Readers advise student troubled by homophobes

In today's column, Talk to Us introduces wRAP up. We'll usewRAP up to give you opinions readers have expressed on both sides ofa question answered in previous columns. Today's wRAP up addressesreader responses to "Student Drowning in Homophobia."

From "Looking for a Better World" in Chicago: I can understandbeing discreet about your sexuality for the simple reason of peerpressure. I have known I was different since I was 5. At 10 Irealized what it was. In high school I never lived in denial, but infear of those who can't accept the unknown. I am now 22 years old.I choose who I tell about myself because many people aren't matureenough to handle it.

I am very …