Carey Mulligan and Marcus Mumford are reportedly engaged.The Never Let Me Go actress was showing off her engagement ring last weekend, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

"Carey looked like the cat who had got the cream. She was wearing a beautiful ring and didn’t seem to mind who saw it," said a source.

"They were stuck to each other like glue. She was doing most of the talking and he was hanging on her every word," he added.

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Chilean President Sebastian Pinera, facing protests in recent weeks, has made major changes to his cabinet.

It was Mr Pinera's second reshuffle in recent months.

The president's popularity peaked after the rescue of the 33 miners in October but his approval ratings have dropped to some 30% amid simmering unrest.

Students have been protesting to demand changes to the education system, while last week copper miners staged a one-day strike over restructuring plans.

President Pinera announced eight changes to his cabinet, including at the economy, energy and justice ministries.

"Our institutions, our leadership, are being tested by citizens who are more empowered, who are demanding greater participation and, above all, greater equality," said President Pinera as he swore in his new team.

Among the main names is Laurence Golborne, who as mining minister had a highly visible role during the miners' rescue.

He goes to the Public Works Ministry, a department which has assumed greater prominence, especially after last year's major earthquake.

His successor as minister of mines is Hernan de Solminihac.

President Pinera said major investment would be made in the mining sector and he denied there were any plans to privatise the state-run copper company Codelco.

"Codelco is going to remain in state hands, belonging to the Chilean people, but we also want it to be modern, efficient and fully capable of realising its potential," Mr Pinera said.

Felipe Bulnes, the former justice minister, moves to education – a key post as students continue to press for reforms, including lower university fees.

Thousands have taken to the streets of Santiago and other main cities, with some protests turning violent.

Mr Pinera took office last March, the country's first conservative leader for 20 years.

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By GWENDOLYN BOUNDS

Anita and Bob Dethlefs wanted the new Portland, Ore. home they were building to really let the sunshine in. So, the couple installed 2,700 square feet of Marvin windows—about $300,000 worth—on nearly every wall of the property.

Giant spans of glass,once seen mainly in commercial construction, are now more common in residential homes. Wendy Bounds explains how technology has enabled glass makers to make these more affordable, safe (if tempered) and energy efficient.

And then they put up 12 security cameras.

“We’re getting about as much light as you can in the Northwest but with so many windows, safety was the No. 1 concern for me as a mommy with kids running around the house,” says 43-year-old Ms. Dethlefs, who has five children. Her husband started a leadership conference business, Evanta Inc., in 2003 and later sold it. Their 13,000-square-foot, $5 million Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired home even has a glass front door, letting visitors on the front stoop see through the family’s living room out to Mount Hood.

Forget about a room with a view. Today, homeowners want views from every room. As large expanses of glass have become architecturally acceptable for modern and traditional homes, new technology is making living in a fishbowl more practical—albeit sometimes challenging.

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Anita and Bob Dethlefs moved into their new Portland 13,000-square-foot home in November. The Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired home has about $300,000 worth of windows to let in as much light as possible and help with the ‘gray sky’ malaise Ms. Dethlefs says she gets living in the Pacific Northwest.

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Homeowners’ desire for more open floor plans with combined kitchen and living-room spaces has paved the way structurally for bigger spreads of glass. A growing appetite for more energy-efficient windows and associated tax incentives and rebates have also supported the trend.

“The open floor plan is predominant in almost everyone’s design now,” says builder Tim Wilkinson of Great Falls, Mont. “They want more light and bigger windows to take advantage of views.”

Today, thanks to technological advances, nearly all windows installed in new homes have special, invisible coatings that block heat and keep ultraviolet rays from fading furniture. Many also use double or triple-panes with argon or krypton gas sandwiched in between, which helps insulate in cold climates. Now standard on Andersen Windows glass: a titanium dioxide coating the company says sheds dirt and virtually eliminates water spots. Some glass makers are even marketing windows for residences that can tint and untint with the push of a button.

And for those put off by the prospect of raising and lowering so many blinds, companies such as Lutron Electronics sell window shades that can be controlled with an iPhone app.

“Across the board, people want more light,” says Mike Rogers, senior vice president of GreenHomes America Inc., a company specializing in energy-efficient home renovations, which has been incorporating more glass in its projects.

