Is Jam Corn Gay? ‘The Prom’ Netflix Mil Movie Cricism – StyleCaster

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The Netflix versn is a straight person’s imagg of a gay love story for a straight dience … ma by a gay person? Make make sense.

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JAM CORN FAC BLISTERG BACKLASH FOR ‘GROSS AND OFFENSIVE’ PORTRAYAL OF A GAY MAN THE PROM

Jam Corn has been slammed for his "gross and offensive" portrayal of a gay man the upg Netflix mil film The Prom. * the prom gay *

The tradn beme mastream by the end of the super blah 1950s, and wasn't until 1979 that the first openly gay uple me to prom Sux Falls, South Dakota. The first "gay prom" happened almost 20 years later Los Angel, California. Aaron Fricke, a gay stunt who sought a urt orr to allow him to brg a male iend to his high school prom.

"A uple of years ago, there was a big mystery about how we n support youth who intify as gay and lbian, " Lyl said.

APRIL SHOWERS BRG GAY PROMS

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While his school has a "huge muny" of queer kids, he "didn't even know what the word trans meant" until his sophomore year high school.

HOW DID NETFLIX’S ‘THE PROM’ MIL—AND JAM CORN’S PERFORMANCE—BEE A BIG GAY CRISIS?GIVE IT SOME ZAZZNETFLIXTHE FEEL-GOOD MIL WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A HEARTWARMG BALM, YET THERE’S OUTRAGE OVER JAM CORN’S “OFFENSIVE” TURN AS A FLAMBOYANT, GAY THEATRE STAR. WHAT WENT WRONG? KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDPUBLISHED DEC. 10, 2020 3:58AM EST IT’S NOT A MEMORABLE PROM UNLS THERE’S A LTLE SNDAL.OF URSE, SNDAL MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE LAST THG ON NETFLIX AND RYAN MURPHY’S MDS WHEN THE STREAMER AND NTENT MOGUL FAST-TRACKED THE FEEL-GOOD, QUEER-POSIVE BROADWAY MIL THE PROM OM STAGE TO SCREEN RERD TIME.THE PROM PUTS TO ZIPPY MIC AND QUIPPY DIALOGUE THE STORY OF AN INDIANA TEEN WHO IS BANNED OM HER NSERVATIVE HIGH SCHOOL’S PROM WHEN TO LIGHT THAT SHE PLANNED TO ATTEND WH HER GIRLIEND. THE STORY GO VIRAL AND PTUR THE ATTENTN OF A GROUP OF BROADWAY VETERANS NEED OF A PR BOOST, SO THEY PACK UP THEIR JAZZ SHO AND MAKE A PILGRIMAGE TO THE MIDWT TO HELP THE VASTATED GIRL—AND REPAIR THEIR REPUTATNS. NEWSLETTERSTHE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSEDEVERYTHG WE N’T STOP LOVG, HATG, AND THKG ABOUT THIS WEEK