Mon Oct 04, 2004

o) Articles by other people

"Young and gay in real America: Word is born"

Part four of a four part series on being young and gay in America today by Anne Hull, published in the Washington Post on October 4th, 2004.

Five hundred students are packed into the old-timey auditorium at West Side High School. A piano begins, then a jazz drum. Onstage, in shadows, two figures sit at a table with their backs to the audience. The crowd beckons them, Newark-style, calling and pleading, daring and challenging. Come on, now. Bring it.

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