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Title: Girl Gets Photo Removed from Yearbook for Wearing a Tux
Post by: Butterfly on October 17, 2009, 02:33:00 AM
Post by: Butterfly on October 17, 2009, 02:33:00 AM
Girl Gets Photo Removed from Yearbook for Wearing a Tux
Feministing
16 October 2009
http://community.feministing.com/2009/10/girl-gets-photo-removed-from-y.html (http://community.feministing.com/2009/10/girl-gets-photo-removed-from-y.html)
Ceara Sturgis is a senior at a Mississippi high school described as being exemplary: "a straight-A student, goal on the soccer team, a trumpet player in the band and active in Students Against Drunk Driving". Despite all of this, Ceara's school is not allowing her senior photo to be included in the yearbook.
Feministing
16 October 2009
http://community.feministing.com/2009/10/girl-gets-photo-removed-from-y.html (http://community.feministing.com/2009/10/girl-gets-photo-removed-from-y.html)
Ceara Sturgis is a senior at a Mississippi high school described as being exemplary: "a straight-A student, goal on the soccer team, a trumpet player in the band and active in Students Against Drunk Driving". Despite all of this, Ceara's school is not allowing her senior photo to be included in the yearbook.
Title: Re: Girl Gets Photo Removed from Yearbook for Wearing a Tux
Post by: LivingInGrey on October 17, 2009, 08:21:23 AM
Post by: LivingInGrey on October 17, 2009, 08:21:23 AM
93 posts to the article by time I checked it out.
The news paper where I live has the same type of attached forum to their articles (Gannett owns both Clarion Ledger and the local news where I live) and sometimes it's scary to read what other people in my area are thinking about. I've seen a few articles in my news paper about LGBT issues and some of the things that are said just make me scared to leave the house.
Good luck to the girl.
http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20091016/NEWS/910160356/Gay+teen+s+yearbook+snub+challenged (http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20091016/NEWS/910160356/Gay+teen+s+yearbook+snub+challenged)
This link is in the article from Feministing, but I figured I'd put it up here so people can directly go to the Gannett article.
The news paper where I live has the same type of attached forum to their articles (Gannett owns both Clarion Ledger and the local news where I live) and sometimes it's scary to read what other people in my area are thinking about. I've seen a few articles in my news paper about LGBT issues and some of the things that are said just make me scared to leave the house.
Good luck to the girl.
http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20091016/NEWS/910160356/Gay+teen+s+yearbook+snub+challenged (http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20091016/NEWS/910160356/Gay+teen+s+yearbook+snub+challenged)
This link is in the article from Feministing, but I figured I'd put it up here so people can directly go to the Gannett article.
Title: Re: Girl Gets Photo Removed from Yearbook for Wearing a Tux
Post by: Virginia87106 on October 17, 2009, 10:04:21 AM
Post by: Virginia87106 on October 17, 2009, 10:04:21 AM
I would guess that someone high in authority heard about it who is a conservative Christian, and feels that it is her/his moral duty to stop this picture to save our world from destruction.
They are not thinking of the student at all.
They are not thinking of the student at all.
Title: Re: Girl Gets Photo Removed from Yearbook for Wearing a Tux
Post by: Suzy on October 17, 2009, 10:16:18 AM
Post by: Suzy on October 17, 2009, 10:16:18 AM
What a tragic thing for this student. I don't know about the administrator's faith, but it is obvious that someone in the higher ups is extremely homophobic. I have to admit, she looks great in the picture. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it. It is not indecent in any way.
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Title: Re: Girl Gets Photo Removed from Yearbook for Wearing a Tux
Post by: Calistine on October 17, 2009, 10:46:45 AM
Post by: Calistine on October 17, 2009, 10:46:45 AM
She looks really good. Why are people so stupid?
Title: Re: Girl Gets Photo Removed from Yearbook for Wearing a Tux
Post by: LivingInGrey on October 17, 2009, 11:02:06 AM
Post by: LivingInGrey on October 17, 2009, 11:02:06 AM
I wouldn't call it stupid, but it is a bit rude.
Just because someone thought they had the power and they felt they were right, this person doesn't get to have their picture in the school yearbook. I'd honestly rather not have my picture in a year book then have one that doesn't reflect who I am.
If the choice for me was wear a tux or not be in the yearbook, I'd rather not be in the yearbook.
Just because someone thought they had the power and they felt they were right, this person doesn't get to have their picture in the school yearbook. I'd honestly rather not have my picture in a year book then have one that doesn't reflect who I am.