POP CULTURE.SUBSCRIBEBY CLICKG "SUBSCRIBE" YOU AGREE TO HAVE READ THE TERMS OF USE AND PRIVACY POLICY AS THE LORE GO, MURPHY HAD SEEN THE PRODUCTN NEW YORK ONE NIGHT JANUARY 2019 AND WAS SO MOVED BY THAT, BY APRIL, HE ANNOUNCED THAT HE WAS MAKG TO A MOVIE. TWO MONTHS LATER, HE HAD SECURED A STARRY ST CLUDG MERYL STREEP, JAM CORN, NILE KIDMAN, ANDREW RANNELLS, AND KERRY WASHGTON. THE BROADWAY SHOW HAD ALREADY CLOSED BY THE TIME SHOOTG BEGAN, BUT MURPHY WAS STILL EAGER TO BRG THE FILM VERSN TO NETFLIX. AFTER COVID HALTED FILMG WH KEY SCEN STILL LEFT TO PTURE, THE A-LISTERS CHANNELED THEIR CHARACTERS’ “THE SHOW MT GO ON!” GUMPTN AND VISED PROTOLS THAT ALLOWED THE PROM TO BE AMONG THE FIRST FILMS TO RUME PRODUCTN AFTER THE PANMIC SHUTDOWN.AND WH GOOD REASON. THE SOURCE MATERIAL ON S OWN IS EMOTNAL MANNA AT A TIME STARVED FOR S KD OF HEART-BURSTG POSIVY, HOPE, AND HUMOR.TEARS FLOW EELY AND OFTEN, WHAT WH THE HIGH STAK OF TEENAGE EMOTNS AND THE SHEER CELTY BEHD THE MUNY’S TOLERANCE. YOU ALSO HAVE MERYL STREEP A LIZA MNELLI WIG SNTERG THROUGH TORCH BALLADS, TONGUE--CHEEK ONE-LERS THAT LOVGLY SKEWER BROADWAY, AND NILE KIDMAN AS A FOSSE CHOS GIRL SEEMGLY HAVG THE TIME OF HER LIFE AS SHE IMPLOR THROUGH SONG TO “GIVE SOME ZAZZ.”MERYL BELTG, NILE SHIMMYG, CRYG ABOUT LBIANS: WHAT A LIGHT! IT’S ALL MEANT TO BE NOCENT, SPIRATNAL FUN. SO WHY HAS THE FILM ALREADY BEEN MARKED FOR NTROVERSY?WHILE ’S HARD TO IMAGE THE PROM BEG ANYTHG BUT A CROWD-PLEASG H WH THE NETFLIX CROWD WHEN HS THE STREAMER ON FRIDAY, SEEMS TO HAVE ALIENATED A RE BASE OF S TEND DIENCE.AT THE CENTER OF THE CRICISM, THOUGH NOT THE LIM OF , IS THE STG OF AND PERFORMANCE BY JAM CORN, A STRAIGHT MAN, AS FLAMBOYANT BROADWAY LEADG MAN BARRY GLICKMAN, A CHARACTER WHO SELF-SCRIB AS “GAY AS A BUCKET OF WIGS… A BUCKET OF THEM!” ADVERTISEMENT BARRY AND DEE DEE ALLEN, THE TWO-TIME TONY WNER PLAYED BY STREEP, ARE BRAND AS TOXIC MEGALOMANIACS AFTER THEIR MOUNTG OF ELEANOR: THE MIL FLOPS WH CRICS. “WHAT DIDN’T THEY LIKE?” BARRY WONRS. “WAS THE HIP-HOP?”THEY ENLIST IENDS ANGIE (KIDMAN), WHO QU THE CHIGO ENSEMBLE AFTER BEG PASSED OVER AS ROXIE HART FOR 20 YEARS NNG, AND TRENT (RANNELLS), WHO IS BETWEEN GIGS SPE HIS OFT-MENTNED JUILLIARD TRAG, TO HELP TRANSFORM THEIR REPUTATNS AS CELEBRY NARCISSISTS TO CELEBRY ACTIVISTS.THEY STORM SMALL-TOWN INDIANA LIKE ’S THE BARRI THE L MIZ ACT CLOSER, TRENT PROUDLY ANNOUNCG, “WE ARE