“The students and myself believe that there was equal opportunity for both males and females because every senior had the ability to be nominated”, 16-year-old Haley said.
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“We want to change this because it’s obvious discrimination against us both for being in a lesbian relationship”, she added. We are unaware of any school policy or other facts to indicate that Ms. Lack and her date are being denied their right to attend the FHS prom as a couple or that FHS is denying Ms. Lack her nomination for prom king. Citing that it would be unfair “to the boy gender” he suggested the couple run as individuals.
Despite their nomination as a couple by fellow students, two female high-schoolers are being told that their prom royalty eligibility has been rejected because it isn’t “fair” to their male peers. As of last Tuesday afternoon, Lack told the paper, they had collected more than 100 signatures.
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Carlton DiSalvo, student body president and the School Board’s student representative, is proud that his school is so accepting and that the election of two women as prom king and queen is a testament of how people can unite to make a difference.
Messages left with the Shasta Union High School District, which oversees the Foothill campus, were not immediately returned. As a federal court in MS found more than five year ago, ‘this expression and communication of her viewpoint [bringing a same-sex date to prom] is the type of speech that falls squarely within the purview of the First Amendment.
The Muslim prom queen attributed her victory to her non-Muslim friends who campaigned for her by wearing hijabs. It prevented the expression of a sexual orientation, a statement of equality for same-sex couples, and a challenge to traditional gender roles.
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According to an interview in Mic, Lack says that couples have “always been nominated” for the king and queen title together and that it only became a problem when the school saw that a lesbian couple was nominated.
