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Freshman Rainier Neuwirth-Deutsch poses with a gay pride flag wrapped around their waistband while getting ready for the parade to begin. They covered their outfit with rainbows from head to toe. “[The LGBTQ+ community] is so welcoming, you never feel out of place,” Neuwirth-Deutsch said.

Freshman Rainier Neuwirth-Deutsch’s experience and advice on coming out

Gabriella Badami, Convergence Journalism Writer December 10, 2019

“I've known since I was really little. I've just never had an attraction to guys. I've never thought of dating guys. Then I found out there was a word for that in fifth grade.” Freshman Rainier...

Ryan O'Conner is a junior at West High.

What is it like to be me?

Katie Spillman, Convergent Media Writer December 22, 2016
The hardest part of coming out is all the time before coming out because you're nervous, and you have no idea what's going to happen.
Senior Abby Larsen and sophomore Kennedy Brown pose in the library with the app, Whisper. The app has over 87 users from West so far.  “I think most of the time when people first hear about it they think it’s mostly for negative things because that’s how most anonymous apps work. But on Whisper, there is a place for just our school. That’s where I am most of the time. Everywhere else, there are mean comments, but mostly at our school it’s just positive things,” Brown said.

Anonymous app Whisper: safe space or cyberbullying?

Kathryn Harter, Multimedia Editor March 29, 2016
Another anonymous outlet for students... is it a force of good or evil this time?
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.
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