In this weeks reading what i found most interesting and thought provoking was the struggle of young effeminate boys trying to fit into narrowly defined and close minded groups as well as the effects these groups have on the boys. In Eve Sedgwick's "How to Bring your Kids Up Gay" Eve points out that many young effeminate boys turn out gay because their masculinity is never validated in the eyes of their peers. On this point i agree with Sedgwick. I believe that if a child, who may truly be a heterosexual, is continuously called gay or ridiculed by his peers he will eventually begin to doubt himself. This doubt, while it may not necessarily lead to the child becoming homosexual, put the child in a awkward position. This is the position that Lee is put into. This position of the middle ground where one does not fit in with neither the straight community or the gay community's rigid definitions causes a child to feel anxious and lost. Once in that position, children who can not cope with their identity and feel like outcasts find themselves lost in hopelessness. Feelings of hopelessness and rejections cause children to act either in a way which truly does not represent them in order to fit in with a group or cause them to commit suicide and end their lives in order to avoid dealing with the social pressures.