TYLER BROSTROM, 18, IDAHO USA
For most people in the LGBTQIA community, the difficult part of coming out is telling your parents. It’s typically a whole lot of nervous fumbling, clammy hands, tears and hoping against hope that you won’t be rejected or kicked out or beaten or killed or shot into space in a small capsule adorned with a rainbow flag. Sometimes, horrible things do happen. But more probably, they’ll ‘love us all the same’, even if they don’t quite understand, and then go back to watching television, albeit with a lot of silent questions.