Lesbian Couple at Alabama High School Prom
This is one of those “sign of the times” sort of stories. Here’s a story about a couple of young women in Alabama who, after the intercession of a state court judge, attended their high school prom as a couple. I cannot even tell you how amazing it is to me that these young women had the courage to attend their prom as a couple and that a state court judge in a generally pretty red state ordered that they be allowed to. Even better, the girls’ mothers were obviously supportive.
It gives one hope. The world does change.
Tags: adolescent sexuality, lesbians, schools
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April 13, 2008 at 2:49 pm
I remember my prom in 1996. We were forced by the school to buy tickets as male-female couples–we couldn’t buy tickets as individuals. So, we just got matching male-male/female-female tuxes and formals, matched ourselves as male-female couples for the purpose of buying tickets, and went anyway as a group.
It was a lot of fun and we received a lot of support from most of the other students. The dissenters were mostly parents.