Lesbian highschooler denied place in yearbook for wearing “male” tuxedo
”I think I have just as much right as everyone else to be in that yearbook…. I figured I’ve been going there for 13 years, they would put it in the yearbook, but I guess I was wrong…. I’m standing up for a bunch of people that support me”
Ceara Sturgis, a lesbian who attends a Mississippi high school, reacting to press inquiries about her next move now that the Copiah County School District has refused to allow her to appear in a school yearbook because, ”she is gay and wearing a tuxedo.” (WLBT)
”It seems like the school just found out about the situation, that she is gay and dresses like a guy. She’s been dressing like a guy since the ninth grade.”
Cody Young a junior at Wesson Attendance Center speaking about the school’s anti-gay policy; a policy that has become a public dispute over whether Ceara Sturgis is allowed to appear in the yearbook wearing a tuxedo or if she must wear the customary female drape. County School Superintendant Ricky Clopton says the Federal courts have already decided this same issue and are on the side of the school system. (Clarion Ledger)
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