Wabash College's Gay-Straight Alliance

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Natnal Associatn of Wabash Men Print Greg Castanias '87 had to stggle to be heard over the enthiastic nversatn the Trippet Dg Room Saturday durg the first workg event between gay alumni and members of sh'Out, the College's gay, lbian, and straight stunt alliance.

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    Luis Rivera '25 had his hatns about g to Wabash College. As a gay man, he worried that he might not f at an all-male llege. But after spendg his summer on mp wh the WLAIP, he's nfint he'll not only f , but thrive over the next four years. * wabash college gay *

    October is LGBTQ+ History Month, and ‘shOUT, Wabash’s gay-straight alliance, has taken the opportuny to anize a seri of events that highlight queer culture and history. But more than this, the group has sought to remd Wabash scholars that we are all nnected, even on a mp of all-male stunts, to people who are Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer. As a gay man, he worried that he might not f at an all-male llege.

    “I didn’t nsir that I, a 19-year-old gay, Black, and Lato man, had a voice that mattered, ” he says, gog on to rell an teractn he had wh a classmate this summer on mp. Before I met you, I was homophobic and I didn’t really unrstand gay people. They had never been around a gay person before or lived muni wh people of lor, ” Rivera says.

    “So, when they saw that I was jt a normal person, I wasn’t livg out the stereotyp of what they had pictured a gay, Black man to be, they were nfed and qutned a lot. Karen Gunther, profsor of psychology, to exprs an tert ‘shOUT (Wabash College’s Gay-Straight Alliance), and to receive guidance on what was gog to be like as a queer stunt on mp.

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