Adam, Adina and Richard are three Canadian gay youth who attend a special school program for gay youth in Toronto. This | dG1fcnhiN0tuZFBVLXc
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00:00In Toronto, a June ritual unfolds.
00:07Welcome to the Red Hot Pride Prom!
00:14The queer high school prom.
00:16Off limits for everyone else.
00:20For three lives that briefly intertwine here,
00:23this is their story.
00:26Idina, two words why you want to be king.
00:29One word, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
00:35As the rabbi's daughter,
00:36they expected me to be the same as everyone else.
00:39Not just to be one of the kids,
00:41but to be the model child at the school
00:43and to conform to exactly what the school wanted.
00:46And I did the exact opposite.
00:50I never thought about it.
00:51It was never something that I sat at home and thought,
00:53oh, you're gay.
00:55It didn't happen until probably when I was 15, 16, you know?
01:01But what hurt is that people had already made my choice
01:04before I could even come out.
01:06to be the same as myself.
01:12My mom doesn't like gay people at all.
01:14I know she's my mom and I love her and stuff like that,
01:16but she's another person who I just look at
01:18that makes so much of my remarks and just think,
01:21okay, you know what, I'm at a higher level than that.
01:23Just move on to the left.
01:36Available now on iTunes.