Reflection

Reflection

Reflection

Introduction

Austin didn't understand what to wear to his first gay promenade last spring. It was awful sufficient that the gangly 13-year-old from Sand Springs, Okla., had to proceed without his beau at the time, a 14-year-old celebrity athlete at another middle school, but there were furthermore laundry issues.( Lewis 2009) “I don't have any clean clothes!” he deplored to me by text note, his highly ranked procedure of communication.

 

Discussion

Austin didn't understand what to wear to his first gay promenade last spring. It was awful sufficient that the gangly 13-year-old from Sand Springs, Okla., had to proceed without his beau at the time, a 14-year-old celebrity athlete at another middle school, but there were furthermore laundry issues. .( Lewis 2009) “I don't have any clean clothes!” he deplored to me by text note, his highly ranked procedure of communication.

The demanding school know-how of so numerous gay and lesbian scholars — and the suicides last jump of a sixth grader in Massachusetts and a fifth grader in Georgia, both of who were relentlessly bullied at school for seeming gay — strengthens the longtime narrative of gay youth in crisis. .( Lewis 2009) Studies in the '80s and '90s discovered gay teenagers to be at a considerably higher risk for despondency, matter misuse and suicide than their heterosexual peers.

When I went to work in 1998 for XY, a nationwide publication for juvenile gay men, we obtained dozens of notes each week from teenagers in the depths of despair. Some had been hurled out by their families; other ones dwelled at dwelling but were recalled often that they were intrinsically flawed. My appearance at XY (at 23, I was only three years out of the wardrobe myself) coincided with the origin of the Trevor Project, which sprints a nationwide 24-hour urgent position and suicide ...