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The Official Student News Site of Parkway West High

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Junior Gabi Badami smiles, expressing with pride in her bisexuality. Badami says she has struggled with her identity since elementary school, so she channels her struggles into artwork and goals for her future. “I’m proud of who I am, confident in who I want to be and excited for what I know I can do,” Badami said.

Coloring the rainbow

Makinsey Drake, Staff Writer May 10, 2022

Since beginning her self-exploration journey in middle school, junior Gabi Badami has used art as an outlet to express the struggles of being an LGBTQ teen. Badami aims for her work is to emphasize pride...

Posing in front of the transgender and gay flag, freshman Leslie Seay wears their "they/them" hat.

Leslie Seay overcomes the struggles of being fluid

Tony Morse, Convergent Media Writer January 31, 2017
Freshman Leslie Seay is a girl, boy, both, and none at the same time. In other words, Seay is genderfluid, a gender identification where the individual feels as though their gender is constantly changing.
Morse stands in front of the international transgender flag. "There are a lot of people in this school and in a lot of places that don’t like me," Morse said. "There are people that just don’t understand it, but if you don’t understand it, it isn’t an excuse to be mean to people."

The battle to become a man

Sydney Kinzy, Productions Editor-in-Chief September 29, 2016

Freshman Tony Morse is a huge alternative music fan and absolutely loves animals. He is a boy full of hopes and dreams of fully transforming into his true self. The only difference separating him from...

The new curriculum will introduce a new variety of topics including LGBTQ identities.

Approved sex education curriculum causes controversy

Sydney Kinzy, Features Editor April 28, 2016
It has been over a month since the new sex ed curriculum was passed, but controversy has sparked into a possible lawsuit.

Parkway approves new Healthy Relationships and Sexual Health Curriculum

Betsy Wait, Managing Editor-in-Chief / EiC Intern March 11, 2016
After months of turmoil, petitions, heated debates, the Parkway School Board of Education reached a decision regarding the Healthy Relationships and Sexual Health Curriculum, passing the material in a 4-3 vote.
Freshman Quinn Licata sits in front of the mission statement for West High's GSA.

LGBT Spotlight: New Rights

Nell Jaskowiak, Staff Writer October 12, 2015
More than 200,000 people converged in downtown St. Louis to celebrate one of the largest PrideFests in the country on June 26-28.

AJ McNamee wins a 20 Under 20 award

Allison Wills, Staff Writer April 28, 2015

Junior Asher McNamee, president of West’s Gay/Straight Alliance (GSA), was nominated and then awarded the 20 Under 20 Award by the Missouri GSA. “It’s for twenty influential people that are under...

Understanding Indiana’s “Religious Freedom Restoration” bill

Emily Dickson, Staff Writer April 14, 2015

In the past few weeks alone, Apple has pulled out of the Big Data conference scheduled for the end of April in Indiana, the NCAA Mid-American Conference has announced a boycott all events and championships...

Fixing society for Leelah Alcorn

Sydney Kinzy, Features Editor January 21, 2015
After a transgender teen commits suicide, students want to bring awareness to the school to prevent future deaths.
Math teacher Patrick Mooney and his partner Greg Lyon.

Teacher Spotlight: Patrick Mooney

Ritoma Ganguly, Staff Writers / News Editor December 11, 2014
At age 10 Mooney realized he had a different sexual orientation, but did not come out until age 21.
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