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Editor’s Note: The names of Rachel Clary’s children have been changed to respect their privacy.

Rachel Clary begins every weekday morning with a shower before preparing in front of a mirror. She shaves, puts on makeup and fixes her hair. Before facing the world each day, she first comes face-to-face with herself.

For many years, it was Robert’s face looking back from that mirror.

But Rachel, 33, has been seeing more of herself since getting back on her transition medications in September and less of Robert, the troubled man some would prefer she still see.

She has noticed less muscle mass and body hair while watching her confidence grow, her old burdened weariness swapped for a positive outlook, much like the wardrobe of buttonups and slacks she traded for dresses and heels.

“Best way to explain it is I am getting rid of all the bad feelings I’ve had towards myself,” Rachel said. “Not everyone’s going to agree with it, but I’m not worried about that any longer.

“I am very proud of who I am ’cause it hurts so much holding onto all of this, really.”

Much has changed for Rachel, a human resource assistant at Oklahoma State University, since she committed to transitioning. Her identity, for one, is different,

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Rachel Clary, a human resource assistant at Oklahoma State University, first came out as transgender in September 2014.

and she replaced substance abuse with testosterone blockers and estrogen.

She inched out of the closet in a monthslong process starting three years ago, telling only a few before sharing her secret slowly with the wider world.

Come January, her deepest secret was hardly a mystery any longer. Her newest chapter got a stamp of finality with a December email: “As most know, I came out last year as transgender, and the past year has been a planning period,” she wrote.

“Effective January 3, I will return to work as Rachel and will use female pronouns.”

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The email went out across the OSU campus, alerting administrators who forwarded the message to their departments’ faculty and staff.

The simple message swept away any ideas Rachel would waver in her transition like in the past.

Employees in the HR office and beyond in Whitehurst were aware of their transgender coworker, but many were unsure of her position going forward.

Joy MacDonald, an OSU payroll services accountant and close friend of Rachel, said Rachel has been more medically proactive in continuing her transition, which

encourages her to stay on the right track.

“She has to, I think, for herself, for her life,” MacDonald said. “I think this time she’s just finally accepted, ‘This is who I am.

This is who I have to be.’”

Now, there was no question Rachel was here to stay.

She was openly the person once shoved in the closet and concealed with drugs, alcohol and pain.

It took 31 years for Rachel to finally emerge. But long before, she had to discover who she was meant to become.

‘Convincing People’

Robert Clary was born in

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1983 in Tulsa. He grew up in Stillwater in what Rachel described as a normal childhood, attending the local school system and participating in sports like many other boys.

Back then, Robert could often be found playing pickup games of roller hockey in neighborhood streets or at the old tennis courts by Boomer Lake.

He was laid back, cocky, eager to fit in and desperate for everyone to know he was the typical “guy.”

“I would do and say the crudest things just so that I could convince people,” Rachel said. “I did a really good job of it, convincing

people.”

Robert also had an edge. He started smoking marijuana frequently in high school and was often willing to take risks of bodily injury.

Playing roller hockey was not only a hobby but also a chance to feel physical pain.

The pain and drugs, which he later replaced with booze, served as a way to mask Robert’s inner feelings. He had been thinking of things for years he knew he “wasn’t supposed to want as a boy.”

Robert saw the way women dressed, acted and expressed emotion, and he identified more with feminine characteristics than those that suited his gender.

By 14, he was able to put a name to those feelings after an internet search. Once he was about 20, he knew exactly what – and who – he was.

Robert was transgender, and he buried it.

“The whole mental aspect towards myself that I had growing up was terrible,” Rachel said. “If it caused any sort of self-harm, I would do it. I took risks that I shouldn’t have taken. I did all kinds of drugs. I drank. I did stupid things, really, trying to deal with this.”

In fear of anyone discovering his secret, he masked his inner desires. No one noticed his heightening anxiety when he passed by the women’s section of clothing stores. Nobody knew the real reason he used drugs or drank so heavily.

Neither his first wife nor his second, and certainly none of his four children,

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knew Robert, deep down, was destined to be Rachel.

The feelings, though, never went away, no matter what substance he used to numb them.

Coming out

By 31, Robert had been through two divorces and had four children. He and a serious girlfriend at the time were thinking about getting married, despite Robert’s difficulty finding enough peace to settle down.