LIBERALS OM BROADWAY!” DPE THEIR SELFISH TENTNS, THEY ALL ARE STANTLY TOUCHED BY THE PLIGHT OF EMMA (NEWER JO ELLEN PELMAN), DISTURBED ONCE OUTSI THEIR BROADWAY BUBBLE TO SEE HOW MUCH TOLERANCE STILL EXISTS.BARRY, WHO WAS SHUNNED BY HIS OWN PARENTS AFTER G OUT AS GAY, TAK A PARTICULAR SHE TO EMMA, SUGGTG “YOU BE ELPHIE, I’M GALDA” AS HE TAK HER SHOPPG FOR PROM DRS AND ACH HER THROUGH THE SELF-LOATHG AND HEARTBREAK OF REJECTN PURELY BEE OF YOUR SEXUALY.CORN’S BARRY IS VERY GAY. HE IS LIMP-WRISTS, SLIGHT-LISP, GASPG-WH-EXCEMENT GAY. IT’S FAHFUL TO HOW BROOKS ASHMANSKAS, WHO WAS NOMATED FOR A TONY AWARD—AND IS AN OUT GAY MAN—PLAYED THE ROLE ON BROADWAY. IT’S HOW THE ROLE IS WRTEN. YET, THE YEAR 2020, THERE IS SOMETHG THAT N BE TRIGGERG ABOUT WATCHG A STRAIGHT ACTOR LIKE CORN PERFORM FLAMG-QUEER DRAG, WHETHER OR NOT THAT’S WHAT THE ROLE REQUIR.ERIK ANRSON, FOUNR OF AWARDSWATCH, LABELED CORN’S MPY PERFORMANCE “GROSS AND OFFENSIVE, THE WORST GAY-FACE A LONG, LONG TIME. IT’S HORRIFILLY BAD.” VANY FAIR’S RICHARD LAWSON LED THAT WH HIS “SULTG” PERFORMANCE, CORN, “FLTG AND LISPG AROUND THE MOST UNSPIRED OF RITUR, MISS ALL POTENTIAL FOR NUANCE.” DIGAL SPY’S IAN SANDWELL CRIED THAT CORN DIALED THE FLAMBOYANCE UP “TO THE POT OF BEG REGRSIVE AND OFFENSIVE, HTG EVERY GAY STEREOTYPE ALONG THE WAY.” ADVERTISEMENT NOT EVERY CRIC WHO SCREENED THE PROM ADVANCE OF FRIDAY’S NETFLIX BUT WAS TURNED OFF BY CORN’S PERFORMANCE. ONE ULD REASONABLY EXPECT A BROAR DIENCE MIGHT EVEN ADORE THE “CARPOOL KARAOKE” DRIVER’S SASHAY TO THIS PARTICULAR BRAND OF BROAD EDY SONG-AND-DANCE.FOR EVERY LLEAGUE OF ME WHO FOUND HIS WORK “ABOMABLE,” ANOTHER WAS AMED AND MOVED. IN HIS VARIETY REVIEW, OWEN GLEIBERMAN WROTE, “CORN MAY BE ATTACKED SOME QUARTERS FOR PORTRAYG BARRY AS A GAY STEREOTYPE, BUT LIKE CHRISTOPHER GUT WAG FOR GUFFMAN HE BURROWS SO EPLY TO THE CHARACTER THAT HE GIV HIM A THREE-DIMENSNAL SENCE. HE’S SOULFULLY FUNNY AND TOUCHG.”I PERSONALLY THK THE CRICISM IS OVERLY HARSH, PERHAPS PRIMED BY SIGHT-UNSEEN EXASPERATN THAT CORN, A STRAIGHT ACTOR, WAS ST THE FIRST PLACE. I’M OF MANY PLITED MDS WHEN TO THAT BATE, BUT CORN’S PERFORMANCE DIDN’T OFFEND ME. HE WAS PERFECTLY ENJOYABLE ACTG A CHARACTER AS WAS MEANT TO BE PLAYED. WHETHER HE SHOULD BE PLAYG AT ALL IS S OWN, SEPARATE ISSUE, WHICH SPEAKS TO WHAT BEN LEE POSED THE GUARDIAN: “JAM CORN PROV WHY STRAIGHT ACTORS SHOULD THK TWICE BEFORE PLAYG