NJ councilman pushes LGBTQ issues in Montclair with plans for Pride Festival, new laws
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When Montclair Councilor-at-large Peter Yacobellis was 17 and discovering his identity as a gay man, he got some devastating messages from society.
At his church one day, he suddenly found himself at the altar, surrounded by the congregation, who were trying to "pray the gay" out of him.
He then enlisted in the Air Force, figuring it would "straighten him out." After he violated the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy by confessing his confused feelings about his sexuality to a chaplain, he was discharged, screamed at and told he would "never amount to anything," he said.