Tom Fudge: Growing up gay has been difficult and remains difficult. Parents assume their kids will develop heterosexual orientation and that's what the kids expect as well. When it turns out not to the be the case, it's almost always difficult for the kids and for the parents. How difficult depends on how the family and their community view homosexualit
Stories of coming out are very diverse. Some stories are heartwarming, some are utterly traumatic. Joining me now is Mitchell Gold. He's the editor of a new book that's a collection of coming-out stories.
Some of the stories are told by some very well-known gay people, like Barney Frank, who's now at the center of the financial bailout story we just talked about. The forward to Gold's book was written by tennis star Martina Navratilova. The book is called Crisis: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing up Gay in America.