It was very rarely anything approaching homophobia on their parts. I think it had more to do with confusion about how you were dealing with everything. Some of the battles you had to fight with yourself weren't easy things to watch, particularly for a peer group that doesn't come into contact with much of that stuff.
As to 'Openly Bi-Girl', you know better than anyone the pressures of Catholic sexuality guilt. Sometimes we all need a scapegoat/get-out-of-jail-free card, and you put yourself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Bad luck, possibly poor planning, but ultimately not cometing to be guilty about.
I would query that they "very rarely had to come into contact with that stuff", and the fact that much of it was starting then, rather than there all along. That school does not handle mental health well, and I also query what you mean by "their parts" some of the year were either homophobic, or picked up on it as a convenient thing (see treatment of Dana). Also the fact that the school wasn't okay with anything but very brazen/confident queerness. I still feel weird about not being that type of person til much later.
I know I inflicted my issues and craziness on everyone. I also made efforts not to do so.
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As to 'Openly Bi-Girl', you know better than anyone the pressures of Catholic sexuality guilt. Sometimes we all need a scapegoat/get-out-of-jail-free card, and you put yourself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Bad luck, possibly poor planning, but ultimately not cometing to be guilty about.
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I know I inflicted my issues and craziness on everyone. I also made efforts not to do so.