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Local Schools Ahead Of Trans person Curve
As school districts across the country arrange to begin another college year, many are struggling with how to accommodate transgender students in the wake of conflicting federal guidelines and circuit court rulings. While the issue appears bound for the U.S. Supreme Court, many northern Michigan schools aren’t waiting to begin examining their own policies.
T.J. Mackey, vice president for student affairs and executive dean at Interlochen Center for the Arts, says the school has undergone “an evolution” in protocol affecting transgender students over the last decade. “It started ten years ago with a student who was a camper,” says Mackey. “We received a phone call or email (from the family) asking us what we would do. Our first response was, ‘That’s a excellent question.’ Once we were asked the question, we needed to get to work as an institution.”
Mackey says Interlochen’s administration focused on two key fronts when considering how best to accommodate LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) students and campers on campus.
“First, there are the pragmatic
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WillemS1
<p>Hey guys,
As many of you may know I am a happy freshman at NMH this year, and am excited to see what my BS experience gives me these next several years. What you may not know about me is that I am also an openly male lover student. I’ve found that NMH is a very accepting school, and while the gay community here is not crazy colossal it’s very good for a school of this size. NMH is a very liberal/artsy type of school, so I was not extremely surprised by how great the environment here is about these issues (even our Dean of Students is a lesbian!), but I am really interested in how other schools treat and recognize the LGBT collective. I’d love to listen everyone’s thoughts on the subject!
Thanks
Willem</p>
ChoatieMom2
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WillemS3
<p>I’ve actually seen that before! Theres this cool facebook group called “I was/am gay in an elite prep school”, and people post some awesome stuff! I hav
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Pride art creates Homosexual visibility in rural northern Michigan
Pride month creates visibility and community for people on a spectrum of sexuality.
And now, art exhibits are showing up in rural communities in Northern Michigan to carry people together.
This experience is audio reactive. Take a minute to let it out.
Those are some of the first words that appear when you come in the art exhibit at the Farm Club.
It’s a storage container. It’s dusky inside with a projector that lights up alabaster text on a dark background with phrases you are encouraged to tell out loud.
“I am proud.”
A rainbow of color echoes out from the words in front of you. The louder you are, the more color you can see.
“I can execute this!”
A local production firm set up the projector and effects inside, while Heather Spooner painted the outside with geometric shapes and colors from the Diversity Pride flag.
This is one of three interactive storage container art exhibits that Up North Pride is putting on with this year's theme of “Catharsis”.
In the middle of the mural, there is the white outline of a cicada.
“As a cicada can shed its shell,” says Spooner, “My want for this exhibit i
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