Born 50 years too late......

[spiro3]

Anyone else read the cover story on gay teens in a recent issue of TIME mag?

 

http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1112856,00.html

 

Fortunately, I picked a copy up in the Portland Airport, as I haven't seen a single issue on display here in Colorado.....pulled by the management?

 

Anyway, there are a couple of interesting points made by the article; that gay Christian teens seem pretty relaxed with their orientation and act more stereotypically gay than their bretheren who are active in their high school GSA clubs Also that, despite the universality of the phrase "That's so gay" in teen-speak, most straight teens nowadays think it very uncool to be anti-gay.

 

Another thing I appreciated in the article were the gay teens photographed were pretty normal looking....not the usual punk, freak, flamers the press usually trot out. Some of the boys would cause a stir on this site......

 

Can't help wonder how my life might have been different if such an article had come out when I was a teen.......

[Retired Fly Boy]

A member of my family is a local television news director in a major market. He told me, whenever a story comes up about gay day or gay men, the producer will edit out all the normal or handsome men. His reason is, we do not want to make the gay life style look good to any teen boys who might be watching this clip.

[Guest zipperzone]

>A member of my family is a local television news director in

>a major market. He told me, whenever a story comes up about

>gay day or gay men, the producer will edit out all the normal

>or handsome men. His reason is, we do not want to make the gay

>life style look good to any teen boys who might be watching

>this clip.

 

Now that's just plain sick!

[whipped guy]

> the producer will edit out all the normal

 

This happens with ALL news... and is the reason one should not blindly trust what one reads, hears, or sees in news reports as the absolute truth!

[JT Brooklyn]

Definitely Whipped. I personally stopped doing that a LONG TIME AGO!

I might pay a little more attention to what they are saying Lately, but donot take any of it as, the Absolute! It's sort of like reading some of the "Workin Guys" ADS..:+

[Guest msclonly]

RE: Born 50 years too late.or too early?..

 

Are you sure that you didn't mean you were 'Born 50 years too late...?

 

Which is it?

 

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