Gay unselor's firg at Indiana Catholic school OK'd by urt

Contents:

• CATEGORY ARCHIV: GAY WRTLG
• OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• GAY HIGH SCHOOL WRTLER ME OUT TO HIS TEAM, THEN REACHED THE STATE FAL
• STEVENSON WRTLER DYLAN GEICK: 'I AM NOT ALONE' AS A GAY HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETE

CATEGORY ARCHIV: GAY WRTLG

Sunday’s “Great Midwtern Trendkill” event wasn’t the first time out gay pro wrtler AC Mack stepped to a Naptown All-Pro Wrtlg rg, but will be his last. He is an out gay Black man the South who thrived, buildg human nnectns whose strength manifted the emotnal rponse by the ACTION fanbase when he announced he was leavg -rg petn last month. WASHINGTON – A feral appeals urt has led that a Catholic high school Indianapolis was ee to fire a gay guidance unselor bee she performed at least some relig duti, the latt legal setback for LGBTQ+ rights when they nflict wh Fzgerald had worked for 14 years as a guidance unselor at Ronlli High School when school officials disvered she was married to another woman.

OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN

The two-year pta of the Meadowdale High School wrtlg team had heard enough of the homophobia tossed around the locker room. Certaly word had spread through the high school that one of the school’s bt athlet was gay. They were whisperg about him beg gay.

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

Ball lled the 30 or so wrtlers together and talked wh them about beg gay, rpectg one another, and cuttg out the language the locker room that did ltle more than divi them. Ball said the e of slurs and other sensive “gay talk” was virtually elimated overnight after his nversatn wh the team. However, he ntued to hear slurs and other anti-gay language om opposg wrtlers at meets.

In addn to beg a standout athlete and team pta at his high school, he’s also the vice-print of the stunt body, print of the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance, and volunteers for the lol labor unn durg electns.

Last May, Dylan Geick was havg lunch wh some iends at Stevenson when the talk turned to the news that a fellow stunt had jt e out as gay.

GAY HIGH SCHOOL WRTLER ME OUT TO HIS TEAM, THEN REACHED THE STATE FAL

"Geick — now a senr bound for Columbia Universy and a two-time state placer for Stevenson's wrtlg team — is not the only Chigo-area high school athlete to e out as and cross-untry nner Konrad Eirg, now a sophomore petg at Illois, also me out as a junr at Barrgton and Geick are part of a small but growg number of out athlet at the high school and llege levels. But he also n't rell not feelg fortable wh the ia of beg gay.

Probably by sophomore year, I knew and had e to terms wh by junr year. "She said, 'Too bad, he's probably gay, '" Geick relled.

STEVENSON WRTLER DYLAN GEICK: 'I AM NOT ALONE' AS A GAY HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETE

"Once I me here, I never had a problem wh gay people.

But was hard to image one of my bt iends beg gay. "I don't thk he's a bad kid and I don't thk he's homophobic.

Columbia wrtlg ach Zach Tanelli was among those who learned Geick was gay om the Outsports story. Reversg the guil stands to flame passns the nflict the Uned Stat between believers tradnal valu and those advotg lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr school athlete Mack Beggs, a transgenr boy, pet a state champnship girls wrtlg petn, Cyprs, Texas, U.