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The preoccupation of our society is definitely a contribution to the complex development and self conceptual problems for adolescents. In Linea Due’s book Joining The Tribe she gives us many examples of how when gay people realize they are different and discrim ....

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.... are misread. The author talks with a girl named Renee and she said it was hard for her because of the reputation that is required of high school girls. A good reputations depends on "walking a tight rope between being too loose and too rigid, but in order to get up on the tightrope at all, you have to be popular, fun, and heterosexual" pg. 88. She feels tormented that she has to hide her real self to be accepted in this society. She explains how her friends probably wouldn’t hang around with her if she came out. They would be worried that she was looking at them. Information is not taught regularly in class rooms about homosexuality. So ....