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MEET THE INSPIRING 1ST OPENLY GAY MAN TO Ascend EVEREST
Cason Crane atop Mount Everest
A young, gay American man has reached the peak of Mount Everest as part of his quest to climb the world’s highest mountains – all to highlight the high suicide rates among gay teens.
Twenty-year-old Cason Crane committed to climbing the tallest peak on each of the seven continents after the suicide of a high school companion and the 2010 suicide of Tyler Clementi at Rutgers University.
Crane created the Rainbow Summits Project 18 months ago in encourage of the Trevor Undertaking, the largest LGBT teen suicide support service in the US.
He has now climbed six of the seven peaks after he became the first openly gay climber to end the Mount Everest ascent on May 20.
After reaching the mountain top he held up one of the rainbow flags he took along.
“I sat down on the rounded apex, stared at the flags, and still in shock, I sobbed. I had done it. It was so worth it, pleasant times and bad, and I knew I was there for every one of us who’d experienced discrimination,” wrote Crane on his blog on Huffington Post.
He went on to write: “On that windy mo
Gay Mountaineer Climbs Mt. Everest For LGBT Youth
Cason Crane, who will be enrolled at Princeton University this fall, has been all over the world, climbing peaks that would produce any normal person weary at only twenty years old. He climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro with his mother in 2008 at age 15. Since then, he has climbed mountains in the United States, Recent Zealand, Russia, Switzerland, France, and Argentina. He is the founder of the Rainbow Summits Project, which ties together his love for climbing with his advocacy for the Trevor Project, and organization which seeks to stop suicides in LGBTQ youth. The Rainbow Summits Project hopes to raise awareness and funds by climbing the highest peak on each continent, commonly referred to as "the seven summits".
Crane told Out Sports, "I'm so lucky to have had such a positive experience and I'm doing this project for kids like this who have had a much tougher time, who deal with this every night, who love sports but are afraid to even go to sports games for fear of entity beaten up or called names and that just shouldn't happen. … He's way more courageous than I am and it shows true character to do what he does every single day." Cason wil
Blind Man Climbs Mount Everest, But... He's Gay?
March 8, 2021
Many years ago, news anchor Cynthia Izaguirre was covering a story about Erik Weihenmayer, the first blind man to reach the summit of Mount Everest. But she mixed up her words and the result is one of the funniest news bloopers to meet. In this video we even get to watch Erik's initial reaction.
It's an old video so the quality is poor.
Although it's been many years, Cythia still relives the moment, which has actually turn into a positive event in Erik's life. As a motivational speaker and activist, he often introduces himself at events with a clip of the news blooper.
Watch the update below.
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CHICAGO (CBS) -- A lgbtq+ Chicagoan plans to accept his fight to legalize same-sex marriage to recent heights.
WBBM Newsradio's Regine Schlesinger reports 26-year-old Joe Rudy, an art gallery salesman and avid mountain climber, plans to scale Mt. Everest.
He and his father have climbed the highest peaks in both North and South America, and now he's setting his sights on the world's tallest mountain to promote same-sex marriage.
Gay Climber Sets Sights On Mt. Everest
Rudy is coaching to scale Mt. Everest next March, building up his strength and endurance.
"I take a tire and tie it to my waist," he said. "A big truck tire, and I tie to a 10-foot cord around my waist, and put 30 or 40 pounds in a backpack, and I walk or hike around the city for 5 hours at a time."
Rudy said scaling Everest will be his way of symbolizing the uphill clash for gay rights.
"I think it's a nice analogy for the difficulties that LGBT Americans confront in the U.S., fighting for equal rights, as we've been doing for decades," he said.
The Illinois Senate has passed legislation to allow same-sex marriages in Illinois, but the measure has stalled in the Illinois House as the sponsor works to build suppor
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