GAY.”THERE’S NO GOOD ANSWER TO THE “SHOULD STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAY GAY?” BATE.THEY SHOULDN’T, UNLS ’S TIMOTHéE CHALAMET GIVG A TENR APPROXIMATN OF QUEER LONGG AND DISAPPOTMENT, TREVANTE RHOS SHATTERG YOUR HEART, OR STANLEY TUCCI BEG IRRISTIBLY CHARMG, WHICH SE THEY SHOULD. UNLS, OF URSE, THERE HAVE RECENTLY BEEN TOO MANY STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG MAJOR GAY ROL A ROW, WHICH SE THEY STILL SHOULDN’T. UNLS ’S STANLEY TUCCI BEG UNFATHOMABLY VASTATG A SAME-SEX ALZHEIMER’S ROMANTIC DRAMA, WHICH SE HE GETS A PASS.A STRAIGHT ACTOR'S MPY TAKE ON A GAY ROLE N STILL BE GROUNDBREAKG, LIKE ROB WILLIAMS HELPG THE BIRDGE BEE A BOX-OFFICE SMASH. OR ERIC STONTREET AND THE WAYS WHICH MORN FAY’S MCH AND CAM HELPED MOVE THE MASTREAM WORLD FORWARD TERMS OF NOT JT GAY ACCEPTANCE, BUT ALSO THE ACCEPTANCE OF GAY LOVE. UNLS, HOWEVER, THAT PERFORMANCE REMAS THE BIGGT GAY REPRENTATN FOR SO LONG THAT SOMEHOW BE BOTH SHRILL AND STALE AT THE SAME TIME. ADVERTISEMENT THE MP AND CLICHéS ARE FUN WHEN YOU'RE LGHG, LIKE IF YOU FD JAM CORN HILAR THE PROM. AND ’S OFFENSIVE AND DAMAGG IF YOU FD HIS FLAMBOYANCE TO BE A PANRG MARGALIZATN. “THERE IS SOMETHG THAT N BE TRIGGERG ABOUT WATCHG A STRAIGHT ACTOR LIKE CORN PERFORM FLAMG-QUEER DRAG, WHETHER OR NOT THAT’S WHAT THE ROLE REQUIR.” SO HIRE GAY ACTORS FOR GAY ROL—THOUGH THAT TOO OFTEN SILO THEM TO ONE KD OF PERFORMANCE AND REER. SO DON’T THK ABOUT SEXUALY WHEN YOU’RE STG GAY ROL—THOUGH THAT IS A NEGLIGENCE OF STORYTELLG RPONSIBILY AND THE CULTURAL IMPERATIVE FOR REPRENTATN AND OPPORTUNY.IT’S CLEARLY A LANDME ISSUE. AND SOME WONRED WHY NETFLIX AND MURPHY, SPECIFILLY, WHO HAS A GROUNDBREAKG TRACK RERD OF CLIVE STG, WOULD WA TO ALL. CRICS’ AND FANS’ ROUNDG ALTERNATIVE CHOICE FOR CORN’S ROLE IS NATHAN LANE—AND PRETTY MUCH ONLY NATHAN LANE, WHICH SPEAKS A B TO WHY STG LIKE THIS IS SO IMPORTANT: THERE ARE FAR TOO FEW “BIG NAM” THAT E TO MD TO PLAY A LARGER-THAN-LIFE, OPENLY GAY ROLE.THEN THERE’S THE FACT THAT ASHMANSKAS, WHO PLAYED BARRY ON BROADWAY, IS, YOU KNOW, STILL ALIVE. IN FACT, THE ENTIRE ORIGAL BROADWAY ST HAS, UM, NOT DIED. THOUGH S N WAS CRIMALLY SHORT, WAS BELOVED BY THOSE WHO HAD A CHANCE TO SEE . EVEN MURPHY HIMSELF WAS MOVED ENOUGH TO PUT A MOVIE VERSN TO LIGHT-SPEED PRODUCTN. WOULDN’T ALLOWG THE BROADWAY ST TO REPRISE THEIR ROL HAVE PREVENTED THIS ENTIRE ISSUE?THAT’S