If these guys lived in Brecksville, could they attend the prom?
On a recent sunny afternoon, C-Notes headed out to the real life Pleasantville that is Brecksville to find out if the rumors were true: Was Brecksville High really banning gay students from its prom?
According to our spies – well planted at a certain North Royalton beauty salon – the suburban school district has a longstanding rule that decrees students can only attend prom if they have a date of the opposite sex. The reasoning went that the school couldn’t actually ban just gay students, so it had to make an all encompassing rule that would readily exclude dateless wall flowers and mathaletes too. That way, no one could be accused of being a homophobe…
This article appears in May 14-20, 2008.
Last I knew, dateless straight girls went to the prom together for no other reason than companionship. What about them?
Since no one seems able to confirm this “policy”, I suspect it’s a rumor started by some het as yet another layer of persecution to keep gays away from the prom. Maybe if the gay kidz boycotted the prom and the ticket sales suffered, someone would rectify this.