Chapter 9: Ticket to a queer planet? Communication issues affecting young lesbian and gay people.

Chapter 9 of the book "Talking Adolescence" is presented. The chapter highlights the lack of communication experienced by young GLBT people as well as the difficulty of naming sexual identities and living within their definitions. It states that the discovery of GLBT communities, the chance to join in those communities and a sense of GLBT history help support and sustain GLBT identities. It concludes that communication issues for GLBT people are complex and constrained through homophobia.