Apr 28 2010
Lesbian In A Tuxedo Not Allowed To Be In School Yearbook
In Mississippi, a high school student didn’t wear a dress for her senior picture, therefore her picture was pulled from the yearbook. Sounds pretty harsh to me. The way I feel about this is you are born gay, there is nothing you can do about it, so people who don’t understand shouldn’t punish you for it. If this girl relates more with males than females, then let her. Ceara Sturgis is just 17-years-old and doesn’t deserve this kind of discrimination.
The only thing she should be punished for is sporting Justin Bieber’s hairstyle… just saying…
“They didn’t even put her name in it,” Sturgis’ mother Veronica Rodriguez said. “I was so furious when she told me about it. Ceara started crying and I told her to suck it up. Is that not pathetic for them to do that? Yet again, they have crapped on her and made her feel alienated.”
What she discovered on Friday, when the yearbook came in, was that the school had refused to acknowledge her entirely.
“It’s like she’s nobody there, even though she’s gone to school there for 12 years,” Rodriguez said. “They mentioned none of her accolades, even though she’s one of the smartest students there with wonderful grades. They’ve got kids in the book that have been busted for drugs. There’s even a picture of one of the seniors who dropped out of school.
“I don’t get it. Ceara is a top student. Why would they do this to her?”
I would think these days that this would be accepted in a school. I know when I was in high school, I graduated 2002, there were girls wearing tuxedos in their senior pictures… IN THE YEARBOOK. Who cares? I think it is disgusting that they didn’t publish this and made it like Sturgis isn’t even a student there, with no reference to her what so ever.
What do you think? Should they have published the picture or not? Read the full article here.
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Roxy….you bring up good points that this girl should be able to wear whatever she wants in her HS yearbook picture but there are schools that require specific dress attire for the yearbook. Perhaps the rules of the HS should be “updated”. When I graduated from HS ( years ago ) girls had to wear a Dark blouse or top……………it was just required. While I know this girl wants to do her thing sometimes you just have to follow the rules. I am sure everyone who knows this girl in HS knows that she is a lesbian so let her express herself other than the yearbook? Don’t you thing as the graduates review their year books in years to come they will always comment on that girl as “oh she is a lesbian” as they share it with their friends? I say save your expressions for the big stuff ( not you, but people in general ) and just follow the rules.
@Michelle- I agree on the fact that she should of just followed the rules, but at the same time, they shouldn’t of allowed her to wear the tux if they weren’t going to publish the picture.
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