ANOTHER BATE TO BE OF TWO MDS ABOUT. WOVEN TO THE FABRIC OF THE SHOW SELF IS THE IA OF BROADWAY HOOFERS STGGLG FOR RELEVANCE AN DTRY NSTANTLY SLIGHTG THEM FOR MOVIE STARS. (KIDMAN’S ANGIE IS AGHAST THAT CHIGO’S PRODUCERS HAVE LED GILLIGAN’S ISLAND STAR TA LOUISE A BIGGER DRAW AS ROXIE THAN HER, A SEASONED MIL PERFORMER.) THE STAR STG ARGUABLY BETRAYS THAT ETHOS OF THE SHOW. ADVERTISEMENT YET ON THE OTHER HAND, AT LEAST PART OF THE FUN OF A SPLASHY MOVIE MIL IS GETTG EXCED OVER THE UTTERLY RANDOM ROSTER OF MOVIE STARS BROUGHT TO WARBLE AND STUMBLE THROUGH THE ROL. THAT MAY EVEN BE HERENT TO THE GENRE OF MOVIE MILS SELF. BY THAT TOKEN, YOU N SEE WHY CORN MIGHT SEEM A NATURAL CHOICE TO PLAY A LEAD THE PROM.HAVG STARRED INTO THE WOODS AND CATS, NOT TO MENTN HAVG HOSTED THE TONY AWARDS AND FEATURED MIL THEATER ALMOST NSTANTLY ON THE LATE LATE SHOW, CORN WOULD FEASIBLY TOP A LIST OF “BIG NAM” FOR A SHOW THAT BOASTS AN UNABASHED EMBRACE OF BROADWAY AS A MAJOR PLOT. THAT’S NOT TO SAY HE SHOULD OR SHOULDN’T HAVE BEEN CHOSEN OVER A THEATER STAR OR AN OUT GAY ACTOR. IT’S JT TO ILLTRATE HOW CIRCUO AND NUANCED THIS NVERSATN N BE.I’D VENTURE THAT MOST PEOPLE WHO H PLAY ON THE PROM THIS WEEKEND WILL BE WHOLLY IGNORANT OF THIS ENTIRE BATE, AND WILL JT FD TO BE A FUN AND HEARTWARMG MIL WH A TOPIL MSAGE ABOUT LOVE. AND THAT’S WHAT IS. IT’S NO MASTERPIECE OF THE NON, BUT THE SONGS ARE TCHY, THE LGBT CLIVY IS A TREAT, STREEP IS GIVG ONE OF HER MOST ENERGETIC PERFORMANC YEARS, AND THERE’S JT NO UNRSELLG THE LIGHT OF KIDMAN DOG A FOSSE NUMBER ABOUT “ZAZZ.”BUT THAT’S WHY THE NVERSATNS ARE IMPORTANT, EVEN IF THERE ARE NO CLEAR ANSWERS, AND EVEN IF THEY ARE EXHSTG OR STEAL SOME OF THE FUN. IT’S VALID THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE TURNED OFF BY CORN’S PERFORMANCE, OR BY THE FACT THAT HE WAS ST AT ALL. WILL YOU SHARE THAT OPN? YOU MIGHT. YOU MIGHT NOT. YOU MIGHT BE SO ENRAGED YOU’LL WANT TO BURN YOUR OWN BUCKET OF WIGS A BONFIRE. OR YOU WON’T NOTICE THERE IS AN ISSUE AT ALL.THERE’S AN ALMOST OUTRAGEO DISSONANCE BETWEEN THE WELL-TENTNED HOLLYWOOD STARS SETTG OUT TO MAKE AN NOCENT, FUN MIL ABOUT QUEER ACCEPTANCE, AND THE GRENAS THAT ARE NOW EXPLODG AROUND . BUT THE DISURSE MATTERS, AND EVERY ONCE A WHILE THERE'S A LIGHTNG-ROD PROJECT OR PERFORMANCE LIKE THIS THAT ELECTRIFI THAT ENERGY RIGHT BACK TO THE ZEGEIST. THAT, IF YOU WILL, “GIV SOME ZAZZ.” KEV FALLON

