For this series, which is long overdue.
“The amount of attention that has been given to debates over L.G.B.T. issues in the last year is another sign of how deeply American society remains divided over L.G.B.T. issues,” said George Chauncey, a Yale University professor of 20th century United States history and lesbian and gay history, referring to lesbians and gay, bisexual and transgender people. “And it has made it clear to young people just how much opposition remains.”
The New York Times embarked on the project “Coming Out,” which begins Monday, as an effort to better understand this generation’s realities and expectations, and to give teenagers their own voice in this conversation.
This is going to have a two-fold benefit, at least: one, the stories will get out there, the realities will start to hit people's consciousness, and two, these kids are going to become real people to too many who are used to thinking of us as an abstraction.
The third benefit is that the religious right is going to hemorrage bile, which will bring home just how sleazy they are.
It's a win-win.
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