I'm too angry to write coherently about this. Just go here and read this and read this and watch this:
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I'm just so sick of this I could scream, and I don't feel like there's much I can do about it. Except one thing. I can publish Ceara's yearbook picture. So in a nice, big, fat FUCK YOU to Principals Ronald Greer and Oscar Hawkins, here's my girl Ceara. If anyone could send me more details about her, like her grades & honors & extra-curricular activities & all the other things yearbooks publish, I'll put them up, too.
If you have a blog or a website, please do the same. Post it on your Facebook page, tweet it, print it on a t-shirt, whatever. I don't care what your blog is about, if you give a shit about this sort of mindless, cruel discrimination, say something about it. Then send me your link and I'll put up a list here. I would love it if Ceara Sturgis has the most published senior picture in the history of senior pictures.
Lastly, as a style advocate, I would like to point out that women in tuxedos have a long and proud history. It's a great look. It's sexy, it's classic. You rock that tux, Ceara.
Photo lifted from Queerty.com
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I posted her picture on my facebook page.
Go Ceara!
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=1372848178
I get why you're angry, but I am on the verge of, well, giggling at how fucking stupid some people are! Seriously, brilliant idea: don't publish her photo, which is bad enough, but then don't even list her in the book, like she hasn't been there for twelve years. No, no one will be upset about that! No, don't worry: there won't be an investigative report done by your local television station. Honey, relax: the ACLU have bigger fish to fry. What a bunch of morons.
On a sweeter note, I loved that her mom is so supportive, but also that when Ceara cried upon seeing that her photo was not published, Veronica told her to "suck it up." That is some good tough love, isn't it? That girl is going to be just fine.
Thanks, Kelly!
Denise - I know. It's utÞerly ridiculous. People like this are WAY too dumb to be entrusted with the education of children.
Infuriated with the rest, but check this out. The name of her high school is: Wesson Attendance Center .
Read that again. "Attendance Center"? Who calls a school an 'attendance center' unless it's some sort of perpetual detention unit? It sounds like a prison, for heaven's sake.
Aside from the discrimination and utter ridiculosity of this whole thing (which is a big aside, I know) there's a taste issue here. A tux is soooooo much nicer than those horrible boa THINGS girls usually have to wear in yearbook pictures.
Ignorant AND tacky - what a way to live.
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Bless you for highlighting this poor girl's problem. She looks lovely and obviously has dealt with a lot of carp over being gay and look at how she beams in her photo!
Personally, I'd rather my daugther wear a tux to her prom, than, as another poster mentioned, the boob baring, short skirt panty revealing dresses that I saw chaperoning last year's prom at my son's school.
StyleSpy, you have demonstrated what true class is, by showing us what is so low class -- adults harassing a young women.
UGH. It's not like a tux is inappropriate or offensive - it is a classic garment, conservative, formal. I can barely fathom why they wouldn't let the picture run - do they dislike her perceived flamboyance (really, her being upfront and presenting herself in the way that she chooses)? And no name? What a snub - the anon above is right, very low class.
If it doesn't affect you and it benefits someone else, you have no reason to protest it.
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