Hello everyone.

My name is Ivonne. I'm a Mexican girl living in the US and I'd like to congratulate you and thank you for your wonderful site. I found it after many disappointments looking for a corner of the web for my younger brother Miguel. He, at only 15, had the courage and determination to come out of the closet in Mexico, our country, and to our parents, knowing that maybe they would take it very badly. But he said he'd rather live honestly than pretend something he didn't feel.

All my life I've been in supportive of homosexuality. I've had best friends who were gay (both male and female) and I'm proud and happy to be their friend and support their struggle.

They've helped me be tolerant and adopt the philosophy of 'live and let live.' I think God wanted me to know gay people and have them in my life and love them because He knew that one of the people I love best in this world was going to be gay.

I admire my little brother greatly for his braveness, and also my parents who fortunately accepted their youngest son as he is (but obviously, there were problems too). My mother had to try especially hard, but little by little she's coming round to the idea. When I spoke to her I told her she wasn't to mis-treat him or shun him or throw him into the street. She said there was no way she'd do such a thing. The most important thing was that little Miguel was her son. He was the more important to her than what people would say. But seeing as we lived in Mexico, she was very much afraid of physical or emotional attacks on him. The thought that someone might try to hurt him made nervous wrecks of us all. In an ideal world it would not have to be like this.

I told my brother about your site and he's fascinated by the it, as much as I am, especially for the fact that it is the only one of its kind. I've been investigating and I've realised that there is no other website like this for gay adolescents.

As I say, I live in the US and in fact I work as a waitress in Boystown, a gay bar in Chicago. The gay parade goes right past where I work and all my friends come each year on the last Sunday in June. I always go to support my friends but this year my heart was full of pride for them and my little brother Miguel who I love so much and who we're all so proud that he's related to us. I want to congratulate you very much for your valuable and informative site and please keep up the good work. I thank God for my brother and for each one of you, the princes and princesses of planet Earth. Carry on with conviction, love and self-respect, and if someone doesn't like it that's his problem and he'll be the loser. Take very good care of yourselves because, in spite of what people say who are ignorant, prejudiced or blind to the Holy Spirit: GOD LOVES EVERYONE UNCONDITIONALLY.

Goodbye Henry. God preserve you, and keep up the good work!

mmir@prodigy.net