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How Generation Z Is Making Sense of Stonewall—and Their Queer Selves

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Forty percent of LGBTQ youth have considered suicide in the last year, according to The Trevor Project. Yet young people are drawing strength from history, including Stonewall.

My search started on a Sunday night in 2006. We sat around our cedar kitchen table, my parents rehashing that night’s 60 Minutes report. CBS featured a study claiming having older

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