equality

How do we tell the LGBT youth that we are working with that they can grow up to be anyone they want? They can't be. Don't ask don't tell in the military, inability to conduct a normal teen romance without being looked at as some kind of deviant...The simple act of choosing a mate and growing a life together. "No, I'm sorry, not for you- you are gay". Ridiculous and unacceptable in 2009.