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Contents:

• JAN GAY SELECTED AS CE&S FELLOW
• JAN GAY AND ZACHARY MCNIECE RECIVE CSJ GRANT
• JAN GAY
• FIRED GAY GUIDANCE UNSELOR CHALLENG CATHOLIC SCHOOL’S RELIG EXEMPTN OM EMPLOYMENT LAW
• GAY, JAN
• DISVER THE BENEFS OF WORKG WH A GAY COUNSELLOR
• JAN GAY
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• THERAPISTS SPECIALIZG GAY COUNSELG | NEAR ME & ONLE
• JAN GAY

JAN GAY SELECTED AS CE&S FELLOW

Jan Gay. Jan Gay is a 1st year Ph.

Gay is currently licensed as a Natnal Certified Counselor (NCC), a Profsnal School Counselor and a Licensed Inpennt Certified Social Worker (LICSW).

Jan Gay is a member of the Amerin School Counselor Associatn (ASCA), Amerin Counselg Associatn (ACA), Associatn for Counselor Edutn and Supervisn(ACES), Southern Associatn for Counselor Edutn and Supervisn(SACES), Florida Counselg Associatn (FCA), Florida Associatn of Counselor Edutn and Supervisn (FACES), and the Florida School Counselg Associatn. In the Headl Jan Gay, doctoral stunt was selected for the 2020-2021 Counselor Edutn and Supervisn Journal Fellowship Program.

JAN GAY AND ZACHARY MCNIECE RECIVE CSJ GRANT

jswank2020-07-31 16:53:412020-07-31 16:53:41Jan Gay Selected as CE&S Fellow. Des before a formalized queer activist movement popped up, a rearcher named Jan Gay cid to seek liberatn a different way.

For Gay, the rearch was a sort of Trojan horse.

Gay saw her study as a subtler type of activism—a way to document the many shas of queer inty, but also to show the world that queer people were far more like the rt of society than they had been given cred. What ma her rearch all the more radil is that Gay herself was openly a lbian. Today, we have many ways to remember Gay: as a picture-book thor, a nudist lear, and the one-time roommate of Andy Warhol.

JAN GAY

In honor of the 100th anniversary of her birth this year, I have renstcted parts of Gay’s life through material held at the Library of Congrs and the Johns Hopks Medil Archiv, as well as om letters sent to me om a fay member of Gay’s. The glimps of Gay’s legacy highlight how early queer people envisned rearch as a way to advote for their muny—and how they were nohels erased om that From Harper's BAZAARFour upl of women pose for a photo, .

1910 (Photo by Kirn Vtage Stock/Corbis via Getty Imag)Kirn Vtage Stock//Getty ImagJan Gay was born wh the name Helen Reman on Febary 14, 1902 Leipzig, Germany. Gay’s father, Ben Reman, was a proment doctor and anarchist activist, who also had a hab of womanizg. Gay was born while her mother revered om mental health Gay moved to the Uned Stat, she studied at Northwtern Universy.

In 1927, to distance herself om her father, she changed her name to Jan Gay—eher as a nod to the dual meang of the word gay, or, more likely, as a reference to her mother’s fay. (Gay was her maternal grandfather’s middle name. ) Around the same time, she met Eleanor Byrn, an illtrator who eventually took on the psdonym Zhenya Gay.

FIRED GAY GUIDANCE UNSELOR CHALLENG CATHOLIC SCHOOL’S RELIG EXEMPTN OM EMPLOYMENT LAW

Gay also beme an early figure the nudism movement: She served as the director of the Out-of-Door Club, a nudist lony of 50 people Highland, New York, where she enuraged rearchers to study the psychologil differenc between nudists and people who wore cloth. In 1932, she published On Gog Naked, a book that blends Gay’s own experience of nudism wh a larger history of the nudism movement. When the book was adapted to a documentary lled This Nu World, Gay wrote the script.

”What ma her rearch all the more radil is that Gay herself was openly a lbian. At Hirschfeld’s Instute for Sexual Science, a proment rearch clic, Gay read Hirschfeld’s “books and not and rerds ncerng homosexuals, seeg somethg of the treatment acrd them, ” she wrote later. In one seri of letters 1939, Gay sent a prted qutnnaire to universi like Barnard College.

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Her qutns mt have sound peculiar to a school admistrator the 1930s: What was, Gay asked, the faculty’s attu toward csh or “passnate iendships” among same-genr stunts?

“Homosexualy among stunts of Barnard College is not a problem of any magnu, ” Alsop said. When Gay sent the same qutnnaire to other schools, only some exprsed greater openns to the ia that they might have queer stunts their ranks. Vermont’s Benngton College admted to Gay that had disvered “two or three” relatnships between female stunts, and a doctor at Mount Holyoke said that three girls had “brought up the qutn of homosexualy” wh saw her study as a subtler type of until that pot, the Uned Stat, rearch to queer people was highly clil, and often done through a lens of ntempt.

DISVER THE BENEFS OF WORKG WH A GAY COUNSELLOR

”When Gay had fished her terviews, she piled them to a 70, 000-word book, which she tentatively tled Soclogil Aspects of Female Homosexualy. Gay ntacted the gynelogist and birth ntrol advote Robert Latou Dickson, who proposed that the two of them llaborate on a larger study of homosexualy. In s ial outle, the Commtee for the Study of Sex Variants noted that the subjects of s study “were to be obtaed through the servic of Miss Jan Gay, ” addg—phemistilly—that Gay had “close ntact wh this field for a number of years.

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” (The mtee knew that Gay was queer. )Two women on bend knee and drsed as men, appear to be proposg marriage to two women unison, cir Vtage Stock//Getty ImagGay troduced each queer person to the mtee g only their first name and last ial. Then, the rearchers classified each person as eher bisexual, homosexual, or soon found herself siled out of her own study.

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

From the start, Gay and Henry had very different aims. While Gay saw the rearch as a way to showse the variety the queer muny, Henry viewed queerns as a threat to the heterosexual orr. He wrote an early proposal that “homosexualy is a form of arrted psychosexual velopment which serly terfer wh reproductn.

They paid Gay to “supplement” her rearch wh stricter medil histori of each queer person, cludg by nductg X-rays, pelvic measurements, physil examatns, and hormone iends and acquatanc of Gay sat for extend terviews wh the rearchers, they told her that the techniqu felt vasive. In a September 1935 letter, Gay wrote to a rearcher on the mtee that three of her iends “went away om their terviews feelg that they had rather been ma fools of, ” and plaed that the rearchers’ llo approach to terviewg queer women was jeopardizg the study. Gay wrote one letter, “When one of the foremost women paters Ameri giv up an afternoon and eveng to such a study as this and the whole emphasis nversatn wh her is placed upon the pattern of her sex procre—wh not even the vagut mentn of her creative and athetic and spirual terts and velopment—somethg is, seems to me, a ltle b wrong.

THERAPISTS SPECIALIZG GAY COUNSELG | NEAR ME & ONLE

In May 1939, when Gay read the mancript for the mtee’s rearch fdgs—soon to be the book Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns—“My chief reactn is one of disappotment, ” she wrote a letter to the entire mtee.

” While few of the queer people terviewed had crimal histori, Henry repeatedly pared them to “psychotics” and “crimals, ” Gay wrote.

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Gay asked the mtee to rensir key aspects of the book, but they didn’t seem to take her advice. Almost entirely absent om the book, however, was the prence of Gay. After Sex Variants was published, Gay left science to work public relatns.