At first, the cheerleaders getting ready for practice in a Los Angeles park seem like average teens as they sip Coke and pepper their sentences with "like." But then 17-year-old Larry Wood peels off his sweat pants to reveal a short black and red pleated skirt. A startled onlooker yells out, "Faggot!" Wood, who has a girlfriend, shrugs and tries an arabesque. "I just don't pay attention to it," he says. "It shows how much they know. It doesn't matter if you're gay or bi. We should all be treated equally." Moments later, Wood and the 11 other members of Radical Teen Cheer, who come from two inner-city high schools and several colleges, launch into their first routine: "We're teens, we're cute, we're radical to boot! We're angry, we're tough and we have had enough!"
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