On the one hand I'm glad there's a conference like this for gay youth to talk about their experiences with bullying and harassment in school. On the other I'm frustrated that there's still a need for a conference like this. Maybe that's because of what I went through growing up as a skinny, effeminate, nonathletic, black gay boy in the south, in the 80s, during the Reagan era. (Yeah.I might still have a few scars from that.)

But what's truly disturbing are the people who says that an anti-bullying conference "affirms" the "gay lifestyle," and particularly the woman who said "There's something called therapy. A person can change if they want to, and they should be encouraged to change if they can."

And if they can't or won't? Do they deserved to be harassed? Well, I remember NARTH suggested that it might do them some good.

Interesting, Terrance. Thanks for sharing.

Sparks is truly scary. SHE should be encouraged to change -- her f'**d up beliefs.