The feel-good mil was supposed to be a heartwarmg balm, yet there’s outrage over Jam Corn’s “offensive” turn as a flamboyant, gay theatre star. What went wrong? * the prom gay *

After seeg the show, he now go after homophobic trolls on the web.

The sad thg is that we ntually get people emailg articl about another gay uple banned or another lbian uple banned, or guys weren’t allowed to wear a drs or girls weren’t allowed to wear tux and seems like we have so much further to go.

We all live small towns, and most of didn’t have the agency to be ourselv durg our public-schoolg atten were a diverse crowd of lovely people, cludg lbian upl, gay upl, nonbary guts and people who are trans.

JAM CORN PROV WHY STRAIGHT ACTORS SHOULD THK TWICE BEFORE PLAYG GAY

Is Jam Corn gay om "The Prom" mil movie on Netflix? Read about his sexualy and why there's cricism of his performance. * the prom gay *

‘It was the most fun I’d had a long time’Amari Callaway, 26, PhilalphiaI -hosted a queer prom last summer through my queer skate crew Rollg wh the Homos.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* THE PROM GAY

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It’s how the 31-year-old explas her fascatn wh <a href=">“promposals”</a> — the high school rual of vg a date to prom often through elaborate and public gtur.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But she never had that experience. In fact, her prom 2009 looked a lot different than how she had imaged — largely bee the all-girls Catholic school she attend wouldn’t allow stunts to brg same-sex dat or arrive solo.</p></div></div><div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“I jt wanted to enjoy the night wh my iends and not have to force myself to go wh a date that I wasn’t fortable wh,” said Dengler, who intifi as queer.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p><span class="wpds-c-gnhuPA wpds-c-gnhuPA-hqeSyH-variant-terstial wpds-c-gnhuPA-iPJLV-css hi-for-prt"><a data-qa="terstial-lk" href=">A gui to the words we e our genr verage</a></span></p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">On May 14, she fally got the chance to do prom her way. Donng a silvery blue tuxedo vt and shirt, Dengler attend her first queer prom Tampa wh a group of iends.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body grid-tablet-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“It was phenomenal,” she said. “Everyone was jt so fortable there. We danced the entire time.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Ahead of the event, she even ma <a href=">promposal vios</a> and posted them onle. “I wanted to experience a way,” she said, “and I felt like this was that way for me.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The visn behd the queer prom Dengler attend was to offer people a send chance at the night they’ve always wanted, said Holly Webarger, the founr and director of programmg for <a href=">QFX</a>, which hosted the event. It was also tend as a safe space for the LGBTQ muny Florida, “which is unr the attack of <a href=">anti-queer legislatn</a>,” she add.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p><span class="wpds-c-gnhuPA wpds-c-gnhuPA-hqeSyH-variant-terstial wpds-c-gnhuPA-iPJLV-css hi-for-prt"><a data-qa="terstial-lk" href=">The LGBTQ lawmakers want to make their stat a refuge for trans kids</a></span></p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“I wanted to know I uld walk that room and see … dividuals havg a good time dancg wh each other and not beg gawked at or ma to feel awkward,” Dengler said of her experience at queer prom. “And was so nice to see that. It was so nice to be a part of that.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Wh prom season unrway across the untry, other groups like QFX have been hostg formal events such as queer proms to break om the heteronormative tradns that have ma school danc a ght experience for some.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Many the LGBTQ muny say the events offer them a safe and clive space to be themselv. We asked a few of them to share their experienc and photos of their nights.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><i>Rpons have been eded for length and clary.</i></p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body grid-tablet-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-md" id="ITNOVJWG2BCTDDNONFAMNLPHR4"><div>‘It was the prom I wish my younger self had’</div></h3></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><i>Molly Hottle, 33, Seattle</i></p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Last June, I went to Skate Prom, a llaboratn between <a href=">Roll Around Seatown</a> and <a href=">CIB Seattle</a>. It was signed to jt give all a reason to drs up and skate. But was also a place for those of who didn’t always feel wele or at home at our tradnal high school proms to celebrate, skate and get fancy!</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">When I went to prom high school, was all very tradnal. I went wh a male date and wore the big drs. All of that was fe, but lookg back, I know I was tryg to f to a box. The box was like this cliche of what prom is supposed to look like the talogu and movi.