Gay teen's yearbook snub challenged
Chris Joyner
October 16, 2009
http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20091016/NEWS/910160356/1001/news/Gay-teen-s-yearbook-photo-snub-challengedVeronica Rodriguez describes her daughter, 17-year-old Ceara Sturgis, as a perfect child: a straight-A student, goalie on the soccer team, a trumpet player in the band and active in Students Against Drunk Driving.
She also is gay and feels more comfortable in boy's clothes. So, Rodriguez said she supported her daughter's decision to wear a tuxedo, rather than the drape customary for girls, when she had her senior portrait made in July.
But Rodriguez said school officials at Wesson Attendance Center, a K-12 school in the Copiah County School District, were not as supportive and have refused to include the picture in the school yearbook.