Beyond privacy and safety—Ms. Dethlefs’s chief worries—there are maintenance issues, such as how to keep so much glass spotless. (The couple pay $850 to $950 for professional cleaning at least three times a year.) And despite technological improvements, glass still doesn’t typically insulate as well as a wall packed with insulation.

Then there is the bird problem: Anywhere from 100 million to 1 billion are killed in window collisions every year, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

While manufacturers such as Andersen Corp. and Marvin Windows and Doors say overall window sales have slowed amid a sluggish new-house market, the companies say they are seeing more and larger windows going into new homes.

In modern homes, “they are filling space between floor and ceiling with as much glass as they can,” says Jay Sandgren, an architectural representative for Andersen. He says builders are being “a lot smarter” about positioning a home and the roof overhang to capture the most sunlight in winter and to block much of the heat from the sun in summer.

Building with glass isn’t cheap. Mr. Wilkinson the Montana builder estimates the price is about double the cost of installing regular walls packed with insulation. His own 4,800-square-foot home that he completed last year has $85,000 worth of Andersen glass, giving him a 240-degree view of three mountain ranges and the Missouri River. Even the deck railings are glass panels.

Tempered safety glass is installed according to local building codes in areas of homes where breakage might be of particular concern, such as windows and doors close to the floor or near a stairway or landing. Glass can sometimes attract vandals in the construction phase, a headache for builders, Mr. Wilkinson says. But breakage for homeowners “is rarely a problem,” he says, although he cautions that people mowing the lawn should look out for rocks that the mower can kick out to crack a pane.

Architect Thomas Roszak took the fishbowl aesthetic to the extreme in his own Northfield, Ill. home, which features commercial curtain-wall glass around the entire building.The walls are constructed from two argon-filled glass panes covered with what’s called low-emissivity, or “low-e,” metallic coating to block heat flow through the window, keeping the home cooler in the summer and warmer in winter.

With little traditional wall space, art is suspended in front of windows from a floor-to-ceiling, museum-type wire hanging system, Mr. Roszak says. For privacy, he planted trees around his one-acre property and installed $60,000 worth of electronically operated blinds.

One low point of glass-house design: The day his 8-year-old son spied a dead bird that had hit home’s glass siding, likely mistaking the trees’ reflection for safe habitat. “He said, ‘Daddy, I don’t think that bird is sleeping, I think it’s broken,’” Mr. Roszak says.

Glass homeowners must be mindful of clutter, since the view goes both ways. When Beata and Brad Peters built their 3,900-square-foot brick home in Hawthorn Woods, Ill., they incorporated large panels of glass symmetrically throughout. While most windows have wood blinds, the family tends to leave them open for aesthetics.

“I don’t put a lot of stuff in front of the windows,” Ms. Peters says. In the kitchen, appliances like toasters get packed along a wall with no glass.

Window-treatment companies are pushing to make shade operation less of a chore. Rotterdam-based Hunter Douglas this spring added a “Solar Energy Sensor” that raises and lowers blinds based on the amount of sun detected. Despite the slump in the housing market, the company’s North American sales rose almost 5% last year. An electronically controlled Lutron shade sells for about $900 more than manual ones and can be controlled via remote control or an app for Apple Inc. or Android devices.

Some glass companies now make windows that reduce the need for blinds altogether. One is Sage Electrochromics Inc. of Faribault, Minn., whose product consists of clear panes that morph to a grayish-blue tint when a user flips a switch to send a low-voltage current across the window. The tint reduces glare and heat but not visibility. Sage began selling the glass for residential applications around 2005, though they are typically found in high-end homes due to cost. An installed window costs between one-and-a-half to two times as much as one with typical low-e glass.

“If you’re on the West Coast facing the ocean when the sun is beating on the glass, what people do is pull their blinds and shades to block the glare,” says Helen Sanders, Sage’s vice president of technical business development. “What that means is you’ve just lost your view you paid a huge amount of money for.”

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(CNN) — Elaine Farstad got antsy as she waited for her doctor, who was late for her scheduled appointment. Then she got downright impatient. Then, as nearly two hours passed, she got mad. Then she came up with an idea.

"I decided to bill the doctor," she says. "If you waste my time, you’ve bought my time."