The drinking continued, though. He had overcome a two-year span in which he was on the bottle nearly every day, but his drinking afterward became sporadic, some days under control and other times not. The longing for womanhood was ever-present, bearing down on his shoulders and racing through his mind. Rachel was knocking on the closet door.

Robert grew distant, upsetting his girlfriend. She couldn’t understand what weighed on him so terribly. By September 2014, he couldn’t hide the truth anymore.

“I had to eventually tell her,” Rachel said. “So I told her, ‘I’m transgender,’ and that pretty much ended the relationship right there.”

Just like that, the words were out in the open, and a burden lifted off Robert’s shoulders. Despite the pain of losing a future fiancée, his admission was a relief, a first step down the road to selfacceptance.

The journey, though, was far from over and certainly never easy.

He came out to his immediate family in the following weeks, a part of the story

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Rachel Clary, left, and friend and former roommate Joy MacDonald attended the Oklahoma City Women’s March in January.

it, sharing the truth with more and more groups until it was general knowledge by June 2015, when Robert started going by Rachel.

I am very proud But past challenges didn’t disappear as new of who I am problems piled on. ’cause it hurts so Rachel’s relationship with her family had much holding completely changed. onto all of this, Lifelong friendships disappeared. Rachel’s really.” uniqueness was almost tangible in her tradiRachel Clary tional Oklahoma town.

OSU Staff member Old connections grew cold, and stares followed everywhere in public.

Senior clinical Rachel prefers to keep private. counselor Joseph Dunnigan, He talked with a counselor for months before coming of OSU University Counselout publicly. He built up to ing Services, coordinates the

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Safe Zone training program on campus to educate faculty and staff on LGBT issues and resources. He said having little experience or education on these topics leads some people to reject a transgender person’s identity.

“I think a lot of people, they may react negatively not always because they’re awful people or they’re going to be discriminatory, but there’s that lack of knowledge,” Dunnigan said. “I think when we get something that just doesn’t fit with our understanding of the world, it can be threatening, it can be scary, and that’s where you see that pushback.”

Realizing struggles

Rachel’s most difficult challenge of all, though, was

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with her four children: Jessica, Ashley, Jacob and Carly.

Carly, 3, doesn’t know her father is now Rachel. Her mother will decide when to tell her about the change.

The same cannot be said for Rachel’s three older children.

The news hit Jessica, then 10, the hardest when she found out in March 2015. She and her dad were inseparable, he being the one she wanted to run to even after her parents had split up and she moved to a different town with her mother. The revelation of her dad’s gender identity hurt and confused her, Rachel said.

“I’m not going to lie to you,” Rachel told Jessica. “It’s wrong for me to sit here and tell you to be who you are if I can’t do the same.”

The truth created a harsh reality for Jessica, now 12, one she wanted to protect her younger sister Ashley from.

She didn’t want Ashley to experience the same pain and confusion she had. But Rachel told Ashley about her transition a few months later.

“I told (Jessica), ‘I haven’t lied to you. I’m not lying to her. There’s no reason that needs to happen,’” Rachel said. “It really upset her. That was our last conversation.”

They haven’t spoken in almost two years.

Rachel’s son, 6-year-old Jacob, has trouble understanding Rachel’s transition, as well. Some days he’s accepting but other times struggles to wrap his mind around a concept many adults don’t fully grasp.

The two get to talk over the phone occasionally – opportunities in which Rachel prefers to focus the conversation on her son. Why talk about her transition when they could laugh together?

Contact between Rachel and her children is limited, as handling the truth has been as complicated for the oldest three as it was for their father for many years. Once they’re old enough to make their own decisions, the chance for a closer relationship will be there, depending on what choice each one makes.

“It’s something that they’re going to have to deal with,” Rachel said. “I feel bad for them because it is hard. I can only imagine how hard it is for them.”

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The Oklahoma State University family will get a little more fabulous Thursday night.

The Student Union Activities Board will host its 11th Dragonfly show as part of the school’s Pride Week festivities.

This year’s theme will be “Drag Me to the Circus” with tickets costing $5 before the event and $7 at the door.

The competition is an annual drag show that donates cash proceeds to Freedom Oklahoma, a nonprofit organization that aims to “secure full equality and legal protections for LGTBQ Oklahomans through public education, advocacy, coalition building, and individual empowerment,” according to its website.

Troy Stevenson, Freedom Oklahoma’s executive director, will serve as one of the three judges for this year’s Dragonfly.

