Personal Narrative: Homosexuals In High School

When I was little, I was picked on because I was “different.” I didn’t know how or why I was different. As I got older it became clear that life isn’t like a fairytale – it doesn’t have happy endings and traveling to new places doesn’t make it better. I learned this when we moved from NC to Florida for my seventh grade year. Ever since then I have slowly been expressing my “gay” self. Florida is where it all began, where the world waited for the boy who had no one. I was a reject, outsider, and “different.” I was tormented in Florida, just as I was in North Carolina. The only difference was that this time I had a true friend. A kid I didn’t even know stood up for me when no one else would; Jacob was my best friend all throughout that year. Then disaster struck: I was moving. In my eighth grade year I was picked on for being “different,” again. Fortunately, my new best friends, Daniel and Meghan, were there for me when no one else was, and they still are …show more content…
The report, entitled “Sexual Identity, Sex of Sexual Contacts, and Health Risk Behaviors Among Students in grades 9-12 in selected sites—Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance, United States, 2001-2009,” was released on June 6. The information came from surveys of about 156,000 high school students. “This report should be a wake-up call for families, schools and communities that we need to do a much better job of supporting these young people,” Howard Wechsler, EdD, MPH, of the CDC says in a news release. “Any effort to promote adolescent health and safety must take into account the additional stressors these youth experience because of their sexual orientation, such as stigma, discrimination and victimization.” (Gay Teens at Higher