Male student beats the odds and wins homecoming queen

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Male student beats the odds and wins homecoming queen

Posted on 12 October 2010 by Andy Badii

http://theguardianonline.com/2010/10/12/male-student-beats-the-odds-and-wins-homecoming-queen/

There is something familiar and something different about homecoming court this year.

According to this year's queen, the title for the last three years now has gone to a Greek organization member, but now the crown belongs to a man.

Nick Bell is a 22 year old student in his fourth year of theater studies here at WSU, and a member of Phi Kappa Tau.

"I wanted to reverse the stereotype associated with the word queen," said Bell.  "If we kept the word queen to its literal meaning I would have no problem, and I think the LGBTQA community would not as well."