I'm 14, I'm gay & I want a boyiend | Peter Tatchell

Contents:

• YOUNG GAY MEN KISSG STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• I’M 14, I’M GAY & I WANT A BOYIEND
• THERE'S CONTROVERSY OVER THAT GAY TEEN KISS ON 'THE FOSTERS'
• MY 14 YEAR OLD GAY SON IS SEEING A 17 YEAR OLD

YOUNG GAY MEN KISSG STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

Vio: The moment ABC Fay's The Fosters ma TV history by showg two 13-year-old characters lock lips the youngt ever gay kiss on-screen.

13-year-olds Ju (Hayn Byerly) and Connor (Gav MacIntosh) share a kiss on ABC Fay's The Fosters, makg TV history by showg the youngt ever gay kiss on-screen.

I’M 14, I’M GAY & I WANT A BOYIEND

Fourteen year old Lee tells about first sex, boyiends, g out, paedophilia, and why an age of nsent of 16 won’t help unr-age gays like him. Wearg a whe T-shirt and bat troers, his sophistited gay image mak him look olr than 14. The age of nsent laws don’t make easy for Lee to have a stable gay relatnship.

The law says that a homosexual act wh a male unr 16 is a ser crime, even if the person mtg the act is himself below the age of 16. Lee is jt one of a growg number of lbians and gays who are g out at an ever earlier age…twelve, thirteen and fourteen is not unmon nowadays. Rearch published by Project Sigma 1993 shows that 9 percent of gay men had their first homosexual experience by the age of 10, 19 percent by the age of 12, and 35 per cent by the age of 14.

Yet most gay mpaign groups seem only terted the human rights of the over-16s. “There’s nothg much for young gays like me”, says Lee. Lee first realised he was gay at the age of eight.

THERE'S CONTROVERSY OVER THAT GAY TEEN KISS ON 'THE FOSTERS'

Well, he didn’t ll himself gay. “My first gay sex was wh a iend om school lled John.

MY 14 YEAR OLD GAY SON IS SEEING A 17 YEAR OLD

How did you feel about your first gay experience?

So when did Lee start thkg of himself as beg gay?