When Farstad returned home, she figured out her hourly wage working as an IT specialist at Boeing in Everett, Washington. She doubled it for the two hours she’d spent in the waiting room, and mailed the invoice to her doctor.

"It’s ludicrous — why would I wait for free?" says Farstad, who is now an engineering graduate student at North Carolina State University. "Like we all learned in kindergarten, it’s about respecting each other."

In years gone by, doctors would likely have scoffed at the suggestion they reimburse patients for time spent waiting. But Farstad’s doctor sent her a check for $100, the full amount she requested, and some tardy doctors tell CNN they give patients money (or a gift) before the patient even asks.

"I love this!" says Dave deBronkart, co-chair of the Society for Participatory Medicine. "It’s magnificent that some physicians are valuing patients’ time. It’s a commitment to designing a practice that truly serves patients."

Gifts from late doctors

The average wait time at doctors’ offices in the United States is 24 minutes, according to a report released in 2010 by Press Ganey, a group that researches health care performance.

When he keeps patients waiting more than 15 minutes, Dr. Timothy Malia, a primary care physician in Fairport, New York, hands them a $5 bill. If patients in Eugene, Oregon, wait more than 10 minutes to see Dr. Pamela Wible, they receive a handmade soap or a bottle of lotion. When Dr. Cyrus Peikari, an internist in Dallas, recently had to miss a day of work because of a family emergency, he gave the patients whose appointments he canceled $50 at their next appointment.

One patient didn’t want to take the check, but Peikari insisted. "I suggested to him, ‘Your time is just as valuable, if not more so, than mine.’ "

Not all doctors are so sympathetic. Farstad tells about another appointment. It was for 8 a.m. with her gynecologist, and she had to leave at 8:40 a.m. when the doctor still wasn’t there. In the parking lot, she ran into the doctor, who was just getting out of her car.

"The doctor told me she had a little one and she was never in the office until ten to nine," she remembers. "I asked her why she scheduled appointments at 8 a.m., and she said to give the patients time to do paperwork. I was so mad I was shaking. I never went back to her."

What to do when your doctor keeps you waiting

Keep in mind that sometimes a situation is out of a doctor’s control. For example, some doctors are instructed by their bosses to book patients at 15 minute increments to make more money, which means if one patient needs more time, the patients later in the day will get delayed.

If that’s the case, and the doctor is perpetually late and you don’t like waiting, you can try one of these approaches.

1. Send your doctor a bill

Here’s an example of an invoice Farstad sent to a tardy physician. She says over the years she has billed six doctors who were more than 30 minutes late, and half have paid.

2. Find an on-time doctor

This map shows physicians who adhere to the tenets of the Ideal Medical Practices Organization, which encourages its doctors to be on time.

3. Schedule smartly

For example, try booking the first appointment after lunch. For more scheduling tips, read the previous Empowered Patient column: Waiting for the doctor… and waiting and waiting.

4. Mention the doctors in this article to your own doctor

Doctors might pay up pre-emptively if they hear their colleagues are doing the same, deBronkart says.

5. Blog about your doctor’s lateness

DeBronkart, who blogs as "E-Patient Dave," wrote about his experience waiting 45 minutes to get an X-ray. He says the head of the radiology practice then called him and acknowledged they needed to change the way they scheduled patients.

CNN’s Sabriya Rice and Lida Alikhani contributed to this report.

(CNN) — You might not realize it, but your doctor could be complaining about you online.

He or she isn’t using your name, of course, but rather descriptions such as "The Angry Patient" or "The Patient Who Knows Too Much."

It’s part of a physician-to-physician educational presentation titled "Managing the Difficult Patient" on QuantiaMD, which has drawn thousands of views from doctors and a good bit of ire from patients. (You must register to view, but it’s free.)

"If you look at their videos, they seem to want to get rid of these patients," says Sherry Reynolds, who tweeted about the "startling views" expressed in the videos.

"Honestly, I was a little shocked when I saw it," adds Amy Tenderich, founder of the popular website DiabetesMine.com. "It was upsetting to see them take such a defensive stand."

