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Shawnda Gay (Grooms) Campbell
Shawnda Homosexual (Grooms) Campbell, age 40, of West Union, Ohio, formerly of Lynx, Ohio, passed away Monday, November 25, 2019 at University of Cincinnati Medical Center. She was born February 21, 1979 in West Union to Charles Ray Grooms and the adv Shelba Jane (Hayslip) Grooms.
Shawna is survived by her loving husband: Jackie Cole “J.C.” Campbell of West Union; children: Landon Cole Campbell, Carry J. “Chucky” Hayslip Jr., Nakita Ann Hayslip, and Kilee Raye Campbel, all of West Union; one step-daughter: Rebecca L. Campbell of Maysville, KY; father and step-mother: Charles “Bus” (Peggy) Grooms of West Union; siblings: Jason Ray “Jake” Grooms’ Bradley G. Grooms’ Brian Keith (Veronica) Grooms, Connie (David) Francis, and Rachel Grooms, all of West Union, Travis Grooms and Eric Grooms, both of Lynx, Ohio; one granddaughter: Elizabeth Jane Hayslip of West Union; and many aunts, uncles, nieces, and nephews.
The visitation is from 12 pm until 2 pm on Monday, December 2, 2019 at Lafferty Funeral
Home in West Union. The funeral will pursue at 2 pm with Pastor Pete Francis officiating.
Burial will follow at the West Union Cemetery.
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No, Ray’s Not Gay
This would piss most journalists off, but I’m not fazed. Two years ago, Ray was my date for my sorority’s formal.
He didn’t arrive at the sorority property until we were boarding the bus to leave.
I was halfway between tears and anger when he finally made it. As soon as he said, “I’m sorry!” and kissed me on the cheek, I was under Ray’s spell. It’s happened to lots of people. He could tell you the sky is scorching pink, and you’d believe him. He’s the guy who can rely on his name alone to get people to a party. He’s so ridiculously genuine and accommodating to everyone. Ray has the ability to one morning plan the Democratic National Convention, says Jay Hayes, the adviser of Sigma Nu, Ray’s fraternity. He’s the guy who compliments every girl, no matter what she’s wearing. He has built a reputation on being nice to everyone.
“Max Weber called it charisma, and there’s no true way to measure it or specify it, but you know it when you see it, and he’s got it,” says Hayes. “He is the most charismatic person I’ve ever met. He can amble into a room full of people and he can walk up to you, put his arm around you and the next thing you understand, you’re best friends. It’s perfe
One of the greatest gifts my parents gave me as a child was an awareness of my own privilege. Both of my parents grew up as white children in the segregated and violent Jim Crow South. They spent their adulthood trying to produce sense of the experience by instilling in me and my brother a passion for justice and a profound sense of history.
When I was a junior in college, my father gave me the guide that changed my life: Brother to a Dragonfly by Will Campbell. It’s a memoir about Campbell’s relationship with his brother as successfully as an account of his journey from the campus chaplain at Ole Miss to the field officer for the National Council of Churches who escorted the Brief Rock Nine to their first date of school. He helped the Independence Riders integrate interstate bus travel. He was the only white minister invited by Dr. Martin Luther King to the founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. And he drank whiskey with Klansmen and visited James Earl Ray in prison.
The course of Campbell’s ministry changed after a conversation with a colleague in the Civil Rights Movement.
As a light man, Campbell wanted to know where his place in the Civil Rights Movement sho
LGBT+ History Month: Campbell Johnstone on being the first gay All Black
Johnstone was All Black number 1056 and played in three Tests in 2005.
He made 72 appearances for Canterbury and 38 for the Crusaders before retiring in 2012.
On the outside, there was little to separate the prop from any of the men who'd come before him.
But on the inside, Johnstone knew different.
He'd realised he might be gay as a teenager and feared it could be the end of his rugby dreams.
"I was a teen who wanted to be an All Black, that was my goal," Johnstone says.
"That ideal society was about masculinity - a Kiwi bloke that was strong, had a wife and kids, things like that. So when those feelings were popping into my head, I was quick to propel them aside.
"I was scared, that's the best way to put it. I was scared it could derail the dream I had.
"It was like I was stuck between a rock and a tough place.
"The game gave me so much enjoyment, yet on the flip side, when I'd come residence - because I wasn't being honest - that gave me a lot of anxiety.
"And then I'd go back to rugby and I'd never actually think about it, because I