Hometown Findlay[Ohio] disappoints gay student following resignation

Dan82 · Aug 31, 2010

http://toledoblade.com/article/20100831/NEWS16/8300392/-1/OPINION02

Army cadet and Findlay High School graduate Katie Miller dropped a bombshell this month when she announced that she is lesbian and would resign from the U.S. Military Academy because she could no longer conform to the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

Her resignation letter quickly gained national media attention after it appeared on a Web site of an organization of gay and lesbian West Point alumni.

On Aug. 11, Ms. Miller appeared in uniform for a televised interview on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, telling the host - herself a lesbian - that the emotional, mental, and social toll of hiding her sexual identity had become too great. Two days later, the story hit her hometown newspapers.

As she now prepares for a life outside the military at Yale University, where she is a transfer student, Ms. Miller said that she feels the reaction to her coming out as a lesbian and leaving West Point has been largely positive - with the notable exception of Findlay.

"I was shocked that I didn't receive more support than that from my hometown," Ms. Miller, 20, a 2008 Findlay High School graduate, said in a recent phone interview. "I think the Findlay area has been especially harsh on me - just really wary of what my intentions were...

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donnie5 · Aug 31, 2010

ugh!! she was 9 in her class!! one of their best students, it is beyond ridiculous to me that they would lose one of their best pupils because of something like sexuality. sometimes i really get reminded how much this country is stuck in the 1920's

Revan · Aug 31, 2010

Tell me about it -_-

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