Coming Out in Middle School
By BENOIT DENIZET-LEWIS
Published: September 23, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/magazine/27out-t.html?_r=1Austin didn't know what to wear to his first gay dance last spring. It was bad enough that the gangly 13-year-old from Sand Springs, Okla., had to go without his boyfriend at the time, a 14-year-old star athlete at another middle school, but there were also laundry issues. "I don't have any clean clothes!" he complained to me by text message, his favored method of communication.
