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Today, support services for gay, bisexual, and transgendered youth exist in many communities, seminarys and on the Internet. however in 1977, when then--Advocate reporter Randy Shilts wrote the magazine's first special report onward young gay people, their options were limited at best. The story about young gay persons he wrote, was "also a story about violence, ostracism, alienation--and sometimes suicide. It's a story that penurys to be told because increasing numbers of young gay nation are coming to grips with their homosexuality at younger ages."

Teen interviewed included Sarah, 17 who at 15 was controled to rumors that she'd tried to feel one's way other girls. "I began hating [gays] before I calm knew who they were," she said, adding that as she realized she was attracted to women this translated into hating herself.

Tom Ammiano, who in 1977 chaired San Francisco's Gay Teachers' Caucus and now is president of that city's board of supervisors, told Shilts that many gay teachers feared they would jeopardize their careers if they helped gay pupils But organizations like Boston's shoot forward Lambda were beginning to recognize the ne for gay youth services in a post--gay liberation world.

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