"The Patient Who Knows Too Much"

In particular, the segment "The Patient Who Knows Too Much" has angered patient advocates such as Reynolds and Tenderich. In it, a fictitious patient named "Will," represented by a nerdy looking avatar holding a laptop computer, deluges his doctor with information about "one disease or another" that he’s learned online about

In the presentation, three doctors comment on the challenges Will poses.

"They consider themselves an expert yet often their true medical knowledge is quite limited," says Dr. Joseph Scherger, vice president for primary care at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California, who says patients like Will are "indiscriminate" about the material they read online.

"Patients who present their expertise as telling you how to practice medicine are implicitly discounting your expertise," adds Leonard Haas, a psychologist at University of Utah School of Medicine.

"Sometimes these patients are very overweight. They’re out of shape," Scherger adds. "They’re on the Internet all the time."

Difficult — but not dead

Reynolds and Tenderich say while doctors may find so-called "Internet patients" annoying, online information has saved many.

"If my mother hadn’t been a ‘difficult patient,’ she’d be dead right now," says Reynolds, adding that her mother’s breast cancer doctor didn’t sufficiently check her lymph nodes after performing a lumpectomy.

After doing research online, Reynolds decided to take her mother to another doctor, who found cancer in some of the nodes and removed them. Twelve years later, she’s still alive.

Tenderich remembers how she broke out in hives on her neck, face and hands seven weeks after learning she had diabetes. A dermatologist told her the hives were probably a result of being stressed about the diagnosis, but patients online told her some diabetics develop a wheat allergy. Tenderich then went to an allergist, who confirmed the diagnosis.

"Only through talking to patients in the community did I learn the truth," Tenderich says.

"The title ‘The Patient Who Knows Too Much’ is condescending," she says. "It’s unfortunate these providers are not recognizing their patients as intelligent people and showing a little more respect."

Jill Raleigh, executive director of the LAM Foundation, a group for patients with a rare lung disease, also took issue with the QuantiaMD presentation.

"Oftentimes our patients’ physicians know very little, if anything, about LAM," Raleigh says. "Many of the patients actually educate their doctors on the latest research and sometimes even the basics of the disease."

An unfortunate title

Mary Modahl, chief communications officer with QuantiaMD, says her company now realizes "The Patient Who Knows Too Much" is "a very poor title."

"Certainly a patient can never know too much," she says. "In every way we’re supportive of doctors meeting their patients’ need for care."

She added that the purpose of the segment was to teach doctors to deal with patients with a certain psychiatric disorder.

"Will" calls or visits the doctor every other week with a whole host of complaints, such as headache, palpitations, diarrhea and fatigue, and has sought the help of numerous specialists, all of whom believe he has panic disorder.

But patient advocates told CNN they didn’t interpret the video that way. Instead of being narrowly focused on a patient with a mental illness, the advocates said the doctors’ comments felt like a wholesale criticism of patients who do health research on the Internet.

The doctors in the QuantiaMD presentation tell doctors to listen to patients like Will, give them reading assignments from credible sources and encourage them to have a healthy lifestyle.

In interviews with CNN, the doctors say patients who do online research sometimes take up precious time during an appointment asking irrelevant questions.

"They think they have dengue fever or mad cow disease, and it takes an extra five, 10 or 15 minutes to explain to them why they don’t," says Haas, who teaches University of Utah medical students how to communicate with patients. He added that getting information from other patients online is dangerous because "you don’t know who these people are."

The doctors were quick to point out, however, they don’t want to discourage patients from educating themselves.

"To me the Internet is the greatest revolution that ever happened to human civilization," Scherger says.

"We want to empower patients. We want these individuals to make medicine kinder and safer," adds Dr. Gerald Hickson, director of the Center for Patient and Professional Advocacy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

"I can understand how some patient advocates could be offended, but that was not my intent," Hickson said. "My intent was to focus on the doctor who may not appreciate the empowered patient, and I want to remind my colleagues we have a duty to meet the patient where they are."

Bringing online information to your doctor

Patient advocates and doctors agree there are good ways and bad ways to share online information with your doctor. Some tips for presenting the information effectively:

– Don’t be afraid to be a "bad" patient. Patients who press their doctors sometimes get the best results

– Share Internet information with your doctor wisely. Don’t walk in with a stack of printouts that your doctor won’t have time to read during the appointment. Instead, e-mail the information to your doctor before the appointment or boil the information down to a few points.