If the choice for me was wear a tux or not be in the yearbook, I'd rather not be in the yearbook.
Title: Re: Girl Gets Photo Removed from Yearbook for Wearing a Tux
Post by: mickie88 on October 17, 2009, 11:31:50 AM
Post by: mickie88 on October 17, 2009, 11:31:50 AM
nothing wrong with the photo, but if i didn't know the girl (which i don't) or someone hadn't told me, i wouln't even know the photo was of a girl. she looks very much like a boy in the photo which my guess is that may be what she was going for. i dunno. i've seen boys and girls around here a lot that seem to resmemble both genders more than some people think they should.
Title: Re: Girl Gets Photo Removed from Yearbook for Wearing a Tux
Post by: Butterfly on October 18, 2009, 04:49:42 AM
Post by: Butterfly on October 18, 2009, 04:49:42 AM
School stands by decision on photo
The Clarion Ledger
17 October 2009
http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20091018/NEWS/910180361/School+stands+by+decision+on+photo (http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20091018/NEWS/910180361/School+stands+by+decision+on+photo)
Ceara Sturgis, a senior at Wesson Attendance Center, said she does not understand why the Copiah County School District has taken such a hard stance against including her in the school's yearbook.
Sturgis, who is gay, had her senior portrait taken wearing a tuxedo, rather than the customary drape. Last month, her mother, Veronica Rodriguez, was informed by school officials her daughter's photo would not be included in the yearbook.
The Clarion Ledger
17 October 2009
http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20091018/NEWS/910180361/School+stands+by+decision+on+photo (http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20091018/NEWS/910180361/School+stands+by+decision+on+photo)
Ceara Sturgis, a senior at Wesson Attendance Center, said she does not understand why the Copiah County School District has taken such a hard stance against including her in the school's yearbook.
Sturgis, who is gay, had her senior portrait taken wearing a tuxedo, rather than the customary drape. Last month, her mother, Veronica Rodriguez, was informed by school officials her daughter's photo would not be included in the yearbook.
Title: Re: Girl Gets Photo Removed from Yearbook for Wearing a Tux
Post by: Silver on October 18, 2009, 04:53:43 AM
Post by: Silver on October 18, 2009, 04:53:43 AM
That's really :icon_censored: up.
Title: Re: Girl Gets Photo Removed from Yearbook for Wearing a Tux
Post by: Deanna_Renee on October 18, 2009, 07:14:47 AM
Post by: Deanna_Renee on October 18, 2009, 07:14:47 AM
What is this "Drape" that they refer to? Are all students 'required' to be photographed in it, or just the girls? If so, what do the boys wear?
I can see if the district/school requires a set 'look' for all students and she is trying to stand apart by wearing something that no one else in the book are allowed to wear, but if the boys are allowed to wear tux's and the girls are required to wear a "drape", or identical looking thing around their necks, then the issue should go beyond just the fact that she, being gay, wants to be seen more like a boy.
Also, is this a public school or private? I sounds to me like it is an overly strict system for any public school I've ever heard of. IMO
Deanna
I can see if the district/school requires a set 'look' for all students and she is trying to stand apart by wearing something that no one else in the book are allowed to wear, but if the boys are allowed to wear tux's and the girls are required to wear a "drape", or identical looking thing around their necks, then the issue should go beyond just the fact that she, being gay, wants to be seen more like a boy.
Also, is this a public school or private? I sounds to me like it is an overly strict system for any public school I've ever heard of. IMO
Deanna
Title: Re: Girl Gets Photo Removed from Yearbook for Wearing a Tux
Post by: Jay on October 18, 2009, 07:21:55 AM
Post by: Jay on October 18, 2009, 07:21:55 AM
Jeez! ::)
Jay
Jay
Title: Re: Girl Gets Photo Removed from Yearbook for Wearing a Tux
Post by: Suzy on October 18, 2009, 09:01:34 AM
Post by: Suzy on October 18, 2009, 09:01:34 AM
Absolutely unbelievable. I checked with my local school district. Mind you, this is not exactly a bastion of liberalism around here. They would have included it no problem.
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Title: Re: Girl Gets Photo Removed from Yearbook for Wearing a Tux
Post by: DarkLady on October 18, 2009, 03:40:06 PM
Post by: DarkLady on October 18, 2009, 03:40:06 PM
I can understand it somehow. In case masculinity is enfored so must the feminity be too. In case ''boys'' must be boys then ''girls'' must be girls too. ;)