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Jeremy was refused entry to his high school prom when he arrived in a gown and makeup instead of a tuxedo. KUAM, Guam’s news network, reports that officials at George Washington High School in Guam refunded the money Jeremy spent for a prom ticket, but are unsympathetic about the $400 he spent on clothing and other items, and will not issue him the apology that he wants for being unable to attend the prom. Jeremy claims that he was discriminated against when he was denied entry. “I said, ‘Where does it state in this rule in this paper that there’s...

Vehicle homicide trial awaits fourth (snip) But according to the four defendants’ statements to police, they decided to continue partying. After driving to Vokey’s house, where Baldwin picked up nearly a case of beer, the four headed to Nahant Beach. At the beach, Vokey’s girlfriend arrived and picked him up, leaving Baldwin, Palomba, and Caruso with the beer. According to their statements, Baldwin and Palomba each consumed about five beers, and Caruso drank as many as six. The three were at the beach for about two hours. When they got into Caruso’s car, Baldwin asked Caruso if he was “good.’’...

Family advocates are outraged by a prom held at Boston City Hall that was open to children apparently as young as 12 featuring crossdressers, homosexual heavy petting, suspected drug use and a leather-clad doorman who teaches sexual bondage classes. Children from middle schools and high schools across Massachusetts on May 9 attended a Youth Pride Day event ending with a prom inside of Boston City Hall sponsored by the Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Youth, or BAGLY, a group seated on the Massachusetts Commission for GLBT Youth. Boston Mayor Thomas Menino issued a proclamation welcoming homosexual and...

Family advocates are outraged by a prom held at Boston City Hall that was open to children apparently as young as 12 featuring crossdressers, homosexual heavy petting, suspected drug use and a leather-clad doorman who teaches sexual bondage classes. Children from middle schools and high schools across Massachusetts on May 9 attended a Youth Pride Day event ending with a prom inside of Boston City Hall sponsored by the Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Youth, or BAGLY, a group seated on the Massachusetts Commission for GLBT Youth. Boston Mayor Thomas Menino issued a proclamation welcoming homosexual and transgender...

An openly-gay, teenage boy was just voted "Prom Queen" at Los Angeles' Fairfax High School in a campaign that began as a stunt -- but ended up spurring discussion on the campus about gender roles and teen popularity. Sergio Garcia, 18, was crowned queen Saturday night at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. "I feel invincible," Garcia said in his tiara and charcoal-gray tuxedo. A few days earlier, he gave a speech that won over some cynics and led to an ovation and his unlikely victory. "At one time, prom may have been a big popularity contest where the best-looking guy or...

LOS ANGELES -- An openly gay man was voted prom queen at Los Angeles' Fairfax High School in a campaign that began as a stunt but ended up spurring discussion on the campus about gender roles and teen popularity. Sergio Garcia, 18, was crowned queen Saturday night at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. "I feel invincible," Garcia said in his tiara and charcoal-gray tuxedo. A few days earlier, he gave a speech that won over some cynics and led to an ovation and his unlikely victory. "At one time, prom may have been a big popularity contest where the best-looking guy...

<p>LOS ANGELES – An openly gay teen was voted prom queen at Los Angeles' Fairfax High School in a campaign that began as a stunt . . . .</p>

LOS ANGELES -- An openly gay teen is the new prom queen at Fairfax High School. Sergio Garcia, 18, was crowned queen Saturday night at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. "I feel invincible," Garcia said wearing his rhinestone studded tiara. A few days earlier, he gave a speech that touched a nerve with students: "At one time, prom may have been a big popularity contest where the best-looking guy or girl were crowned king and queen. Things have changed and it's no longer just about who has the most friends or who wears the coolest clothes," Garcia told a gymnasium full...

Teens from the Gilbert Greenfield Stake are Janis Macdonald, left, Dallin Gillette, Morgan Rogers, Aaron Gillette, Lindsay Olsen and Stephen Anderson. Photos: Courtesy of Spring Formal 2009 GILBERT, Ariz. -- A ticket to the prom costs around $50. For a couple, that means $100. Buying a dress, renting a tux, finding shoes, a corsage, a boutonniere, pictures and going to a nice dinner means, all in all, your average high school prom can run upwards of $300. But many Mormon parents and teens worry about the atmosphere of a dance that costs so much. The leadership of the Gilbert Greenfield...

Sarah Heideman's dreams went up in smoke, literally, last weekend when she and her date were barred from entering their senior prom at Colorado's Brighton High School. Her boyfriend of two years reeked of pot, and police refused to let him in to the dance. But Jason Schweinsberg, who is often wracked with pain because of injuries from a car accident, has a legal prescription for medical marijuana. Now, Heideman, 18, has retained a lawyer and wants someone to pay for the $500 she had spent on her dress, dinner, hair and prom tickets. "I was crying horribly and sometimes...

