This was the first time Joey Franko used his name in a letter to the editor; to the best of my knowledge it was the first time anyone publicly said they were gay on campus and the first time anyone's name was listed as gay in a letter to the editor in the Daily.
There is significance in such a radical action framed in the time period in which it happened. This letter to the editor on this date marked yet another change in the world as Ames had previously known it.
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