This Gay and Age | Growing Pains Category | PBS Online Film Festival

Watch and vote for "This Gay and Age," a film which examines the gay stereotypes that bombard LGBT youth and the way these stereotypes impact the way we think about sexuality. To cast your vote in this category, visit each film's YouTube page (Clara Como El Agua Life's Poison, Man in the Mirror, My Name is Seven, or This Gay and Age), and click the thumbs up "like" button at the bottom of the video player.To cast your vote in this category, visit each film's YouTube page (Clara Como El Agua Life's Poison, Man in the Mirror, My Name is Seven, or This Gay and Age), and click the thumbs up "like" button at the bottom of the video player. Check out the five "Growing Pains" videos at: http://to.pbs.org/pbsolff

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[jjguy23]

Im glad PBS shows gays on tv. I remember being younger and trying to look for something to connect with. I found In the Life, which really made my outlook on being gay much better. I felt like I wasn't alone.

Thanks PBS.

[MengoMango]

Most people fail to understand just how torturous a gay childhood can be. Not a day goes by in a gay closeted child's life that they are not constantly vigilant of their own behavior and the sheer terror that consumes their minds when they think someone may have figured them out. The dread of the inevitable day when they must come out is a major factor in suicides.

[Pretty Monroe]

i enjoyed watching this (:

good to see other peoples point of views on situations

[VincentTheValentine]

This is definitely good stuff. :) Well done!

[Corjha]

"we'll get there." I agree. Thumbs up PBS. Much respect.

[Corjha]

JUSTIN HAS THE SAME SHIRT AS ME!!!!!!!!

[TheDellinger77]

Glad you made this movie. Youth need to be heard. But PLEASE don't say it's about the LGBT youth if you're going to leave out the Bi & the Trans. (video description)

[Blackwind041]

Who ever disliked this fck them it doesn't matter if you are gay you are still always like anyone else what if you were gay and being picked on how would you feel if you were those people. Think more about what their feeling and not what most people think.

[Katie Fish]

stood up for myself about half the time, because I had already gotten in trouble for rough-housing (playfully), I thought it was my job to let them behave that way, and that at least some of it had to have been my fault. I didn’t know it then, but as I’ve grown I’ve analyzed those years. My teacher must have felt uncomfortable towards me in some way, because she had turned even other teachers against me with her

[Katie Fish]

thing that springs to mind is the authority figures making it worse. When I was in the third grade I was very confused. The other kids excluded or teased me and a particular girl bullied me to a somewhat obsessive extent. I only

[Katie Fish]

2- I do not know how you feel; I am not certain many people even know how they-themselves feel. I do not even know my own sexual or romantic intentions/feelings, though I can guess some of it. I do, however, believe I can understand some of it both on a scientific and emotional level. One