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">As an adult, I was able to attend this prom and be myself. Two of my iends and I asked each other as platonic dat, and we ma each other rsag. I wore what I wanted, cludg my roller skat, and put on a ton of glter and extravagant makp. I wasn’t worried about what others thought of me or ftg to that box.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">We skated circl, held hands and did tricks at the skate park, all the pany of other queer people. It was the prom I wish my younger self had. It was the prom I wish every young queer person out there uld have.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><hr data-qa="article-ntent-divir" class="b bb bc-light pt-sm"/></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body grid-tablet-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-md" id="3CSA6YMZIBFZLJS6FV2DDQ3D54"><div>‘Wng prom royalty felt like a scene a movie’</div></h3></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><i>Simon Grav, 19, Norfolk</i></p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The queer prom I attend was hosted by different anizatns at my school, Old Domn Universy. I chose to go to support a close iend who helped plan the event. I also went bee my high school prom was terrible and was ls clive for queer people.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">One of the biggt highlights of my night at queer prom was walkg to the venue and feelg wele by seeg different queer people who attend my school. Later that night, I was crowned royal monarch, which tentnally breaks om tradnal genr-specific tl such as “homeg queen” or “prom kg.” Wng prom royalty felt like a scene a movie.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><hr data-qa="article-ntent-divir" class="b bb bc-light pt-sm"/></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body grid-tablet-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-md" id="H2AC4ZIJDZDX7P27RSWJW7D7HI"><div>‘It is always betiful to see so many people livg their tth’</div></h3></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><i>Liz Osowiecki, 27, Long Island</i></p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">When my iends and I were all high school, we eher weren’t fortable beg who we are or wasn’t safe to be who we are. The ia of gog to prom wh someone outsi of the “norm” wasn’t even a realistic ia. When we heard our iends were havg a queer prom, we were so exced, bee now we have real pri who we are and uldn’t wa to celebrate. It is always betiful to see so many people livg their tth.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body grid-tablet-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-md" id="5KDDW5N7EVBNZI7K26GOPXE6UQ"><div>‘I felt so reward gog to a formal event where I felt assured my genr’</div></h3></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><i>Samantha Ann Burnsi, 30, Webb Cy, Mo.</i></p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">I chose to go to the Pri prom bee a lot of my iends were gog. I love any exce to get drsed up, and I had jt the drs for the ocsn: a prom drs om the late ’70s that I rtored myself!</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">I mostly enjoyed seeg everyone drsed up so betifully, wearg cloth and styl they may not have been able to wear to their high school proms. We all live small towns, and most of didn’t have the agency to be ourselv durg our public-schoolg days.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The atten were a diverse crowd of lovely people, cludg lbian upl, gay upl, nonbary guts and people who are trans. Almost every reprentatn of the LGBTQIA+ alphabet was attendance, which wasn’t too shabby for a Pri prom small-town Kansas!</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">I was apprehensive about gog to the prom at first bee of nerv. But the end, was a wonrful time, and I felt so reward gog to a formal event where I felt assured my genr. Those opportuni don’t e up often enough!</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><hr data-qa="article-ntent-divir" class="b bb bc-light pt-sm"/></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body grid-tablet-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-md" id="VJQE7ARWG5CORJVQV5KLJRP66E"><div>‘It was the most fun I’d had a long time’</div></h3></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><i>Amari Callaway, 26, Philalphia</i></p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">I -hosted a queer prom last summer through my queer skate crew <a href=">Rollg wh the Homos.</a> We did some fundraisg and were able to put on a superfun eveng for our muny! The first half of the eveng was a sort of “cktail hour” held at a brewery one of our members -owns, wh mic, mglg and a photo booth setup.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The send half took place at a lol roller rk, where we skated and danced our prom fery. It was the most fun I’d had a long time, pecially wh the panmic, and was a wonrful makp prom experience for a lot of our members, who eher didn’t attend their proms or weren’t livg as their most thentic selv when they origally attend prom.