NEW YORK — The Boy Scouts' New York chapter said Thursday that it has hired the nation's first openly gay Eagle Scout as a summer camp leader, a direct and public challenge to the national scouting organization's ban on openly gay adult members.Pascal Tessier, an 18-year-old Eagle scout, will be a camp counselor this summer at the Ten Mile River Scout Camp in Narrowsburg, Sullivan County, according to the New York Daily News.
Ny Boy Scouts Hire Gay Eagle Scout As Camp Counselor In Sullivan County Despite National Policy
The Associated Press, Times Herald-Record
Thu, 04/02/2015 - 1:02pm
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Topics: New York Orange County, NY Middletown
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