mother and child play unr a giant rabow flag durg the Gay Pri para downtown Lisbon on June 24, 2006.

(Photo by Tabatha Fireman/Getty Imag)JACK GUEZ via Getty ImagAn Israeli girl ss on a relative's shoulrs wavg the rabow flag, the ternatnal symbol of gay pri, durg the annual Gay Pri para along the streets of Tel Aviv on June 6, 2008. (Photo by Gee Panagakis/Pacific Prs/LightRocket via Getty Imag)NurPhoto via Getty ImagKids are rried over the shoulrs of their parents durg the Annual Gay Pri para Tel Aviv on June 12, 2015.

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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.

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Not only were there creasgly accurate and posive portrayals of gays and lbians popular culture, but most teenagers were by then regular Inter ers. 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. " 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? 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").

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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. And maybe today's gay kids are slowly startg to receive via New York Tim Out In Middle School [NYT Magaze].

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