Ellenpoly, over the years I have had many personal dealings (through volunteer work with streetkids and in the schools) with homosexual and bisexual kids and their parents, as well as homosexual and bisexual adults. I'm sorry to say that very few of these are what I consider to be either physically, socially or emotionally "healthy" or "coping quite well".

In Canada, a whopping 39% of teenage males who commit suicide are either homosexual or bisexual, according to stats I was reading yesterday.

I'm glad the people you know are doing so much better, and here's hoping it continues to be so!

If people don't care for having their behaviors or choices constrained by the "laws" of nature, they can certainly use the latest scientific technology to bypass those "laws" these days. However, there's very often an unforeseen and heavy price to be paid for that ... and as usual, it's the weakest and most powerless members of society who pay that price.

daylia