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School suspends gay student for bringing “unwanted publicity” to their anti-gay homecoming policy

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School suspends gay student for bringing “unwanted publicity” to their anti-gay homecoming policy

gaywrites:

Lance Sanderson, the high school senior who was told he couldn’t bring a same-sex date to homecoming, was suspended from school for a week because of the “unwanted publicity” he brought upon his school for taking the story to the media. 

“I am disappointed that I am unable to sit in class today,” Sanderson told NewNowNext. “While many assignments can be reached online, I was going to take two tests today and an in-class timed essay. Tomorrow at CBHS, I was going to meet with admissions representatives from around the country (they do not visit often). I hope to be welcomed back into a classroom setting soon.”

Sanderson did send a letter to his school documenting today’s events, wherein he recounts being “told that the administration ‘had 890 other students to worry about’ and could not deal with me.”

“I haven’t done anything wrong and haven’t hurt anybody,” Sanderson continued in his letter, which has yet to receive a response. “I want to be welcomed back to the school building today and I want this mean-spirited semi-suspension ended, so that I can do my classwork like anybody else.”

So now we’re keeping kids out of school because they spoke up and asked about a discriminatory policy? What the literal hell?

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macpros:

gay white cis man telling his coming out story: [adjusts the lighting to be more dramatic, focuses a spotlight on himself, begins playing sad music in the background] when i was little, i felt like there was something… different about me. i had some feelings i didn’t understand. in middle school i realized i was…gay. [begins to cry]  i was bullied. my parents didn’t understand, but they still loved me. then i got older and met new friends and my life was easier. as a cisgender white gay man, my life has been a battle from the beginning. no one will understand my pain. [lighting fades]

It’s great to know that homophobia doesn’t exist in the West anymore, that gay teenagers aren’t getting beaten or kicked out of their houses by their intolerant parents, that they aren’t being rejected, persecuted and violently abused by their peers for being a “dirty queer,” that they aren’t still being sent to corrective therapy, that they aren’t being driven to mental health issues or suicide as a result of these things, and that people nowadays are so accepting of gay people everywhere – which of course is why same-sex marriage is legal in Northern Ireland, every American state and not just nineteen, and people aren’t still being fired for being gay or beaten up on the streets or even killed for being a “dirty queer” by the same types of thugs they knew in school now grown into bigger and uglier thugs. Thank you so much for this revelation Tumblr user macpros, you disgusting waste of oxygen.

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