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Aldama" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">Moni Aldama</a> is the reason Navarro College is known as the bt the cheerleadg bs.</li><li><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="In Netflix's " class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">In Netflix's </a><em><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Cheer" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">Cheer</a>,</em> Aldama is portrayed as the take-no-prisoners ach who will do <em>anythg </em>to perfect her team’s route. But even wh her surprisgly soft meanor, she sh as a fierce advote of LGBTQ+ folks Corsina, Texas.</li><li>“I want everyone to know that they are loved jt how they are and that they should love themselv for who they are,” she tells exclively.</li></ul><style data-emotn="css 18pb4rg">{borr:0;borr-bottom:th solid black;marg:1.875rem 0;clear:both;}</style><hr data-no-id="1" class="css-18pb4rg et3p2gv0" /><style data-emotn="css 18vfmjb">{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1.1875rem;le-height:1.6;} em{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-style:alic;} strong{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:bold;}</style><p data-no-id="2" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Netflix’s fect six-part docu-seri <em><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Cheer" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">Cheer</a></em> has transformed s subjects to certified celebri wh a month of s release. The new show follows cheerlears at Navarro College Corsina, Texas as they gear up to fend their reign as NCA Junr College Divisn Natnal Champns unr the guidance of their relentls ach, Moni Aldama. </p><p data-no-id="3" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Fans of the show now regnize the star stunt athlet on a first-name basis—<a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Jerry Harris" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">Jerry Harris</a>, <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Man Simianer" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">Man Simianer</a>, <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="La’Dari Marshall" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">La’Dari Marshall</a>, <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Lexi Bmback" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">Lexi Bmback</a>, and <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Gabi Butler" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">Gabi Butler</a> are among the most talked about—and their antics on and off “the mat” have opened up a <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="meme factory" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">meme factory</a>. 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The profsor lls herself “the biggt gun-tot’ broad you ever did see” after a stunt mentns the right to bear arms. And she remds the class that most Texans, her opn, believe marriage exists only between “a man and woman.” Some of the stunts like Harris unfortably shift their seats, and as a gay man, I also wced while watchg. </p><p data-no-id="11" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Though the foc on Navarro’s road to another natnal petn is addictive, <em>Cheer </em>also sh a fascatg light on what ’s like to live the heart of Tmp’s Ameri. Which got me thkg: How do some of the LGBTQ+ cheerlears thrive emotnally a muny that don't seem to be very clive?</p><style data-emotn="css 10klw3m">{height:100%;}</style><div data-embed="stagram" data-no-id="12" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><style data-emotn="css 63r9na">{-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;m-height:10rem;background-lor:#F5F5F5;lor:#000;-webk-flex-directn:lumn;-ms-flex-directn:lumn;flex-directn:lumn;height:100%;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;}</style><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><style data-emotn="css 1msakm2">{width:3.125rem;height:3.125rem;}</style><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="stagram in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Instagram" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Instagram</a></div></div><p data-no-id="13" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Four episos , <em>Cheer</em> subtly addrs the plexi of sexualy and s nnectn to the sport of cheerleadg as we learn the backstori of star athlet such as <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="La’Dari Marshall" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">La’Dari Marshall</a>, who explas that his brothers weren’t at all fortable wh him beg gay. (<a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="On " class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">On </a><em><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Ellen" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">Ellen</a>, </em>he said the succs of the show has given him the eedom to “fly” and be himself.) 