Lake Zurich High School Student Media

Bear Facts
Lake Zurich High School Student Media

Bear Facts
Lake Zurich High School Student Media

Bear Facts
How heteronormativity as the default perception affects LGBTQ+ students.

The binary lens

Hannah Etienne, Gurneer Sidhu, and Kara Yoon
October 1, 2021
GSA/Spectrum meetings are held over zoom as clubs shift to remote meeting.

Connecting while separate

Kara Yoon, Staff Writer
September 29, 2020
Joey Nemec, junior Spectrum leader, talks to the Spectrum club during a weekly Tuesday meeting after school. “I see the LGBT community that we’re all people who are born this way and we can’t change that,” Nemec said. “I just think we should all accept each other because [the LGBTQ+ community is] not hurting anyone. Love is love.”

“Eccentric, but in a very good way”

Sasha Kek, Staff Writer
December 13, 2019
During Ally Week, students signed a banner and pledged their alliance with the LGBTQ+ community. "I think a lot of the people who come up are already allies, but [Ally Week helps LGBTQ+ students] by showing other people that there are a lot of signatures on this [banner] and there are a lot more people that support us; there’s a lot of us," Joey Nemec, junior and Spectrum member, said.

We’re all in this together

Sasha Kek, Staff Writer
September 30, 2019
Cade Ryan, senior, was one of the people who pushed the name change of GSA to Spectrum. The goal of the change to Spectrum was to make a more inclusive name to show how the club is accepting of anyone and everyone.

Better name, better club

Parul Pari, Staff Writer
November 10, 2017
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