Spotlight on WPHS Graduate Mara Gay

Contents:

• VIBRANT BUT INVISIBLE: GAY LIFE WTCHTER COUNTY
• 20TH ANNUAL GAY PROM COMG TO WHE PLAS
• THE ORANGEWHE PLAS HIGH SCHOOL"ALL THE JUICE THAT'S F TO PRT"TIGER NEWSABOUTBULLETCLUBS & ORGANIZATNSENTERTAMENTFEATURGLOBAL NEWSLOL NEWSOPNSPORTSMOREUSE TAB TO NAVIGATE THROUGH THE MENU EMS.SEARCHLOG / SIGN UPTHEORANGEWPHSMAR 143 M READSPOTLIGHT ON WPHS GRADUATE MARA GAY
• LGBTQ+ SUPPORT GROUPS WHE PLAS, NY
• MEET MARA GAY

VIBRANT BUT INVISIBLE: GAY LIFE WTCHTER COUNTY

All thgs nsired, Wtchter is a good place to be gay. But the lack of a hive muny and the arth of gay meetg plac n be difficult for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rints. “People might not know the cheerful pharmacist is gay or the mail rrier is a lbian.

20TH ANNUAL GAY PROM COMG TO WHE PLAS

“There’s no ‘gayborhood’ Wtchter, ” says Juhren. The LOFT is the center of gay life Wtchter.

Gay polics. Gay Marriage. Wtchter’s gay marriage laws are also more progrsive than those of New York State as a whole.

In 2006, a nservative group lled the Alliance Defense Fund sued, claimg Spano didn’t have the right to regnize gay marriag. There has actually been at least one gay Wtchter weddg legally regnized by New York: the marriage of Whe Plas lbian uple Joann Przivalli and Tdy Katz.

THE ORANGEWHE PLAS HIGH SCHOOL"ALL THE JUICE THAT'S F TO PRT"TIGER NEWSABOUTBULLETCLUBS & ORGANIZATNSENTERTAMENTFEATURGLOBAL NEWSLOL NEWSOPNSPORTSMOREUSE TAB TO NAVIGATE THROUGH THE MENU EMS.SEARCHLOG / SIGN UPTHEORANGEWPHSMAR 143 M READSPOTLIGHT ON WPHS GRADUATE MARA GAY

Acrdg to a recent survey of transgenr life by the Natnal Center for Transgenr Equaly and the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force, 21 percent of trangenred people reported an attractn to the same genr. “Straight transpeople n’t get married, but gay transpeople n. “No gay ghetto”.

A gay muny ually isn’t a top reason.

“I get emails all the time askg me where Wtchter’s a good place to live if you’re gay, ” says Gregg Cartage of Pound Ridge, who ns The LOFT’s parentg group.

LGBTQ+ SUPPORT GROUPS WHE PLAS, NY

The fay later moved to Cortlandt Manor, where they are the only gay parents they know of their kids’ elementary school. The uple miss the gay muny they had Hell’s Kchen. He says they haven’t taken much advantage of the gay muny at The LOFT bee, like many Wtchter fai, they’re by wh work and fay.

MEET MARA GAY

Many gay upl are preoccupied wh their fai and rponsibili, and see no need for a gay bar. Ask an olr gay Wtchter rint about the nightlife, and you’ll hear about how much better ed to be.