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Contents:

• I AM CALV UNIVERSY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY STUNT BODY PRINT.
• CALV UNIVERSY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY STUNT BODY PRINT PAV A PATH
• TEXAS A&M’S FIRST OPENLY GAY STUNT BODY PRINT TO TAKE OFFICE
• THE BALLAD OF BOBBY BROOKS, THE FIRST GAY STUNT-BODY PRINT OF TEXAS A&M
• TEXAS A&M’S FIRST OPENLY GAY STUNT BODY PRINT TAK OFFICE
• TEXAS A&M'S FIRST OPENLY GAY STUNT BODY PRINT TO TAKE OFFICE
• CALV UNIVERSY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY STUNT BODY PRINT: ‘NOT ALONE’
• RICK PERRY CHALLENG ELECTN OF TEXAS A&M’S FIRST GAY STUNT BODY PRINT, SAYS WAS ‘STOLEN’ ‘NAME OF DIVERSY’
• TEXAS A&M'S FIRST OPENLY GAY STUNT BODY PRINT VOWS TO IMPROVE DIVERSY
• THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO W AN ELECTN AMERI WAS NOT HARVEY MILK
• THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ELECTED OFFICIAL THE US WAS SHOT TO DEATH
• THE BALLAD OF BOBBY BROOKS, THE FIRST GAY STUNT-BODY PRINT OF TEXAS A&M
• CREIGHTON UNIVERSY ELECTS S FIRST OPENLY-GAY, LATO STUNT BODY PRINT
• THE BRIEF: TAMU ELECTED S FIRST OPENLY GAY STUNT BODY PRINT. HOLD UP, SAYS RICK PERRY.
• TEXAS A&M'S FIRST GAY STUNT BODY PRINT HAS A MSAGE FOR RICK PERRY
• THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON ELECTED PRINT OF THE ASUO

I AM CALV UNIVERSY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY STUNT BODY PRINT.

The church’s posn on homosexualy is that while gay members are to be given love and support om their muni, the practice of homosexualy “is patible wh obedience to the will of God as revealed scripture. "I equated beg gay wh s, and I wasn’t fortable wh that my life yet, " she said.

CALV UNIVERSY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY STUNT BODY PRINT PAV A PATH

Still workg through her own sexualy, she relled gog to church and hearg a sermon about how gay people shouldn’t get married. “I pretend I agreed, even though I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh, this is really hard to hear, ’” she sophomore year was tough, not only bee she was stgglg wh rencilg who she was wh her relig beliefs but there were other setbacks, too: Her grandmother and dog both died, and she went through a breakup — all the same week. In the 102 years that Stunt Senate has existed, we’ve never had an openly gay stunt body print.

I’m proud to be Calv’s first openly gay stunt body print, but hasn’t always been easy to be queer at Calv or to be open wh my story.

TEXAS A&M’S FIRST OPENLY GAY STUNT BODY PRINT TO TAKE OFFICE

Sendly, I didn’t want everyone my life to see me as jt gay and overlook all of the other thgs that make me who I am; my bad puns, my statement earrgs, my love for How I Built This, or my obssn wh oatk. Numero profsors, alumni, and fay members have asked me why I’m wrg this now–given that “’s easy to be gay at Calv 2020, ” and “tim have changed.

” I have no doubt that is easier to be gay at Calv 2020 than any other time the past: gay marriage has been legal every state for five years, overall support the U. I’m honored to be Calv’s first openly gay stunt body print–and will ntue to reprent your opns at the tabl where cisns are beg ma.

THE BALLAD OF BOBBY BROOKS, THE FIRST GAY STUNT-BODY PRINT OF TEXAS A&M

But to Murashima and to many of her fellow graduat, her more sgular and unexpected achievement was havg navigated her senr year while servg as the first openly gay stunt body print the history of the landmark Christian universy Grand Rapids, Michigan. Calv is affiliated wh the Christian Reformed Church, a small nomatn that holds that “homosexual practice … is patible wh obedience to the will of God as revealed Scripture.

TEXAS A&M’S FIRST OPENLY GAY STUNT BODY PRINT TAK OFFICE

She also stggled to rencile her love for a fellow female stunt and her Christian fah that saw homosexualy as sful.

“I was pretty prsed my hman and sophomore years, ” Murashima said.

TEXAS A&M'S FIRST OPENLY GAY STUNT BODY PRINT TO TAKE OFFICE

By then, Murashima knew she was gay and had already e out to her mother and one of her roommat. “In the 102 years that Stunt Senate has existed, we’ve never had an openly gay stunt body print, ” she wrote. Over the urse of the school year she worked hard, she said, to prove to Calv’s more nservative stunts she uld follow God, be gay and lead well.

