The Latest Anti-Gay Oklahoma Bills Are Almost Too Crazy to Believe

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15. It is appalling

that we keep having to fight the same fights over and over. Whether LGBT, women, or people of color, every step forward seems to send the sharks into a frenzy.

What worries me the most is the horrible added pressure on LGBT youth. Adolescent angst is bad enough without having them painted as some kind of "other" who has to hide such a fundamental part of themselves. It is no wonder that depression and suicide are so prevalent.

On a brighter note, the teen sometimes-neighbor who spent the summer confiding in us because he was afraid for his fundamentalist Baptist relatives to know he is gay, was outed to his family and the world didn't come to an end. We saw him yesterday and he greeted us with sparkling eyes and a big grin to tell us he had a date for the basketball game. How normal!