Coming Out in Middle School

Austin didn’t know what to wear to his first gay dance last spring. It was bad enough that the gangly 13-year-old from Sand Springs, Okla., had to go without his boyfriend at the time, a 14-year-old star athlete at another middle school, but there were also laundry issues. “I don’t have any clean clothes!” he complained to me by text message, his favored method of communication.

When I met up with him an hour later, he had weathered his ... Full Story »

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Erin Elise Accomando
3.9
by Erin Elise Accomando - Sep. 28, 2009

To be honest, it's a nice little coming-out-of-age story, but it isn't quality journalism. The article doesn't have much relevance to anything of news quality.

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