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Have 40 Years of Pride Made Life Easier for Todays Gay Teens?

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Have 40 Years of Pride Made Life Easier for Today’s Gay Teens? Sunday June 28, 2009#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) In New York, where I live, today is the 39th Gay Pride Parade. This marks the end of a month of pride events–events that simply wouldn’t have been imaginable forty years ago in the pre-Stonewall era. So what has been the legacy of Stonewall for today’s GLBT teens? For one thing, despite all the challenges that gay teens face, today’s world also presents them with some pretty awesome opportunities. For example, kids are coming out younger than ever before, and despite the setbacks of California’s Proposition 8, gay marriage is a reality for the first time ever. Additionally, today’s teens are living in a world where Hollywood has moved from showing gays only as pathetic or predatory to por