He said the partnership is in its fifth year and raises

DragonfLY What: Drag show When: 7 p.m. Thursday Where: Student Union Theater Tickets: $5 at SUAB.okstate.edu, $7 at the door

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Carter Zane Paige performs during last year’s Dragonfly where he won the drag king title.

between $2,000-3,000 yearly.

Stevenson said though Stillwater is an unexpected place to have such a large drag event, Dragonfly has been sold out each of the four years he has been to the show.

“We look forward to it every year, and we’ve always been impressed that Oklahoma State puts an event like that on,”

Stevenson said. “When you’ve got an event like this, especially in Stillwater, I think it brings even more awareness, and it gives a safe space for LGBTQ students at Oklahoma State and the community in Stillwater.”

Oliver Robin Ivy, or “Carter Zane Paige” as he is known in the drag world, won the drag king portion of Dragonfly’s

2016 competition.

Although the main products of the show are bragging rights for winners and donations, there are more benefits to the show than are evident to the audience.

As a transgender man who came out about two years ago, Ivy said Dragonfly is a great outlet for people dealing with LGBT-related fears.

“I definitely think that it helps the queer kids at OSU,” Ivy said.

“Maybe this is the first time they’ve been out in the community since they moved out of their parents’ house and they couldn’t be themselves at home.”

Ivy has competed in drag shows since he was 16. Other than Dragonfly, he has won Mister OYP USofA, a pageant the Openarms Youth Project hosted, and competed in other drag shows that help him connect with the drag community.

Ivy said he helped other gay and trans students get ready for the competition by teaching them how to do their drag makeup and talking them into using nervousness to their benefit.

“It’s good to be around other gay culture, and I think everyone who’s queer should experience something like it,” Ivy said. “It’s kind of like a gay rite of passage, I guess. Like are you really queer if you’ve never been to a drag show?”

Many Stillwater community members attend Dragonfly to watch the students compete, but a big part of the show includes performances by professional drag queens from outside Stillwater.

Carmen Deveraux, former Miss Gay Oklahoma America 2015, will serve as the emcee for the fourth year. This will be Deveraux’s 10th year performing at the event alongside other professional drag queens, such as Luxx Bently, Maria Isabel, and Roxie Hart, the “Danish Tart” from Copenhagen, Denmark.

Dragonfly gives OSU and Northern Oklahoma College students a way to connect to the drag community, which Ivy refers to as his “chosen family.”

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“A lot of my family didn’t talk to me for a long time,” Ivy said. “They were like, ‘We love you, but we can’t accept you because that’s a sin. We still want you around, but you’re just not gonna be respected.’

“But blood doesn’t make you family; loyalty does.”

Dragonfly is only a part of Pride Week, a university event designed to help the LGBT family celebrate its diversity.

“Dragonfly easily fits within Pride Week because of the culture that it relates to,” SUAB Adviser Kayla Loper said. “Also, being able to benefit something that gives back to that community was important to us.”

This will be the first year the judges will vote for superlatives rather than all-around winners of the competition, Loper said. Superlatives could be awards such as best hair, best makeup and best dance moves.

Sierra Gilkey, administrative coordinator for SUAB, said Dragonfly will draw a large crowd because it’s one of the organization’s biggest events every year.

SUAB will provide buckets during the show for cash donations to Freedom

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Frida ... Frida Beast dances during Dragonfly in 2016. She won with her perfomance of The Black Eyed Peas’ “My Humps.”

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it’s not just an event,” Gilkey said. “It’s not like people think, ‘They’re just trying to put this out there and make money.’ We do wanna make a benefit to the community and give money back to it and do something good.”

Aubrie Bowlan is a strategic communications junior from Edmond. She can be reached at entertainment.ed@ocolly.com.

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for gender transition surgeries was years away.

She became depressed and started cutting her arm. In search of an escape, Rachel attempted suicide.

“It was just one of those things that it just hit me one day,” she said. “After that, I knew I had to get out of here.

Otherwise, I wasn’t going to live.”

Rachel was angry.

She wanted to get out of Oklahoma, away from the judgmental looks and negativity. So in October 2015, she resigned from her job at OSU, where she had worked since 2012, and moved to the Bay Area of California.

Living there was a relief.

No one stared at her when she walked down the street.

Nobody cared, frankly, whether she was born a man or a woman. And it was good to put more than 1,500 miles between herself and Stillwater.

Life there wasn’t sustainable, though, as Rachel struggled to find a job. A month later, she decided to come back to Oklahoma and try something new.

