Hi callwaiting - Thank you for the compliment. I really do want to listen and learn and appreciate it when people who see things differently will talk with me, especially around this topic. So many many thanks to you. It is interesting to hear your sister's experience because I went to a women's college, too, though I was there in the 1980s. I remember that people were doing a lot of experimenting on our campus and with the men's and coed campuses all around and, in the end, my hit is that my classmates pretty much settled into straight or gay relationships in proportions similar to society at large. 

I agree that the changing culture has resulted in more kids identifying as gay. The distinction I would make is that, today, more gay youth are identifying *publicly* as gay because it is safe now (while another group of youths are simply experimenting sexually. I think those are two different groups).  

Thanks for the dialogue, callwaiting.