– Don’t be a cyberchondriac. Every headache isn’t a brain tumor.

The Empowered Patient has more information about the best ways to communicate online information with your doctor, as does Trisha Torrey, About.com’s patient-empowerment expert.

CNN’s Sabriya Rice and Lida Alikhani contributed to this report.

(CNN) — "Mama thinks you’re gay," Tempest Cartwright’s younger sister told her as they walked to Wendy’s one day.

"That’s … ’cause I am," Tempest, who was 15 at that time, told her. And with that admission, relief and joy flooded over Tempest. She’d spent much of her life hiding how she felt about girls; she’d made sure to have a boyfriend whenever she could, but secretly would inevitably have a crush on his mother.

Eventually she told her father about her sexuality, and then her mother. Both support her fully. "I felt like I was really me for the first time ever," she recalls.

But once word got around in school, Tempest’s peers broke the spell of happiness.

"I lost a lot of my friends," including her ex-boyfriend, who was also her bandmate. People at church stopped talking to her; she started hearing the word "faggot" in the hallways at school.

"I had a while that I went through a big phase of depression about it," said Tempest, now 17. "I tried to keep myself around the people I knew loved me. I just tried to focus out all the negative."

With more and more high schoolers like Tempest speaking out about the mistreatment they face because of their sexuality, and reports of bullying and harassment becoming more commonplace, the federal government is paying more attention to the issue.

Siblings say gay brother ‘broken’ by experimental therapy

The government’s focus on it is an important step forward in the long, tortured road of gaining equality for young people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered or questioning, although there is still much work to be done.

Two pieces of legislation in Congress, the Safe Schools Improvement Act and the Student Nondiscrimination Act, give the sense that "they’re really pushing to make this a priority," says Liz Owen, director of communications at PFLAG National (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays).

At the first Federal LGBT Youth Summit that took place in Washington this week, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius spoke about the government’s efforts to curb bullying of these students, such as her department’s LGBT Coordinating Committee; a new work group to address the needs of LGBT youth and their families; and the website StopBullying.gov.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also just released the largest government report to date on the topic of lesbian, gay and bisexual youth and risky health behaviors. It found that these teens are more likely to engage in substance use, behaviors related to attempted suicide or that contributed to violence, among other things.

Study authors say lack of acceptance from friends and family is the likely culprit. Discrimination, disapproval from families and social rejection at school can all contribute to these outcomes, said Laura Kann of the CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health, and lead author of the report.

This corroborates what many smaller studies have found, including research from the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). The group’s analysis found that LGBT students are less likely to want to continue education beyond high school if they are experiencing victimization.

A rocky road to acceptance

The growing federal interest in researching the issue of LGBT discrimination in schools is a "very good sign, but I think it’s because we’ve had to go to such extremes of suicide and other traumas before they finally take this population seriously," says Chris Kraft, co-director of Clinical Services at the Sexual Behaviors Consultation Unit at Johns Hopkins University.

It was violence that made gay activism explode in the United States: The Stonewall riots of 1969, when a police raid at a bar in New York spurred gays to fight back. The event empowered people who weren’t into exclusively dating members of the opposite sex to be more open about their identity.

But that didn’t stop the discrimination, stigma or physical assaults.

In 1998, Matthew Shepard, a gay teenager, died after being kidnapped and severely beaten in Wyoming. President Barack Obama named a 2009 expanded federal hate crimes law after Shepard and James Byrd Jr., a black man who was chained behind a pickup and dragged to death in Texas.

Another death that sparked outrage and united LGBT activists was that of Lawrence "Larry" King in 2008. The boy, 15, was shot by another student at E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard, California.

Suicides have also drawn attention to the gravity of the issue. Tyler Clementi, a student at Rutgers University, took his own life after two students allegedly videotaped a same-sex sexual encounter and streamed it online. His family agreed to allow Clementi’s name to be used in proposed federal anti-harassment legislation.

The Trevor Project was founded in 1998 in response to the need for help for depressed young people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered or questioning. It began with the creators of the short film "Trevor," about gay 13-year-old boy who attempts to take his own life.

And columnist Dan Savage started the It Gets Better Project in 2010 to show young people that school may be hard, but life does bring happiness in spite of the hardships of social rejection.

