• Movie Review: Moonlight

  by Sedrick Sanchez

  Moonlight is about a character I’ve never seen in a movie—a gay thug who is big, bad, and scary, but who expresses his feelings. Instead of a monster, the movie shows a drug dealer as a human being. His name is Chiron, and he lives in a poor part of Miami, Florida.

• The Long Journey Home

  by Anonymous

  Names have been changed. When I was a 5-year-old boy in Mexico, I had a red sweater with a hood. I loved to put it on my head and pretend that it was my long, beautiful hair. I looked like a girl even with short hair.

• Straight Girl Stands Up for Gays

  by Kelly Colón

  In 5th grade, I had a friend who told me that she was bisexual. I had no idea what it was and I asked her. “It means I like boys, but I like girls too,” my 12-year-old friend told me. I had never heard of such a thing and I found it intriguing, since I had only seen straight couples in my life.