Eli Rios Reyes, Staff Reporter
The LGBTQ+ community has a variety of sexualities, allowing individuals to feel like they have a place to belong, even to those that are still questioning their identity.
One example of this within the Rancho Cucamonga High School Campus was The Gay Straight Alliance Club, which provided the LGBTQ+ and straight individual an opportunity to better understand each others sexual orientation and their differences.
Although it was discontinued from Rancho Cucamonga High School campus, it allowed students to feel supported and empowered alliances with each other. Despite the fact that our campus, alongside our generation, has made great milestones to prevent bigotry towards the LGBTQ+ community, there is still prejudice actions being made around the world.
Kofi Davis, the past president and founder of this club, emphasized how important the support of straight peers makes, and how it has an impact on LGBTQ+ students. He expresses, “The support of straight peers is honestly so important. It shows a true alliance between the two sides. Having straight friends advocate for you is honestly the best thing ever”.
Despite the fact of having influencers like Kofi Davis, who consistintly want a change from any type of discrimination, there are people who challenge these ideas since their contrasting viewpoints on the LGBTQ+ community are negitive.
The Independent News, claims that there are a total of 74 countries where same-sex sexual contact, is a criminal offense and 13 countries where it’s punishable by death (Fenton). Hardships like this take away the freedom of the LGBT+ community to express themselves in certain places, including their own neighborhood.
The Human Rights Campaign statistics states this lack of individualism by explaining how “4 in 10 of LGBT+ youth (40%) say the community in which they live is not accepting of the LGBTQ+”.
Even with these high statistics, our community here on our Rancho Cucamonga campus seems to be very supportive since our community itself is already so diverse.
Emma, an LGBTQ+ student attending our Rancho Cucamonga Campus, states, “ Our school is very accepting of lgbtq, an amazing example of this is my girlfriend’s teachers. We went to Kingsball together and my girlfriend’s teachers asked us to put our picture on their wall as they were so proud of us for being who we are. They supported us when no one else did, [My] teachers’ love for everyone on this campus is immense and has always made me feel at home”.
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