Comments on: Banned Books Week 2010: Footnotes http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/banned-books-week-2010-footnotes/ the neverending reference interview of life Fri, 24 May 2013 07:03:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Andy http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/banned-books-week-2010-footnotes/#comment-1997 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 01:35:16 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/banned-books-week-2010-footnotes/#comment-1997 Thanks for the comment. I don’t think the media has reached oversaturation on the negative elements of being a LGBT teen, but I am concerned that the message will get missed. The message that, like other teens facing their own crises of different magnitudes, these teens need just as much support as those others. That making resources available for these teens is important to prevent as many future tragedies as possible.

]]> By: gayinpublic http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/banned-books-week-2010-footnotes/#comment-1994 Tue, 05 Oct 2010 04:02:43 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/banned-books-week-2010-footnotes/#comment-1994 Great post, Andy. Having held both men and women’s hands in public, I can say holding a man’s is more interpersonally perilous but I still feel considerable better holding a man’s (and one in particular’s).

There is a *lot* of talk lately about how tough it is to be a gay teen due to all the recent, highly publicized suicides, and it’s good that we talk about it, though I do worry about the overemphasis on the negative parts of being LGBT. Either way, acknowledging it can be tough goes a long way towards making it easier, so thank you!

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