What do kids in High school learn about becoming Gay?
143784
Careful there.  The dog's watching
244864
Well it has been proven that many people are gay have felt felt an attraction to other guys when they are little kids, around gradeschool.  There are many theories about this, but the mind is a hard thing to explain.  I do think that most of your answers are plausible, but as I mentioned above, most know from an early age.
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Be careful with homosexuality statistics...\n\nI wrote a paper on teenage homosexuality in college, and found out that MOST studies are biased towards pro-gay groups or pro-Christian groups. Hardly any of them are accurate.\n\nI think that in the end, I ended up citing that 11% of men are gay and 5% or women are gay. (Please don't quote me on that... I'm telling you this from memory)\n\nIf you need help with this, I can look and see if I still have my old research paper (no promises). Just email me at aerosynth929@yahoo.com.
564385
good for you you made it through high school \nnow you will begin a new education \nits called life and you have a lot to learn because now your in the real world now . and on the road to becoming an adult .. the safety net of school is no longer there . welcome to the real world with all its responsibly and lesions \ntry to learn something new every day on your new journey in to the real world ..\n congrats and good luck
1135608
Well, if you do this at a young age, know that you will lose a lot of friends and will maintain only those who really honestly truly are your friends.  Be prepared to spend time being made fun of and being ridiculed and harassed, this usually lasts during High School plus anyways students always find something to torment each other about.  \n\nThe "light" is, you are honest with yourself and you will make new friends and meet people who honestly like you for you.  You can move on with your life and learn to become more adapted in your shoes.\n\nKnow that being gay is not about sex and don't fall prey to older guys who will take advantage of your new found sense of self.  Join a group for gay youth and check on the Internet for religious gay youth groups too, ones that will focus more on your spirituality and realtionship with God rather than on your being gay.\n\nBeing Gay is not a bad thing or a sin, it is who you are and you will have to learn to be Happy with yourself in spite of the people who will try to bring you down and condemn you, remember God loves everyone, man hates and creates hate, there is support out there for you, but don't be taken advantage of.\n\nAs an athiest you dont have to believe in religion and don't believe in God but think of all the good things on earth and spiritually find yourself, don't abandon that,  it will keep you focused and give you comfort when you need it.\n\nGood Luck.
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Coming out is a continuous process.  Soon most of your friends acquaintances will know, then it's not an issue...  but every once in a while you'll be faceed with that weird situation where you have to come out again!  \n\nPeople somehow seem to know I'm gay...  they were telling me I was gay before I knew what gay was!!!  Not that I'm a flamer or anything!  Somehow it just comes through.  It makes it a little easier!\n\nMost people are cool.  You shouldn't run into too many problems!\n\nThe whole experience of being gay  I recently learned is for everyone to learn tolerance!  That's putting a spiritual spin on the whole situation!  If you look at it that way, it gives you a sense of purpose!\n\nGregory
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How do YOU know they are gay?  Sounds like you might listen to pop music in the closet.
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You can't really determine your sexuality untill around the onset of puberty, but when that time comes and you're staring at the same teachers that the opposite gender is.,.. there's a clue that maybe you dont swing the standard way.\nBut let me ask you this, if they cant be born gay, that means you couldnt have been born straight, and was there ever a time when you were thinking hmmm, girls or boys, girls or boys...?
935658
Who knows what they teach nowadays!  When I had sex ed and health class in middle school and high school about a decade ago they taught a lot about the internal organs, menstruation, prostate cancer etc., STD's, and pregnancy cycle.
545817
Talk to them about how about the challenges of being true to yourself, being a real person, an individual...and all the pressures throughout high school to conform to the expectations of peer groups...