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-md" id="FP37NUAAJZEENJK64YI7YX2W54"><div>‘We were able to provi a space where people knew they wouldn’t be judged’</div></h3></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><i>Prachi Misra, 20, Tampa</i></p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">This past amic year, I joed the Planned Parenthood Generatn Actn at the Universy of South Florida’s E-Board as event ordator, and the anizatn was hostg s first queer prom April. Wh this event,<b> </b>we provid a space where people knew they wouldn’t be judged for g as themselv and brgg who they wanted.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In creatg this safe space, we affirmed an aspect of their inty that tradnal high school proms overlook and sometim even dismiss. As a queer person of lor, I found healg to hear nversatns around me (“I’ve never met another queer Indian before”) and to create a space where people who felt visible were able to fd others like themselv and know that they have a support system — even if they didn’t grow up wh one.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><hr data-qa="article-ntent-divir" class="b bb bc-light pt-sm"/></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body grid-tablet-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-md" id="XFNFDMCDLRBLXJBQ4BIAVXZG4U"><div>‘Beg out and proud is an achievement my ey’</div></h3></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><i>Hayley Ianna, 23, Ptsburg, Kan.</i></p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">My time at Pri prom was one I will never fet. I have always dreamed of gog to a prom like the on I’d watch the films back Atralia. When I moved to the Uned Stat to unrtake my master’s gree, my wife and I were thrilled that my school and town put on a prom dited to our muny. I was a closeted lbian back Atralia, and beg out and proud is an achievement my ey. It is so important to be able to be who you are on a night you are supposed to remember and have dreamed about forever.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">I hear stori about trans youth or young LGBTQIA+ people not beg allowed to attend their schools’ proms and are then left wh a sour taste their mouth about prom. The Pri prom that was put on by <a href=">Q Space Pt</a> and <a href=">Ptsburg State GSA</a> helps remove the sour taste many my age may have. It also gave people like me, who realized who they were and beme proud after high school, a chance to relive a moment of youth we never believed we’d get back.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body grid-tablet-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><i>Photos urty of Molly Hottle, Riya Choksi, Prton Haton/Washgton Post Illtratn.</i></p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="wpds-c-VkPmP hi-for-prt"><div></div></div></div><div class="flex mt-md grid-center grid-body"><div class="mb-lg-mod" data-qa="ments-btn-div"><button aria-label="Scroll to the ments sectn" data-qa="ments-btn" class="wpds-c-kSOqLF wpds-c-kSOqLF-SQjOY-variant-sendary wpds-c-kSOqLF-eHdizY-nsy-flt wpds-c-kSOqLF-ejCoEP-in-left ments hi-for-prt"><svg xmlns=" viewBox="0 0 16 16" fill="currentColor" aria-hidn="te" focable="false" role="img" class="wpds-c-fBqPWp "><path d="M14 14V2H2v9.47h8.18L12.43 13ZM3 10.52V3h10v9.23l-2.5-1.66Z"></path></svg><span class="ral-unt unfed" data-ral-notext="te"></span> Comments</button></div><div class="wpds-c-dXjReQ"><button id="gift-share-shortcut" class="wpds-c-kSOqLF wpds-c-kSOqLF-SQjOY-variant-sendary wpds-c-kSOqLF-biynoz-nsy-pact wpds-c-kSOqLF-ejCoEP-in-left hi-for-prt ml-sm"><svg xmlns=" viewBox="0 0 16 16" fill="currentColor" aria-hidn="te" focable="false" role="img" class="wpds-c-dJBvpf "><path d="M10.73 5h.14a1.75 1.75 0 0 0 1-2.25 1.83 1.83 0 0 0-.51-.75 1.72 1.72 0 0 0-1.48-.35 1.76 1.76 0 0 0-1.2.94L8 3.93l-.68-1.4A1.76 1.76 0 0 0 4 3.59 1.74 1.74 0 0 0 5.13 5H2v4h1v5h10V9h1V5ZM9.58 3a.77.77 0 0 1 .51-.4h.17a.73.73 0 0 1 .47.17.72.72 0 0 1 .27.71.72.72 0 0 1-.48.58l-1.77.66ZM5 3.43a.72.72 0 0 1 .27-.71.73.73 0 0 1 .47-.17h.17a.77.77 0 0 1 .51.4l.83 1.7L5.48 4A.74.74 0 0 1 5 3.43ZM3 6h4.5v2H3Zm1 3h3.5v4H4Zm4.5 4V9H12v4ZM13 8H8.5V6H13Z" data-name="Path 10"></path></svg><span class="wpds-c-iSKIAI">Gift this article</span>Gift Article</button></div></div><div class="grid-center grid-body"><div></div></div></article><div class="centered-layout grid-layout"><div class="grid-center grid-mobile-full-bleed"><div class="hi-for-prt ml-to mr-to mt-md pt-lg recirc" data-qa="recirc"><div class="flex-l jtify-center hi-for-prt"><div class="pr-sm ml-sm ml-0-ns b-l br-l bc-gray-darkt more-om-post"><div></div><div class="dn db-l pb-md pt-md"><div data-qa="newsletter" class="hi-for-prt relative"><div class="dib w-100"><div><div class="flex jtify-center align self-center center transn-all duratn-400 ease--out" data-qa="sc-newsletter-signup" aria-label=""><svg aria-labelledby="react-aria-1-aria" role="img" viewBox="0 0 100 80"><tle id="react-aria-1-aria">Loadg... .

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