''I came out to my parents, and they were OK.... Nobody stopped being my friend. Sometimes, when I'm around something, like 'That's so gay,' will slip out, but then they apologize. They try not to use that stuff because they know they'll offend me.''

Ramsey Santos, 16, president of the Gay-Straight Alliance at Manual Arts High School in South Los Angeles. The article notes a wide variety of comments from a discussion held in a 9th Grade classroom about this week's legalization of gay marriage. (LA Times)