By Raymond Kongwa,Guardian Staff Reporter

Former Miss Teen Bahamas, Gari McDonald is taking legal advice after being stripped of her title Wednesday.

The 18-year-old teen queen who a week ago declared that she was gay, has promised a "full response" to her crown being taken by the Miss Teen Bahamas committee.

"In short order we are going to call a press confrence in which everybody will be invited and you are going to have a full response from myself and my lawyer in regard to the situation" Ms McDonald told The Guardian yesterday.

Declining to specifically comment on the circunstances surrounding being stripped, Ms McDonald said "We are still waying our options on what steps to take at this point."

While the former Miss Teen Bahamas claimed earlier that her thrown was in jeaoardy because of her sexual oreientation the committee has conetnded that the original decision to take her crown was based on claims that Ms Mcdonald had harrased her.

"Now she went ahead by herself , nobody accused her," said pageant Assistant Director Richa Sands of Ms Mcdonald's decision to make her sexual oreientation public. "She went publicly and put to the media and the world at large , her sexual position as a teenager.

"For us that is a major problem because we don't stand for that," Ms Sands told The Guardian Wednesday. Calling the circimstances surrounding Ms Mcdodald's revealation and other claims that she made about the commitee "scandolus behavior" the assistant director said the situation was especially frustrating to her, as an expecting mother and a Christian.