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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.