To Be Young and Gay in LA - This LA Weekly story deals with the fact that kids are coming out earlier and earlier, a topic we've addressed before on Beaverhausen, in terms of MTV True Life and the private gay school in Dallas. Yet the question still remains for me, why would you come out to your family, at such a young age, when circumstances are such that you might end up on the streets? I also have a great deal of difficulty identifying with people who claim to have been having sex since they were 6 or having their first boyfriend at 13. How can you have any sense of clarity at such a young age, about sexual identity or anything else? Even with greater societal acceptance and positive media portrayals, I remain closeminded (and a little jealous) toward adolescents who (seemingly) are able to successfully integrate their sexual identity into their lives at at such a young age.