Gay Lake Hamilton Student Removed from Dance for Cross-Dressing

[Kate Thomas]

Arkansas Matters
By: Josh Berry

Gay Lake Hamilton Student Removed from Dance for Cross-Dressing

This all started when 15-year-old ninth-grader Gavin Combs decided to wear a dress to the Lake Hamilton Junior High School dance.

Combs says after he had already paid to get in and was welcomed by friends, the two school administrators told him they wouldn't have it and that he had to leave.

"I think it is because of what I was wearing and what I identify as, and they didn't necessarily like that so they were going to remove me," Combs said.

His mother isn't asking that the two employees be fired, like the petition requests, but that they admit they were wrong and apologize for kicking her gay son out of the dance for wearing what he says represents who he is.

[Ms. OBrien CVT]

Doubt any thing will happen, it is after all Arkansas.

[suzifrommd]

From the article:

Without prior knowledge that this was going to take place, the building administrators made a spur of the moment decision based on an attempt to avoid a possible harassment and bullying incident and that they felt this was not appropriate attire for this activity.

Ah. They trampled on the poor kid's rights to PROTECT him. Kinda like when the troops during the Vietnam war blew up a village in order to save it, I suppose.