“I was sent to fake prom”
You are probably reading the title in total disbelieve right? A fake prom? Who the heck would even do that? For Constance McMillan this was totally real. After her school and the board refused for her to bring a female date along with her to her prom they cancelled it all together. Constance and her attorney had fought hard for her to be able to bring a female date too her school prom. The case was sent to court and a judge said that the school will host a prom that Constance and her date can attend. Parents were not happy about this and a second prom was organized by a group of parents. Constance and a few other “outcasts” of the high school were never invited.
With all the research I have been doing with this project a lot of it has been progress and another step forward in the right direction, people supporting LGBT community. But when I hear stories like Constance’s my jaw hits the floor. How is it that a group of parents think that that girl does not deserve to go to prom just because she identifies herself differently than their own son or daughter? It shocks me that there are parents advocating and teaching their children this. Constance said that there were only seven people at the prom. The other five attendees were special needs students. She says the only thing that was really great about that night was that they felt like they could have fun, there was no one there to pick on them or too ruin their prom night. Is that the only way to `”handle” these things, by segregating the lesbians, gays bisexuals transgender? The special needs kids from the rest of their own high school?
With all the research I have been doing with this project a lot of it has been progress and another step forward in the right direction, people supporting LGBT community. But when I hear stories like Constance’s my jaw hits the floor. How is it that a group of parents think that that girl does not deserve to go to prom just because she identifies herself differently than their own son or daughter? It shocks me that there are parents advocating and teaching their children this. Constance said that there were only seven people at the prom. The other five attendees were special needs students. She says the only thing that was really great about that night was that they felt like they could have fun, there was no one there to pick on them or too ruin their prom night. Is that the only way to `”handle” these things, by segregating the lesbians, gays bisexuals transgender? The special needs kids from the rest of their own high school?
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