Finding a path

“Maybe I really don’t need to transition,” she thought.

Rachel convinced herself life might be better pretending to be Robert again. She could present as a man at work and be a woman at home. It would be easier anyway for Robert to find a job than mid-transition Rachel.

While looking for work, she moved in with MacDonald for about three months.

MacDonald hadn’t met Rachel until after she came out as transgender at OSU and never saw Rachel portray

anything but her true self.

“Robert was always trying to suppress that, and it just made him a big jerk ’cause he’s miserable all the time,” MacDonald said. “When you’re miserable, then you get angry, and you just take it out on the people around you and yourself.”

Rachel wasn’t accustomed to being in the closet after living openly for almost a year. Hiding her gender identity was unbearable, and it cast a dark cloud over her life again.

She quit taking transition medication and in February 2016 started a job in Stillwater, showing up for work every day as Robert.

Meanwhile, her spirit started to crumble.

Rachel experienced anger outbursts, anxiety and deepening depression. She felt physically sick at work from the fear of someone discovering her secret. Old selfdestructive habits returned as she forced herself to stop sleeping until passing out in a cold sweat.

By June, her worsening condition came to a head. In a day and a half, she took 3045 pills of prescribed anxiety medication and lost all memory of the days before and after, despite functioning consciously at the time.

That’s when MacDonald stepped in before the situation got any worse.

“You need to get back on track and you need to transition because you are not well,” MacDonald said to her. “You are a terrible person whenever you’re like this. You need to transition because we all like you better that way.”

Rachel agreed and decided to make a change. A job

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opened up in July at the OSU Human Resources office, and Rachel jumped at the chance to work at the university again. She had already come out and presented as a woman there before, so she looked forward to being herself at work.

She started taking testosterone blockers again in September and has since made appointments with an endocrinologist to safely take additional hormone therapy medications. Rachel has created a plan for the future surgeries she would like to have to make a full transition.

Now, there’s a clear path ahead. Despite ongoing difficulties, the future seems brighter and full of more possibilities for Rachel. She looks forward to finding a long-lasting relationship with a woman, as her sexual orientation did not change when she transitioned.

Most of all, she predicts more happy days in the open instead of dark ones spent in the closet. With every hormone pill and surgery, she can look forward to fulfilling more of who she is. She can wipe the fog off her mirror and see the right face peeking through. But the change in physical appearance is secondary to the development Rachel has felt on the inside.

“As I’ve progressed further along, my image of myself has gotten better,” she said. “I feel that no matter how I look, I’m that person now.”

Nuria Martinez-Keel is a multimedia journalism senior from Tulsa. She can be reached at news.ed@ocolly.com.

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Students, stillwater residents describe what it’s like to be gay Lo r i Cov ey S ta ff Repo rter @ oco lly

Wearing dramatic cateye makeup, bright red lipstick, 7-inch heels and a flowing black blouse, 6-foot-2 bald Ami Rhetto turns heads everywhere he goes.

What people don’t realize is Ami Rhetto is a man.

Chris Rinke, 26, is a five-year employee at Olive Garden and doubles as a drag queen.

He wears button-downs and slacks to his day job because he’s in training to become a manager; at night, he prefers dresses

and the highest heels his size 13.5 foot can fit.

Ami Rhetto is Rinke’s nightlife and drag queen alter ego.

“A lot of people like to come feel my breasts when I’m in drag,” Rinke said. “I’ve been hit on by my fair share of straight men who mistake me for a woman, but like, even though I’m in woman’s clothes and makeup, I’m still clearly a bald man.”

Rinke has been frequenting Stonewall, a bar in Stillwater, for three years. He goes in on his days off to kick his feet up and order his

favorite drink, an Amaretto Sour. Rinke said after weeks of sipping his usual, he decided it was fitting to name his drag self after it.

Rinke said “straight white men” usually mock him and use “she/ her” pronouns while he’s dressed as Rhetto. Rinke said this offends him because even in women’s clothes, he identifies as a man and considers his pronouns “he/him.”

“It’s funny because it’s usually small men who push me too far,” Rinke said. “Like come on, I’m 6-foot-2-inches; you aren’t going to win

against me.”

Rinke said at times, he faces persecution in Stillwater because he loves himself and is not afraid to crossdress.

For Drake Stafford, a cheerleader at Oklahoma State University, the experience of being gay is different.

