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Consider joining:Today's Health - Wellness/ Exercise / Reflections:More support available for teens with sexuality questionsBy MARY SHEDDEN | The Tampa Tribune; November 18, 2010The hyper-emotional, sexually-charged world teenagers navigate can be a lonely place.Embarrassment, ignorance and unrealistic expectations can keep any teen from asking questions and getting healthy, direct answers from parents or other adults.
It's a confusing time for anyone discovering his or her sexual identity. However, teens who think they might be gay or bisexual do it within a society full of people unfamiliar with or hateful toward homosexual, bisexual or transgendered identities.
"Having the sex talk -- or the same-sex talk -- is difficult," says Andrew Schmidt, director of behavioral health at Metro Wellness and Community Centers. "It's hard to navigate and awkward" for the parent. But imagine what it's like for that teen."
The bullying and rejection some feel is profound and devastating: An estimated 30 percent of teens who commit suicide are gay, lesbian or bi-sexual, says Schmidt, whose center offers free counseling to teens with sexual identity questions.
The suicide rate is closer to 50 percent for teens who are transgendered or identify strongly with another gender.
Teen suicide is no small issue: 4,599 young people (ages 10 to 24) took their lives nationwide in 2004, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That was an 8 percent jump from the previous year.
Suicide prevention has long been a mission within the gay mental health community, but the issue recently went mainstream after several high-profile teen suicides and with the viral "It Gets Better" phenomenon created by the gay suicide prevention group called The Trevor Project.
In just a few months, more than 5,000 video messages, sometimes profoundly personal, have been posted on YouTube telling gay teens there's so much more to life than the bullies dominating their lives now. The voices include gay and lesbian adults from across the country, including celebrities and even an openly gay city councilman in western Texas. Heterosexuals also have voiced their support, including President Barack Obama.
Schmidt says the videos, many of which include long-term partners and gay parents and their children, offers teens healthy role models.
These unique and incredibly positive messages, however, aren't meant to take the place of the support from friends, teachers, school administrators and especially parents, Schmidt says.
"It's very important for parents to say that their child is accepted, no matter what," says Schmidt a licensed mental health counselor. "Parents show their disapproval all the time, and they don't realize it."
Metro Centers, with offices in Tampa and St. Petersburg, recently started offering up to six free counseling sessions to teens struggling with issues related to their sexuality. He emphasizes that the counseling isn't about "making" someone gay. It's about listening to a teen's questions.
"It's about having an open dialogue. It's not forcing someone to choose one or the other," he says. "It's not about picking a team."
The organization is trying to spread the word about the free counseling by contacting local gay-friendly churches, high school gay-straight alliances, and it recently made a presentation at Pasco-Hernando Community College. Information is available at www.metrotampabay.org.
Schmidt stresses that it isn't just gay teens who are being bullied or may have questions. Kids who don't fit into traditional roles -- girls who love sports, or boys who want to perform musical theater -- may be subjected to taunts or worse.
"It's about discovering yourself it's to process what they are going through," he says.
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By On Top Magazine Staff / November 20, 2010Willow Palin's homophobic slurs reflect on Sarah Palin's parenting -- or lack thereof -- talk show host Joy Behar has suggested.Willow, the 16-year-old daughter of the former Alaska governor, attacked a former classmate, named Tre, on Sunday.
"Sarah Palin's Alaska, is failing so hard right now," Tre wrote on Facebook during the premiere of the reality series.
Which prompted Willow to respond "Haha your so gay" and "Your such a faggot."
Willow and her sister, Bristol, offered a halfhearted apology, saying that they shouldn't have reacted to negative comments.
Behar criticized the incident with openly gay comedian Judy Gold, legendary talk show host Dick Cavett and In Touch Weekly Senior Editor Erika Vetrini on HLN's the Joy Behar Show.
"Their camp is saying she [Willow] doesn't use this language, this is new. I don't believe that, she's 16-years-old. This is the way she speaks," Vetrini said. "And when you hear that your child is speaking this way, it's your responsibility as a parent to inform that's not the proper way to talk."
Behar agreed, adding that her the use of the word faggot was "beneath contempt." (The video is embedded in the right panel of this page.)
Gay GOP group GOProud saw things differently, saying that such words are only homophobic "when it comes from the daughter of a conservative leader."
"Make no mistake; this is about destroying Sarah Palin by any means necessary," the group said in a statement.
While the politician turned conservative celebrity has previously criticized the use of racist and anti-disability comments, she has yet to speak out on her daughter's homophobic remarks.
"Every gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges."
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