Trista wears her dark hair short, her jeans bell-bottomed. Her friends mean the world to her, as do playing her keyboard and writing poetry. She joined the ROTC this year, and is thinking about joining the Air Force. When she talks about her family, she is confident and direct. She has never hidden her father's sexual orientation.
Boys have the hardest time with it.
One boy has told her repeatedly that she is going to hell because of her father. I'm like, 'He's an idiot. But sometimes it has been hard to ignore her peers. In middle school, a group of kids teased her, and often it was about her gay father. They accused her of being a lesbian and sometimes pretended to spit at her.