“I’m fortunate,” Stafford said. “I look straight, and beside the fact that I’m a cheerleader, I don’t put my sexuality in people’s faces. It’s a small part of who I am, no more significant than me having brown hair.”

Stafford said he has never experienced nega-

tivity because the community that surrounds him is great. He said he has heard stories of friends being beaten up in bars for their sexuality but he is fortunate to never deal with anything so severe. Stafford said he thinks people in Stillwater pretend they don’t care about his sexuality because they are too polite to voice their real opinions.

“It makes it harder for straight people to target you if you just act like being gay is no big deal,” Stafford said.

Complete with black fishnet tights, a red laced

mini-dress, a short, curly black wig and a face full of costume makeup looking like Cher, Timothy White, 25, will judge the annual Dragonfly drag show at OSU on Thursday.

White, like Rinke, is a drag queen, but White identifies as a woman when he goes out in makeup.

White thought comments like “faggot” would stop when kids grew up. He thought discrimination like the days he sat alone in the Stillwater High School lunchroom were over.

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world for what it is,” White said. “It’s time they accept us for who we are.”

Community outside his female and liberal friends is something White said he has never had.

“Make America Great Again FAGGOT” was smeared in cheap window paint on Trey Vaszauskas car. Despite the hatefulness of the comment, the gay OSU student said this was the best and worst thing to happen to him.

Vaszauskas said the incident with his car was the only negative experience he’s had since he’s been out of the closet.

He said it showed him some people are hateful but mostly showed him the love and support Stillwater had for the LGBT community.

“But so many people were like, ‘OK Trey, let’s go find this dude and beat his ass,’ and that feeling of support made up for all the conservative, Republican hate being thrown at me,” Vaszauskas said.

Vaszauskas said because accepting gay people is now cool, people accept him for who he is because they are too afraid of losing friends on Facebook.

Julia Smola, a server at Mojos Grill, is strug-

gling to find a suitable community. Smola said it’s hard to say whether Stillwater is accepting of LGBTs because there’s no real community to accept or deny.

“Stillwater has no queer spaces,” Smola said.

Smola founded Bae the Zine, a small, selfpublished magazine that provides a platform for feminists, queers, minorities and other revolutionary voices on OSU’s campus who want to make a difference.

This zine was created to break down walls and unite “abstract” people.

Smola said publishing it every month is a small

effort she makes for her people and something she hopes continues on.

“I see a lot of support on OSU campus because everyone has something that makes them different,” Smola said.

Smola said she has never experienced any outright negativity because of her sexuality, and she credits this to not “looking queer.”

In his see-through black mesh shirt, ripped skinny jeans and suede booties, Chase Chapman, a physiology senior from Allen, Texas, said he doesn’t care what people think.

“I f-----g love myself … probably too much,”

Chapman said. “It’s flattering when people stare at me, like please, take a picture. I’ll even pose if you want.”

Chapman said he believes if the LGBT community would own its sexuality, it would remove the target from its back. He has had comments thrown at him while ordering margaritas at the Copper Penny, but he mostly remains unscathed in Stillwater.

Chapman said he doesn’t know whether Stillwater accepts gays or he’s too oblivious to the “haters.”

The only complaint Chapman had was Stillwater’s lack of a center or alliance for the

younger LGBT generation. OSU has organizations such as Gender and Sexuality Student Outreach and Oklahoma State Queers and Allies, but Stillwater does not have anywhere for young people to get information about how to deal with the struggles of being gay.

“The only way to overcome this is to talk about it,” Chapman said.

“We need to speak up for our equality everywhere we go.”

Lori Covey is a mulitmedia journalism junior from Oklahoma City. She can be reached at lori.covey@okstate.edu.

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Must be able to work outside in the heat, able to lift 50+ lbs., working occasional 40+ hour work week, weekend work may be expected and overnight harvesting trips. Farming experience is a plus. Only apply if you are able to work 40 hour weeks. MUST have valid U.S. drivers license. If you are interested call Jason Ray (405)334‑ 6924 or Nathan Stepp (405)564‑4709.

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5 Celebrity chef Paula 6 Highest peak in Ore. 7 “Well, looky here!”

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40 Ingredient in some Asian soup, or, literally, what each answer to a starred clue has 41 Facility 42 “Only Time” songwriter 43 A handful 45 Color named for a planet 46 In itself

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By Nancy Black Tribune Content Agency Today’s Birthday (04/19/17). Invent new possibilities this year.

