Gay characters the post-Stonewall era go a lot wir and eper than ‘Will & Grace’ and ‘Ellen.’
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LBGTQ TV: A HISTORY OF GAY CHARACTERS, OM STONEWALL TO ‘BATWOMAN’
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2013 BMCC Valedictorian, Tabha Rko-Gay. It’s hard to believe that Tabha Rko-Gay, a iendly stunt who tends to se when she speaks, was ever bashful. Rko-Gay grew up Texas and Pennsylvania before movg to New York her teens to dance profsnally wh the New York Cy Ballet.
Seekg change, and the opportuny to revent herself, Rko-Gay cid to give llege a try. Rko-Gay creds BMCC for helpg her shed her shell. While attendg the School of Amerin Ballet as a teenager, Rko-Gay was home-schooled by her parents, pletg high school 2005.
Bee she was home-schooled, BMCC was the very first place Rko-Gay ever entered a classroom. You have a adle to meet and mt be prepared to jt ‘get out there’ and do , ” says Rko-Gay, a diligent note-taker who enjoys nductg lerary rearch.
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Hopg to fly unr the radar at BMCC, Rko-Gay says: “I didn’t want people to know about my dance background and thk, ‘Oh, look, there go the ballera.
However, one person—English Profsor Jam Tolan—wouldn’t allow Rko-Gay to jt be “average. Rko-Gay was a stunt Tolan’s Introductn to Lerature and Honors Composn urs. “He enuraged me to tell real stori my wrg; not to generalize or nceal anythg, ” says Rko-Gay.
Says Tolan, of Rko-Gay: “In twenty-five years of llege teachg, I have never had a stunt flower as dramatilly and emphatilly as Tabha.