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By Connie Chung, 17, Gabrielino HS

When you say "That's so gay," it's wrong and it is a big deal.

I had just survived first period and a droning lecture about the American Revolution. As I stepped out of class I saw a guy with a look of disgust on his face laughing and shouting to his friend, "That's gay! You're so gay!"

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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. Langston Hughes, African-American poet, writer, lecturer and playwright. Hughes achieved fame during the period known as the Harlem Renaissance and enjoyed a long and distinguished career that spanned several decades.

Oral sex, also known as a blow job, eating out, going down on, giving head, is more official named "fellatio" for the guy and "cunnilingus for the girl. Oral sex is exactly what it implies; it's the pleasures of sex given orally, where one partner orally pleasures the other partner's genitals. When both partners are performing oral sex on one another at the same time it's called '69'.

Some misconceptions of earlier generations was that only guys were supposed to receive oral pleasure, but now, as popular shows like "Sex and the City" have taught us, oral sex is give and take.

Margarita Loeza-Romo says she still remembers the Los Angeles-based Venice Family Clinic as the place that "helped me walk." When she was born, Margarita came out of the womb feet first, which caused a dislocated hip that would require several surgeries and long recoveries, at one point landing her in a cast that covered her from waist to ankles. But because her mother, a housekeeper, and father, a factory worker, didn't have health insurance, it was only through the doctors at the free clinic that she was able to receive the treatment she so desperately needed.