Heather Storm James, Tempest’s mother, remembers reading about the high incidence of suicide among LGBT youth when Tempest showed signs of depression after being rejected by some of her peers and family members.

"It scared me to death. I really pushed myself to talk to her and make her open up and share her feelings because I didn’t want her to become depressed to the point that she would feel like she needed to take her own life, or she was so rejected that nobody loved her," James said.

"My biggest advice to anyone whose child has come out to them is to, first of all, not think so much about your own feelings," she added. "… Not to just automatically reject them, because they really need our acceptance as parents."

TV brings role models

There have also been positive forces in bringing LGBT acceptance issues to the forefront.

MTV’s "The Real World: San Francisco" had an HIV-positive cast member, Pedro Zamora, back in the early ’90s. He died in 1994. "My So-Called Life" had prominent gay character "Rickie" Vasquez, who had to deal with his sexuality on the show. NBC’s comedy "Will & Grace," which premiered in 1998, is another cultural milestone.

Ellen Degeneres has made significant strides in bringing LGBT issues out in the open, and being a positive role model for young people. She came out on her ABC sitcom "Ellen" and in Time magazine in 1997, and she became active in the Trevor Project.

These days, the show "Glee" is giving significant time to exploring issues of gay bullying and acceptance in high school. In a recent episode, character Kurt Hummel broke down in tears after being elected prom queen by unsympathetic classmates, but then accepted the honor with dignity.

"There’s been momentary stepping back, but ultimately I think we are moving forward as a society," said Daryl Presgraves, communications director at GLSEN.

Substance abuse

The CDC report found that lesbian, gay and bisexual teens have a higher likelihood of using alcohol and drugs. This is no surprise to Brendon O’Rourke, 27, of Los Angeles, California.

O’Rourke remembers getting picked on in junior high and high school even before he came out. Gym class would be full of taunts like "girly-man" and other verbal attacks.

"Lack of confidence, being different and being gay puts a bull’s-eye on you," he said. "They’re going to go after the person that’s already kind of down on themselves, it’s just an easy target."

He began drinking right before prom; he liked that it made him feel comfortable and desirable. In college, he arranged his class schedule so that he wouldn’t have to go anywhere in the mornings, so that he could drink into the night. Sometimes during night classes, he’d replace half of a Snapple bottle with vodka. In high school he didn’t have friends; in later years, they’d come and go.

"You’re left with yourself and in your head, and drinking or taking other substances will completely relieve that pain temporarily and help you forget about that, but then there’s a time when that stops working," he said.

His drinking problem led him to cocaine, and then to crystal meth. It took him until age 25 to sober up completely, after being arrested and going into rehab.

"Turning to drugs and alcohol never solves the problem. It might hide feelings, and take away pain, but it never fixes the problem," said O’Rourke, who now works on the technical side of Treatment4Addiction.com. "Finding someone to talk to and work through the problems that you’re having is the healthiest solution."

Finding a place

Craig Cassey, 19, who’s openly gay and just graduated from high school, has known people who have sought alcohol as a means of coping because of the added stress. A cross country and track athlete, Cassey encourages teens looking for an outlet to seek activities such as sports teams as a means of finding acceptance.

Tempest, who loves art and puts rainbow colors in her Mohawk-styled hair, thought she’d found a new school group where she’d fit in about a month and a half ago — a Christian club at her school that her girlfriend’s friends had joined. Once they found out about that she and her girlfriend were dating, the meetings suddenly turned to the topic of homosexuality — specifically, that Tempest was going to hell.

"They made my girlfriend cry in front of everybody," she said.

Still, Tempest continues her work as an advocate. She is active in many national organizations, including GLSEN, the Trevor Project and Openarms Youth Project. The Gay Straight Alliance at her school, of which she is the president, works with a local equality center.

LGBT-related posters get torn down a lot in Tempest’s area, so she and fellow advocates spend a lot of time putting them back up.

"After a while either they’ll get tired of tearing it down, or it’ll show them that we’re not stopping just because you’re going to hate," she said.

If you’re a lesbian, gay, bisexual or questioning young person in trouble, call the Trevor Project crisis line at 866-4-U-TREVOR.