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I will. I don’t unrstand how people n be so cel about someone they don’t even know. And not only that they don’t know, but that they have probably never even been around or tried to form a relatnship wh someone that is gay.” </p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="16" data-embed="edorial-lk" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><asi class="css-y6rgkz e6pr2lz5"><h6 class="css-whsy2b e6pr2lz3"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p0"></span><span class="css-8lle59 e6pr2lz1">Related Stori</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></h6><ul class="css-c4s2gi e6pr2lz4"><li class="css-1b7ml99 e6pr2lz2"><a href="/life/relatnships-love/a28159555/how-to-be-lgbtq-ally/" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="6 Ways to Be a Better LGBTQ Ally" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Edorial Lks" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" class="css-1bn7a5e e1c1bym14"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p0"></span><img src="" alt="Gture, Hand, Fger, Thumb, Clip art, Graphics, " tle="Gture, Hand, Fger, Thumb, Clip art, Graphics, " width="120" height="100%" dg="async" loadg="lazy" image-align="left" class="css-1l0u1 e6pr2lz0" /><span class="css-8lle59 e6pr2lz1">6 Ways to Be a Better LGBTQ Ally</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></a></li><li class="css-1b7ml99 e6pr2lz2"><a href="/entertament/g30273765/lgbtq-weddg-photos/" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="31 Movg LGBTQ Weddg Photos" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Edorial Lks" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" class="css-1bn7a5e e1c1bym14"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p0"></span><img src="" alt="Sparkler, People, Event, Crowd, Ceremony, Mil, Performance, Tradn, Party supply, " tle="Sparkler, People, Event, Crowd, Ceremony, Mil, Performance, Tradn, Party supply, " width="120" height="100%" dg="async" loadg="lazy" image-align="left" class="css-1l0u1 e6pr2lz0" /><span class="css-8lle59 e6pr2lz1">31 Movg LGBTQ Weddg Photos</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></a></li><li class="css-1b7ml99 e6pr2lz2"><a href="/entertament/books/a30678624/gay-like-me-richie-jackson-g-out-experience/" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn=""Gay Like Me" Author Richie Jackson on Comg Out" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Edorial Lks" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" class="css-1bn7a5e e1c1bym14"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p0"></span><img src="" alt="People, Child, Fun, Event, Fay, Leisure, Vatn, Se, " tle="People, Child, Fun, Event, Fay, Leisure, Vatn, Se, " width="120" height="100%" dg="async" loadg="lazy" image-align="left" class="css-1l0u1 e6pr2lz0" /><span class="css-8lle59 e6pr2lz1">"Gay Like Me" Author Richie Jackson on Comg Out</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></a></li></ul></asi></div><p data-no-id="17" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">She then expands on her relign. “Actually, I’ll be hont. I’ve had a long nversatn wh my pastor at the church that I’m a member of. And I won’t budge about my beliefs at all. I’m not dog . You know, those are my kids. I’ll fight tooth and nail for them. Even beyond that, the troubled kids. I’m there to be your advote, and I’m there to make you a better person.”</p><p data-no-id="18" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">It be evint the seri that Aldama is a champn for her stunt-athlet no matter how they intify and regardls of her own views. She stands as an example of what means to be a <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="real ally of the LGBTQ+ muny" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">real ally of the LGBTQ+ muny</a>, to see another person for who they are and not judge them by their mannerisms or the person they love. And while she tells that the Corsina muny “lov the cheerlears” wholeheartedly, acceptance so often <em> only</em> after alli like Aldama are strong enough to stand up to hate and fend LGBTQ+ young adults who stggle plac like small-town Texas.</p><p data-no-id="19" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">We spoke wh Aldama to get a better sense of why she so adamantly fends her cheerlears—her “kids”—and how she learned to be so acceptg.</p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="20" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="1" tle="1" loadg="lazy" width="3600" height="2025" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-bdkd9 e6iqd2">Courty of Netflix</span></figptn></div></div></div><style data-emotn="css 1m6q79k">{font-fay:Juana,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:normal;letter-spacg:-0.005em;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.875rem;le-height:1.1;}}@media(max-width: 64rem){{font-size:2.125rem;le-height:1.1;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{marg-top:1.875rem;marg-bottom:1.875rem;font-size:2.375rem;le-height:1.1;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:2.625rem;le-height:1.1;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}</style><h2 data-no-id="21" class="body-h2 css-1m6q79k et3p2gv0"><strong>Like Ellen said, the entire untry is talkg about <em>Cheer. </em>What do you thk of the show’s succs—and of that $20,000 check?</strong></h2><p data-no-id="22" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">We’re blown away. We had no ia that the whole world was gonna watch . We filmed this last year and we thought we were jt filmg a cheer documentary and that the cheer muny would jt want to watch . Of urse, when I first saw I was so emotnal. It was so touchg and spirg and I still didn’t realize, even after I’d seen , that would be so impactful to so many people—that they uld relate even if they’d never cheered before. It’s been a whirlwd and we’re tryg to keep our heads above water. Of urse, the $20,000 is amazg. The llege pays for most of our trip, but we do have to fundraise a ltle b of money. That’ll fely help. I thk we might be able to eat an appetizer or somethg.</p><div data-ad-exclu class="css-8c6v ehha8ut0">This ntent is imported om youTube. 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