that prompted me and my colleague raphael diaz to start this at san francisco state preep search, education and policy research project to prevent risk and promote well-being for lgbt adolescents and adults. >> and you mentioned young people are coming out an an earlier age. i know it's probably easier here on the west coast, perhaps, than other parts of the country? >> they're actually coming out, because the information age that you're involved in on a daily basis has blown the closet door off its hinges. there's access to information not only in the media, online, in television shows, in popular culture, in public policy, years ago peel didn't know what -- people didn't know what being lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender meant. what's important for so many people to understand is that sexual orientation is mostly about connectedness and the deep need that human beings have for intimate connection with others. only a small part of it is related to sex and so in terms of child development, young people today can know that they're gay or bisexual at very young age, younger than even 12 o