Freshman year, Mark Mercier was sitting at the leftmost table on the first floor of CHS. The new school still felt foreign. At once, he felt a twinge of dread and excitement; he gets the same feeling whenever...
Seven years ago, Susan King* decided she was too tired to stay in the closet at her job.
In her previous place of work, King felt as though she had to hide her sexual orientation to keep healthy relationships...
Last year, I ran a series called Every Part of Me, which documented the coming out stories of various LGBTQIA+ students and teachers at CHS. By the spring, it had died down: I had reservations about the...
Sophia Muraski’s family had a running joke to see how long they could go without telling her sister, Mariah, that she was pansexual.
Muraski had came out to her mother and her three sisters almost...
Ada Janson* sat in her grandmother’s basement with her extended family, talking with her cousin about how odd the grade below her was, with their dyed hair and their anime. Her cousin said, “Two of...
Chloe Root was walking down a public street on the way back from reading a poem for Pride Month in Providence, Rhode Island the last time she called a “dyke”. A group of guys pulled up next to her...
Shannon Thompson was sitting in the car with her mother and her favorite soup, a mushroom beef barley from Zingerman’s, waiting to leave the parking lot and go in to choir practice, when she looked at...
