Kathryn Gay | Mount Holyoke College

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  FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, TERSEX, AND QUEER ALUMNAE/ALUMNI, STUNTS, FACULTY AND STAFF OF

I knew that women’s lleg were nsired by some to be “gay schools. I bought my green griff T-shirt, joed the admted stunts’ Facebook group, and slowly told my high school classmat and my iends om summer mp that I was gay.

”In the letter, she scribed a Friday night, two years prr, when she first me out as gay to a man om Amherst. ”Several members agreed that Mount Holyoke’s gay muny — which the Astronomer scribed as “so far unrground that ’s like diggg for oil” — was fally surfacg. “I remembergog to the bank town to open the checkg acunt for the gay support group and my very straight roommate me wh me as an ally.

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” The parody anizatn hung posters of straight people havg sex, a jab at the LBA’s marketg mpaign for an upg dance, and chalked homophobic msag, cludg “Dyk leave” near the Blanchard post office. 29 article“Homophobic cint ntroversy” scribed how the Women’s Sexualy Discsn Group (which was not associated wh the LBA) held an open fom rponse to the attack. “Gay issu were a thg, ” she said, “but not trans issu, not even gay marriage.

”“Maybe would have happened eventually that year, ” said Barr about the formatn of the first Gay support group, “bee of all the other nversatns that were gog on about polics… but my memory of is that was totally spired by that [letter]. From a Simmons stunt:“There are many different anizatns, like the Black Stunt Organizatn, Hillel, and the Gay-Straight Alliance that allow the stunts to e together and host events wh other anizatns that une the muny. As a gay stunt, I fd that has been very easy to assiate to the rt of the stunt body wh virtually no discrimatn of any sort.

From a Reed stunt:“I wanted a school where I uld stretch myself amilly, meet weird and wonrful people, and be openly gay.

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