She avoid hot-button words like “homophobia” or “discrimatn, ” and tried her bt to listen and give people of different views opportuni to be heard. The CRC has no openly gay clergy.

The 21-year-old junr has been openly gay sce hman year and served as executive vice print of diversy for the past year.

CALV UNIVERSY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY STUNT BODY PRINT: ‘NOT ALONE’

His moment me Monday when the school clared him the next stunt body print, makg him the first openly gay stunt to occupy the post.

He spoke French to e out to his bt iend: “Je suis gay, ” he rells sayg. Durg the appeals procs, Brooks said people lled him homophobic slurs public, one stance brgg a iend to tears.

Brooks is the newly elected, openly gay stunt-body print at A&M—the first ever at the historilly nservative llege—and he tak his post serly. “When I first read that our stunt body had elected an openly gay man, Bobby Brooks, for print of the stunt body, I viewed as a ttament to the Aggie character, ” Perry starts . “I knew how many people were nservative and still were okay givg me their vote, even though they knew that I was gay.

RICK PERRY CHALLENG ELECTN OF TEXAS A&M’S FIRST GAY STUNT BODY PRINT, SAYS WAS ‘STOLEN’ ‘NAME OF DIVERSY’

To say, ‘I’m a gay stunt and a member of the queer muny, but I still am like you. COLLEGE STATION, Texas (Texas Tribune) — Texas A&M Universy’s first openly gay stunt body print is set to take office next month, markg a tone for the largt public universy the state. Texas A&M Universy's first openly gay stunt body print is set to take office next month, markg a tone for the largt public universy the state.

Texas A&M Universy's first openly gay stunt body print is set to take office next month, markg a tone for the largt public universy the state. (WOOD) — Claire Murashima, Calv Universy’s first openly gay stunt body print, says she wants stunts like her to realize they’re not alone.

“I jt wanted people to see stunts at Calv or jt kids growg up the CRC that if they are lbian, gay, bisexual there is reprentatn and they’re not alone, ” said Murashima.

TEXAS A&M'S FIRST OPENLY GAY STUNT BODY PRINT VOWS TO IMPROVE DIVERSY

Bobby Brooks, a junr at Texas A&M, ma history this month when he was elected as the universy’s first openly gay stunt body two s prr, Rick Perry, also an A&M alumn, ma his own b of universy history when he beme the first Aggie to serve as ernor of for their shared school pri, the men and their acplishments had nothg to do wh each changed Wednday, when Perry, the untry’s current energy secretary, chose to plunge to mp polics, claimg publicly that Brooks stole the electn om another stunt, Robert McIntosh, is the son of a proment Republin fundraiser Dallas who mpaigned for Donald Tmp durg his printial ’s accatn drew astound rpons om the universy, Texas lawmakers and a profsor, who said was “extraordary” that a feral official would volve himself an issue as hyperlol as stunt ernment electns.

“When I first read that our stunt body had elected an openly gay man, Bobby Brooks, for print of the stunt body, I viewed as a ttament to the Aggie character, ” Perry wrote.

THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO W AN ELECTN AMERI WAS NOT HARVEY MILK

Brooks and the stunt chief jtice did not rpond to a siar requt om The Washgton a tone that rembled the same fury over “polil rrectns” that boosted Tmp, Perry suated his mentary that McIntosh was unfairly disqualified bee his opponent was gay.

”Perry said “every Aggie ought to ask themselv” if they would allow a black, gay or nonwhe male to be disqualified om an electn on the same grounds as offered a sharp rebe to that claim, too: “To suggt that the same cisn of disqualifitn would not have been ma if the rol were reversed is to ny the Texas A&M of today where acuntabily appli to all, ” she told the Battaln. ”“He’s wrten as a ll for fairns, not that he’s e out agast the first gay stunt body print at A&M, ” Cal Jillson, a polil-science profsor at Southern Methodist Universy, told the Hoton Chronicle, “but the extraordary part is that he took the time to do this when he should have so many bigger fish to y his current job.

Armstrong is the first openly gay stunt body print the universy has known. The risg senr, a native of Ridgefield, Conn., got volved the mp gay and lbian muny after arrivg Ann Arbor three years ago. Armstrong unrstands what the tone means for the gay and lbian muny, but said he'll ultimately be judged by what he do for stunts the here-and-now.

THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ELECTED OFFICIAL THE US WAS SHOT TO DEATH

The electn of junr enomics major Bobby Brooks (center) as Texas A&M's first openly gay stunt body print marks a tone for the school, which as recently as 2014 had ranked among the 20 least LGBT-iendly lleg the U. "Je suis gay, " Brooks said he told her Edutn LabReceive our -pth verage of tn issu and stori that affect North was early his llege reer. Now the junr enomics major is the universy's first openly gay stunt body 's a tone for Texas A&M, which as recently as 2014 had ranked among the 20 least LGBT-iendly lleg the U.

"I want every sgle stunt to feel that they are wele here and their ntributns are wele, " Brooks told The Aggie stunts were already fightg for acknowledgement om their universy back the 1970s, when Texas A&M refed to officially regnize a mp group lled Gay Stunt Servic. Universy officials claimed was appropriate for the school to regnize the stunt anizatn bee "homosexual nduct" was illegal Texas.

That lg found that the universy had vlated stunts' ee-speech rights and poted out that "no Texas law mak a crime to be a homosexual. Johnson’s mpaign announcement vio, released last month, highlighted the 57-year-old’s experience as an attorney, an openly gay Texan and a state lawmaker who unseated former Republin state Rep. Durg her first year office 2019, Johnson joed four other openly gay women the Texas Hoe to form the state’s first LGBTQ uc, now one of the natn’s largt.

THE BALLAD OF BOBBY BROOKS, THE FIRST GAY STUNT-BODY PRINT OF TEXAS A&M

There are jt 12 out LGBTQ people are servg the current Congrs — 10 the Hoe and two the Senate — spe more than 7 percent of the natn’s adult populatn intifyg as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or “somethg other than heterosexual, ” acrdg to a Febary Gallup poll.

Natnwi, the number of openly gay women elected to public office has stalled, up only 0.

US Energy Secretary Rick Perry weighed Wednday on the stunt body electn of his alma mater, qutng whether Texas A&M’s first openly gay stunt body print legimately earned the tle. Robert McIntosh, the son of a proment Republin fundraiser, earned 750 more vot than Brooks, an openly gay stunt. “Would the admistratn and the stunt body have allowed the first gay stunt body print to be void for g chary glow sticks?

CREIGHTON UNIVERSY ELECTS S FIRST OPENLY-GAY, LATO STUNT BODY PRINT

“Why don’t we n you as openly gay? When sworn the followg year, Milk beme the first openly gay Amerin to be elected to high office the untry.

As an office-holr, Milk fought for equal rights for all by opposg unnstutnal measur such as the anti-gay Proposn 6. Prop 6, which stoked homophobia among nservativ, aimed to remove any gays or lbians servg California’s public schools, allegg that they were at risk of moltg children (spe the fact that a much higher rate of sexual moltatn occurred among heterosexuals, by virtue of the fact that there were many more straight teachers than gays).

THE BRIEF: TAMU ELECTED S FIRST OPENLY GAY STUNT BODY PRINT. HOLD UP, SAYS RICK PERRY.

The measure lled for a public wch hunt to be nducted orr to “out” any gays servg the schoolg system.

TEXAS A&M'S FIRST GAY STUNT BODY PRINT HAS A MSAGE FOR RICK PERRY

Energy secretary, is qutng the legimacy of the electn that gave his alma mater s first openly gay stunt body print. Rick Perry is qutng the legimacy of a stunt body electn at Texas A&M Universy that gave his alma mater s first openly gay stunt body print.

The mishap hand the victory to Brooks, who beme the school’s first openly gay stunt body print. “I’m jt very cur as to why Secretary Perry would ci to weigh for the first time on an electn that volved the first openly gay [stunt body print]. ” In his lumn, Perry said he was ially proud to see an openly gay man elected but later nclud the electn was “stolen.

By all known acunts, Lynn Pckney was the first openly gay stunt to have been elected print of a stunt body the Uned Stat.

THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON ELECTED PRINT OF THE ASUO

Durg her mpaign and throughout the first year of her princy, Pckney had the support of an active gay muny on mp. In fact, when she first ran for the princy of the Associated Stunts of the Universy of Oregon as an out lbian the sprg of 1985, there was already a long history of gay and lbian stunt activy at the UO.

She had been ncerned that stunts-at-large might discrimate agast her bee of her sexual orientatn and posn as -director of the Gay and Lbian Alliance (GALA), and that their fear or ignorance would translate to fewer vot. Pckney was well aware that there was an unrlyg enmic climate of homophobia and heterosexism on mp that fluenced the daily liv of gay and lbian stunts, faculty, and staff.