ABSTRACT

29Two high school age men discuss coming out to friends and family in an oppressive community in the San Francisco Bay area. Sexuality and self-knowledge are important issues, but so is trying to decide what to do with one’s life, and where and how to do it, when one’s options are still limited by age and geography. Excerpts compiled from In Your Face: Stories from the Lives of Gay Youth, Mary L. Gray, editor, 1999.