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Pride weekend festivities offered fun for all The AIDS Memorial Pathway and Taking B(l)ack Pride were Pride highlights
AMP Project Manager Jason Plourde – Photo by Renee Raketty
see PRIDE page 6
1,001 great films (part 5) Life’s Labyrinth, or how one cinematic Sarah leads to another (just without the “h”)
Victory for Trans students
SCOTUS will not hear school board’s appeal of bathroom case
Jennifer Connelly as Sarah in Labyrinth – Photo courtesy of TriStar Pictures
by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN Staff Writer When I was no older than seven or eight, I spent an entire summer at my grandparents’ farm just outside of Tenino. My grandfather coached an elite women’s fastpitch softball team. I’d hang out with the players, basically becoming their de facto mascot, finding ways to convince them to put my hair in pigtails or
paint my fingernails the same shade of green as their uniforms. My favorite player was a woman named Sarah. She had a giant mane of blonde hair that she’d whip around like a weapon whenever she made a play at shortstop. She was just an all-around ferocious presence who took no prisoners on the field but was also
see 1,001 GREAT FILMS page 10
Gavin Grimm – Photo by Scout Tufankjian / ACLU
by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer The US Supreme Court has decided not to hear a Virginia school board’s appeal of a case finding that Trans students should use restrooms that correspond to their gender identities. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented from the decision, writing
that they found sufficient grounds for the high court to take the case. The six-year-old case centered on Gavin Grimm, who in 2015 sued his school district for the right to use boys’ restrooms in his high school. The principal at first gave him permission to use the boys’ bathroom, but the
see SCOTUS page 21