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Class of 2008: most likely to succeed: The Advocate honors two students graduating this spring who are making a solid mark in the gay rights movement locally, nationally, worldwide.(YOUTH)(Samantha Cannon and Ryan Tauriainen)

Publication: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)

Publication Date: 17-JUN-08

Author: Garcia, Michelle
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SAMANTHA CANNON, 18, ROBERT D. EDGREN HIGH SCHOOL, MISAWA CITY, JAPAN

With both parents employed by the U.S. Department of Defense, Samantha Cannon spent high school on the Misawa Air Base in Misawa City, Japan. In the fall of 2007, the student council vice president decided to start a gay-straight alliance--not because she's gay but because she noticed the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy makes LGBT students uncomfortable being out at a school on an Air Force base.

Cannon and student council president Emely Vallee found a faculty...

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