Pride Month

June is Pride Month, giving the Fort Vancouver High School community a chance to celebrate sexuality in all its many forms.

Pride Month traces its origins back to the LGBTQ+ community’s long history of resilience and activism. The catalyst for the modern Pride movement was the Stonewall Uprising in June 1969, when LGBTQ+ individuals in New York City resisted police harassment at the Stonewall Inn. This event sparked a wave of protests, marking a turning point in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights. The following year, on June 28, 1970, the first Pride March took place in New York City to commemorate the Stonewall Uprising. Since then, Pride Month has grown into a global celebration of diversity, inclusion, and the ongoing struggle for LGBTQ+ equality.

Pride Month

by Isabel Laib

Pride Month is upon us and that means everyone will be celebrating themselves. People are going to be spreading awareness to who they are and that may include what their sexuality or gender may be. It can be really confusing, but I’m happy to help!

In this list I’ll be going over some sexualities and genders and telling you what they mean. Please remember to be respectful, and to never assume or misgender or deadname people.

Gay: Someone who identifies as a male and is interested in men.

Lesbian: Someone who identifies as a female and is interested in women.

Bisexual: Someone who loves both genders.

Asexual: Someone who does not feel sexual attraction.

Aromantic: Someone who does not feel romantic attraction.

Pansexual: Someone who is attracted to every gender without preference.

Omnisexual: Someone who is attracted to every gender with preference.

Non-Binary: Someone who identifies as no gender.

Genderfluid: The gender identity where you have your biological gender assignment and you either feel like one gender or the other. It is an interchangeable identity.

Transgender: Did not identify with birth gender and switched to another gender.

Demisexual: Must have a close connection with another before feeling sexally attracted to them.

Demiromantic: Must have a close connection before feeling romantically attracted to someone.

Demi-Girl: Someone who identifies as both non-binary and a girl.

Demi-Boy: Someone who identifies as both non-binary and a boy.

Student Voices by Alex Sweeten

We interviewed a few students and here is THEIR opinion on PRIDE MONTH:

Theo W, 9th grade says “Pride month is an amazing thing that should exist. It makes me feel especially supported to have a WHOLE month dedicated to pride month!!!!”

Sadie M, 9th Grade says this “I love it!! It makes me so happy!!!”

Michael H, 9th grade, says this with an optimistic attitude “It’s cool. I don’t really have any-sort of grudge with pride month.”

Victoria G, 9th grade, says this with a proud aura “I AM ONE WITH THE GAYS!!”

Anthoni V, 9th grade gave this open statement “You do you.”

Back on April 19th, the Fort photography/video department got a unique opportunity. We could go and visit the KGW office and center in Portland! I got to go, and it was a very fun experience. There is a lot I want to share with you all.

First we got to see where they record breaking news and the weather. This room was very cool to be in, and as you can see at the top, there are lights everywhere. In this room they have cameras that can be coded to move across the room automatically with certain news events, and they have the big monitor behind them and the weather monitor on the right to show things.

After that, we went and got to see the set for a show produced by KGW called “Hello Rose City.” You can see the set below. It has a very home type vibe to it, and it was a very interesting scene. There were TV’s