Summary: <p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Back in 1996, we started giving tape recorders to teenagers to report on their own lives for NPR. That project turned into the Teenage Diaries series. The very first story came from</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"> Amanda Brand, a feisty, hilarious girl from Queens who was figuring out what it means to be gay...and how to explain it to her Catholic parents.</span></span></p>
