Showing Gay Teenagers a Happy Future

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Quote :: Q.

Aren’t celebrities like Ellen DeGeneres and Adam Lambert already showing teenagers that it’s O.K. to be gay?
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They see Ellen and Adam Lambert and Neil Patrick Harris. They’re good folks and important public figures, but those are gay celebrities. What are the odds of becoming a celebrity? What kids have a hard time picturing is a rewarding, good, average life for themselves. Becoming Ellen is like winning the lottery. But there are a lot of happy and content lesbians who we don’t see or hear from ever. Those are the people teens need to hear from right now. When a 15-year-old kills himself, he’s saying he can’t picture a future that is decent enough and happy enough to stick around for. Gay adults can show our present lives and help them picture a future.

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Quote :: Society
“Adam Lambert, whose attention-grabbing run on American Idol was largely interpreted as a referendum on tolerance… Not everyone has to be a Lambert fan to appreciate the power of his position to influence our cultural and social attitudes for the better…” Out.com, 2010, describing Lambert in its 4th Annual Power 50.

Remember the media frenzy about Ellen DeGeneres’s sexuality? That was 13 years ago. Today Modern Family’s Lily and her two-daddy lifestyle hardly raises an eyebrow and episodes of Will & Grace are one of South Korea’s favourite imports.