0 
Gay Youth
| Length: | 40 min |
| Released: | 1992 |
Buy Online Streaming
This film explores the emotional strain placed on gay youth by intense feelings of isolation. Adolescence is typically a time of conformity when one needs to feel secure in a peer group. But lesbian and gay young people are acutely aware of being different and often have no one to talk to about these feelings. This isolation frequently leads to drug and alcohol abuse, violence, homelessness, and even suicide. According to one contemporary report on youth suicide, 30 percent of people between the ages of 15 and 24 who committed suicide were gay or lesbian.
This documentary has been designed to break the silence surrounding adolescent homosexuality. It contrasts the suicide of 20-year-old Bobby Griffith with the remarkable and courageous life of 17-year-old Gina Guttierrez, who is not afraid to meet homophobic attitudes straight on. Gay Youth shows that information, acceptance, and support can make enormous differences in the lives of young people.
This documentary has been designed to break the silence surrounding adolescent homosexuality. It contrasts the suicide of 20-year-old Bobby Griffith with the remarkable and courageous life of 17-year-old Gina Guttierrez, who is not afraid to meet homophobic attitudes straight on. Gay Youth shows that information, acceptance, and support can make enormous differences in the lives of young people.
"Gay Youth is at once entertaining and enlightening, with enough dramatic tension to fill a hundred non-fiction films."
–American Film Institute
–American Film Institute
