VA High School Boy: I Was Suspended For Wearing High Heels And Being Gay

[Shana A]

VA High School Boy: I Was Suspended For Wearing High Heels And Being Gay

By:           Evan Mulvihill
On:           Mar 6, 2012

http://www.queerty.com/va-high-school-boy-i-was-suspended-for-wearing-high-heels-and-being-gay-20120306/

A gay Virginia high school students says he was suspended for three days because he wore high heels to school, NBC12 reports. The student, 17-year-old Asante Cotman, was told by the principal he was "disrupting" the school with his nontraditional attire.Said Cotman:

"I wore this jacket right here and my white shirt and my scarf and a pair of cargo pants and the heels. I didn't see how it was bothering anyone. I wasn't revealing nothing...

"[The principal was] talking to me in a manner, like, belittling me. 'Oh, you shouldn't come back here. Oh, we would be glad if you didn't come back here. Everybody would be happy.' That comment really got to me. I was almost done... I feel like I was about to kill myself. I was almost done."

[Shana A]

Suspended teen in detention center
Posted: Mar 13, 2012 5:27 PM EDT Updated: Mar 13, 2012 6:18 PM EDT
By Diane Walker - bio | email
Posted by Terry Alexander - email

http://www.nbc12.com/story/17150229/teen-in-detention-center

CHARLES CITY COUNTY, VA (WWBT) – The 17-year-old, who believes he was kicked out of school for being gay and wearing high heels is no longer attending Charles City High. The high school junior is actually behind bars now.

Asante Cotman was arrested at his home on the last day of his 3-day suspension. Althea Cotman tells me her 17-year-old son was crying as his probation officer took him away while she was at work.

Asante Cotman's mother says he's in secure detention at Merrimac Juvenile Detention Center in Williamsburg awaiting two probation violation hearings. 

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Very sad and hopefully the person will sort their life out soon.

I have to say though, that credit card theft is unacceptable. Any high ground the person may (or may not) have had was utterly lost there.

They went from being a misunderstood person to being a dishonest, trustful thief,

But as I said, and I'm sire most others will agree with this, hopefully they will sort their life out soon.