Adopt a health goal for June results. Changes in your profession or industry this August lead to a home renovation phase. Begin a year of growing partnership in October. December initiates two years favoring your educational journey. Brainstorm together.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 9 -- Take action with friends. Pitch in for a common cause. There’s more money coming in over the next month, with the Sun in Taurus.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 9 -- Career opportunities get revealed today and tomorrow. Your confidence increases this month, with the Sun in your sign. You’re in your element, with an advantage. Take charge.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Today and tomorrow favor travel, research and adventure. Don’t rely on an unstable source. Confirm reservations and connections. Enjoy peaceful contemplation this month, with the Taurus Sun. Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Changes necessitate budget revisions. Pay bills and manage financial obligations today and tomorrow. You’re especially popular this month, under the Taurus Sun. Pull together.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 9 -- Rely on a strong partner over the next few days. For the next month, with the Sun in Taurus, advance your professional agenda. Grab an opportunity.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 9 -- Put your back into it. Physical action provides satisfying results. Dig into a big job.

Travel beckons, under the Taurus Sun this month. Expand your influence.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Recreation and relaxation call your name through tomorrow. Celebrate with people you love. Bring home the family bacon over the next month, with the Taurus Sun. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Domestic matters have your attention. Clean up a mess. Develop and strengthen partnerships this month, with the Sun in Taurus. Together, you’re more powerful.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Practice your creative skills through tomorrow. Physical action heats up over the next month, with the Sun in Taurus. Build strength and vitality.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 9 -- Positive cash flow provides a morale boost through tomorrow. You’re especially lucky in love this month, with the Sun in Taurus. Savor family, friends and romance.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 9 -- Polish your presentation. You’re in the spotlight today and tomorrow. Fix up your place this month under the Taurus Sun. Increase your family’s comfort.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Slow down over the next two days. Rest and recharge. Communications surge, with the Sun in Taurus this month. Private time prepares for public discourse.

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Editorial

S p e c i al Is s u e

Editorial: Pride week is a start to a more inclusive oklahoma state O ’C o lly E d i tori a l B oa r d @ocolly

Oklahoma State University prides itself on being diverse and open to all students from any background.

The university has a relatively large LGBT population in a largely religious and conservative state, but it’s far from being completely inclusive to all.

For some, it’s a positive environment to express who they really are and forget for a moment societal stigma surrounds them. For others, it’s less of a safe space but rather an area in which they can stop and take a breath

Citizens of a free nation do not need to live in fear of expressing themselves.”

O’Colly editorial board without being completely afraid.

OSU hasn’t always been the safe space people have wanted it to be, though.

On Nov. 28, OSU students tweeted pictures of a bedsheet hanging on the Student Union that read “DEDE WESTBROOK

+ BAKER MAYFIELD BANG DUDES #OUHATEWEEK.” Homophobia is nothing new to OSU or Oklahoma. Words such as “faggot” and “fairy” are commonly overheard in conversation, and legislation restricting the

protections of LGBT members is constantly being introduced in the state legislature.

Many people in the LGBT community feel compelled to hide their true identities because of the negativity coming with not being what most consider “normal.”

When people make fun of members of the LGBT community and call them distasteful things, it makes it even harder for them to express who they really are.

Some of the negativity toward the LGBT community stems from ignorance or religious views, and some comes from people who don’t like those who are different from them-

selves. It’s an uphill battle getting the general society to change its views, but it is a battle that has to happen for everybody. There have been countless lives lost to fear of being different or depression from bullying and labeling.

This is why we need events such as Pride Week. Citizens of a free nation do not need to live in fear of expressing themselves. Pride Week is more than a space on the calendar; it’s a time for members of the LGBT community to feel as open and free as any “normal” member of society.

Pride Week is a start.

Promoting a positive environment for people to express who they really

are is as important as advocating for diversity and openness, not only on campus but also in the community and the country.

The O’Colly Editorial Board is composed of Sierra Winrow, editor-in-chief; Marshall Scott, copy chief; Stetson Payne, managing editor; Nuria MartinezKeel, news editor; Aubrie Bowlan, lifestyle editor; Sam Grubenhoff, sports editor; Dekota Gregory, digital sports editor; Luke Garza, assistant sports editor; Nathan Ruiz, investigative editor; Franco Buhay, opinion editor; Jacob Harman, digital editor; Brady Moore, multimedia editor; and Kurt Steiss, design editor.

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