PioneerLocal.com – By Joanna Broder
“When you call someone a fag you’re using a slur even if you don’t think about it,” said 17-year-old Aliya de Grazia, a senior at Lincolnshire’s Adlai Stevenson High School and a self-described bisexual. “And I don’t understand why people don’t react with anger.”
Being gay “is not the big, bad bogey man that it used to be I guess, but it’s still not something that people really consider,” said a Deerfield High School junior who is a lesbian. Yet she asked not to be named, and follows her concerned father’s advice that she not tell too many people about her sexual orientation.