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As a gay Christian I can truthfully answer you by saying that it is not a simple matter of just stopping being gay and starting being straight.\n\nI knew from about the age of 12 that I was "different" from all the other boys, I just didn't know a word to describe that difference. It wasn't that I was "girly" because I wasn't, I did all the same things all the other boys did but I was just "different". As I got older I knew what that difference was and I knew from church that it was "wrong".\n\nI prayed so hard for God to change me - I worked in the Church, I sang in the choir, I did everything I could to let God know that I was a good boy. I tried extra hard at school, I didn't swear, I did everything my parents asked. all the other kids hated me because I was a "goody two shoes" but still I wanted God to know that I wanted to be "normal.\n\nI prayed and prayed and prayed. I abstained from ALL sex in the vain hope that if I just didn't have sex at all God would make me "normal". I continued to go to Church and listen to the hypocrisy from the pulpit even knowing that sitting just over there was an adulterer and everybody in the congregation knew it (including his wife and the priest). Yet still God would not make me "normal".\n\nWhy was I being punished? What did I ever do wrong? I had only ever did good things, I had done Community Service for the elderly, joined Cadets and cleared up after bushfires, collected money for the Red Cross and Guide Dogs for the Blind. Why, oh why was I being punished?\n\nThen at the ripe old age of 32 I could stand it no longer. I did not turn my back on God but we came to an understanding. I realised that God made me just as I am!\n\nYou see God is incapable of making mistakes, He doesn't put people on this earth to torture them, nor does He put them here for people like you to abuse us. What He puts us here for is to test our faith and to test yours.\n\nYou see I have passed my test. You on the other hand need to keep reading the Bible and look at Jesus' teachings. Just read the Gospels - don't worry about the interpretations that come after they were all written well after Jesus was long gone. They are the Chinese whispers Books.\n\nDon't listen to the false prophets that stand in the pulpits of the Churches because they don't have a clue. Remember it was those same Priests that Jesus argued with when He was here the first time because they get too caught up in the WORDS they forget the MEANINGS. This is what He said:\n\nMatthew 23\nSeven Woes \n 1Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: 2"The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. 3So you must obey them and do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. 4They tie up heavy loads and put them on men's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them. \n 5"Everything they do is done for men to see: They make their phylacteries[a] wide and the tassels on their garments long; 6they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues; 7they love to be greeted in the marketplaces and to have men call them 'Rabbi.' \n\n 8"But you are not to be called 'Rabbi,' for you have only one Master and you are all brothers. 9And do not call anyone on earth 'father,' for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. 10Nor are you to be called 'teacher,' for you have one Teacher, the Christ.[b] 11The greatest among you will be your servant. 12For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. \n\n 13"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.[c] \n\n 15"Woe to you, te
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i think as young as 13 you don't know wat you want really I'm sure they think they are gay but somepeolpe decide that earlier in life than others. So I guess it just depends on the person and if they are young and know that they want to be gay thats their oppinion and not ours to judge.
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Fear and ignorance.\n\nIf a person gets freaked out by the notion that someone around them is gay it's usually because they are afraid that the gay person will see some obvious gay traits that they have and "out" them.  Not only is this an unreasonable expectation to put onto someone, it leads to fear, hysteria, and violence.  \n\nNobody can "make" you gay, and if you are afraid you might have some traits, YOU DO, everybody does, that alone doesn't make you gay (or straight for that matter!)\n\nGender can be graphed on a bell curve, and everyone has a combination of male and female traits.  It's perfectly normal.  I wish the ones who react with fear could get over their irrationality as much as you do!
553019
"becoming" gay does not sound correct. Either you know inside that there is something different when you look at either a male or a female which ever one you prefer. You can't just become gay,,,you actually feel the desire to be with that particular sex...now what you do afterwards to either keep it going or difuse it is totally up to you.
280125
This may sound whiney, but growing up as the "gay kid" in my school wasnt fun at times.  I remember being made fun of so badly as far back as 5th grade.  Being teased that much as a young child can do some major damage, now I get treated for depression and severe anxiety.  Nice way to treat a kid, huh? lol
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ok, im 13. most of what i know, believe it or not, i learned from the show south park. here are some examples of what i learned.\n\nscientology\nmorman\nmongolia was the reason that chinese built the great wall\nsex (no uncomfortable dad/son moments)\nall i know about diseases like AIDS\ni cud go on and on, but i dont have the time right now. \n\nbut the without the internet, i wud no nothing about immigration, or george bush, or that carolina is trying to legalize marijuana. the internet has helped me in many ways, but u no, im not sum nerdy faggot! im actually smart, but i can kick many peoples asses at my school... im in the eigth grade now, but i look 15 or 16. i have mustache! and hair on my neck, legs hairer than my dads. i mean u may think i dont have much hair, but it is a lot of hair. i have not met one adult who had hairer legs than me. or teenager. but idk how the hell i got so personal there. lol. \n\nok. internet good, south park good.\nnews boring. adults tryin to talk to u, gay!!.
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there's no way to become straight just like no one can become gay.  It's just a matter of finding yourself and accepting yourself for who you are.  I know it can suck right now but trust me in the future you'll be okay with who you are.  if you're still young it probably sucks but it will get better.  Trust me.  Good luck!!