Ft. Gay High School - Fd Alumni, Yearbooks & Rnn Plans

Contents:

• FT. GAY HIGH SCHOOL:PAST AND UPG RNNS
• FT. GAY HIGH SCHOOL
• 'I FELT LIKE CRYG': ANTI-GAY MENCEMENT SPEECH AT OH HIGH SCHOOL SPARKS OUTRAGE

FT. GAY HIGH SCHOOL:PAST AND UPG RNNS

After beg outed by my girliend and sulted my classmat and, I still dared to attend my high school rnn – and was surprised by their reactn when I me out as gay.

As a gay man of a certa age, I’ve seen the whole ncept of Pri go through a huge metamorposis sce I first me out as a terrified, 19-year-old llege stunt. At the time, I had a girliend who was gettg trated wh our once-a-month sex life, and when she disvered that “craig” om my theater arts class was actually a ltle more than jt my iend, she retaliated by tellg my born-aga Christian mother that I was gay. “I don’t know what to tell you, but maybe God gave you a gay son for reason, ” I said.

Tthfully, I never felt like there was anythg wrong wh beg gay.

FT. GAY HIGH SCHOOL

The real problem for gay stunts me when we were nonted wh “haters” as we’ve e to ll them — straight guys who felt like your existence somehow posed a threat to theirs.

We overturned meang anti-gay ordanc, ma powerful alli and heroilly rose to the ocsn when the AIDS crisis btally vastated our ranks.

Standg at the punch bowl, I stck up a nversatn wh Marty, who’d been my Algebra II class sophomore year. “I’m gay.

'I FELT LIKE CRYG': ANTI-GAY MENCEMENT SPEECH AT OH HIGH SCHOOL SPARKS OUTRAGE

“My wife, she works down at The Limed, and there are a lot of gay guys down there.

When the subject of my homosexualy reared s head wh a guy named Steve om my tenth gra English class, he shgged. Gay rights opns people. He was there wh our close iend om llege who’s now openly gay.

That he barely saw our iend, the gay guy, at all that night … and that he was there wh his new hband anyway.