Tyler Frost, 17, a senior at Heritage Christian School in Findlay, Ohio has been suspended for attending a prom with his girlfriend because the Findlay High School’s prom allowed dancing and music. This Taliban-like ruling is based on the Christian school’s policy that forbids dancing, rock music, hand holding and kissing. Principal Tim England says that Frost was supposed to receive his diploma on May 24 but will now receive an “incomplete” on his remaining assignments. He absence will be hard to miss: he is in a class of four students. England further threatens that, if he learns that Frost...

A Pennsylvania high school ordered more than 450 shot glasses for its prom, a move the assistant principal now says sent the wrong message. As the Warwick High School students left last week's dance, the prom committee handed them souvenir shot glasses. The girls who attended last year's prom got a picture frame; the boys, a money clip. Assistant Principal Scott Galen says: "Unfortunately, this year the junior class didn't have quite as much money." Galen says the principal signed off on the purchase order, but that paperwork simply said "prom souvenir" and didn't identify the mementos as shot glasses....

A student at a fundamentalist Baptist school that forbids dancing, rock music, hand-holding and kissing will be suspended if he takes his girlfriend to her public high school prom, his principal said. Despite the warning, 17-year-old Tyler Frost, who has never been to a dance before, said he plans to attend Findlay High School's prom Saturday. Frost, a senior at Heritage Christian School in northwest Ohio, agreed to the school's rules when he signed a statement of cooperation at the beginning of the year, principal Tim England said.

Lebanon - A 17-year-old gay female student at Lebanon High School is challenging the school's prom dress code. The teenager has filed suit after she was told by the principal that she couldn't wear a tuxedo to the April prom.

David Upchurch escorted the then 18-year-old Michelle Robinson to the prom at Whitney M Young High School in Chicago in 1982. Now a customer service representative and divorced father of three living in a modest house in Colorado Springs, he said that their romance went nowhere. He claimed he had "pretty much forgotten" their prom date together and couldn't even recall if it ended with a kiss. Mr Upchurch, the first of Mrs Obama's former boyfriends to speak publicly about their relationship, knew her family from an early age as they were both raised in Chicago's South Side. "I grew...

Fer your enjoyment... A photograph has surfaced of Michelle Obama, wife of US President Barack Obama, at her High School prom with her first 'boyfriend', David Upchurch. Dressed in a low-cut gown, the then 18-year-old Michelle Robinson was escorted to her prom at Whitney M. Young Magnet High School in Chicago by Mr Upchurch. It came seven years before she met her future husband Barack at the Sidley Austin law firm, also in Chicago, where they both worked. Mr Upchurch, 47, now a divorced father-of-three who lives in Colorado Springs and works as a customer service representative, said he had...

The Community Renewal Society presentsHere’s to You CATALYST’s 10th Anniversary Prom Save the date! To order tickets, call our promline: (312) 427-4830, ext. 1-300.Se Habla Espanol  Saturday, February 12, 2000 Grand Ballroom, Navy Pier  Honorary Committee Joanne Alter, FounderWorking In The SchoolsArnita Boswell, Founder, Board MemberNational Hook Up of Black WomenJulie Chavez, Managing DirectorBank of America IllinoisRonald Gidwitz, PartnerGCG PartnersSandra Guthman, PresidentPolk Bros. FoundationLeon Jackson, PresidentMulti-Fac CorporationR. Eden Martin, PresidentCivic Committee, Commercial Club of ChicagoRichard Morrow, Retired Chairman and CEOAmoco CorporationAdele Simmons, Vice PresidentChicago Metropolis 2020Rev. Kenneth W. Smith, Senior FellowChicago Community TrustChristina Tchen, PartnerSkadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &...

Lisa Pickin arrived in style at her 2008 high-school prom in this middle-class town an hour east of London. The stretch Jeep limo, lilac ball gown and accessories cost her parents about £550, or $1,080. Her upswept blond curls took her aunt two hours to fashion. Britain, the land of school uniforms, rigorous exams and ivy-covered school halls, is embracing an American invasion: the high-school prom. British teenagers say they've seen the events in movies like "American Pie" and television shows such as "The O.C.," and they want the chance to dress up and rent limousines themselves. That means a...

Should the high school prom be renamed the high school porno? They call it "grinding" or "freak dancing" when students grind their pelvises into each other to the beat of sexually explicit music, sometimes in chains of three or four or more. This kind of dancing is so commonplace with high-school students that some parents and cultural writers are suggesting all attempts at school dancing decorum should be abandoned. In The Washington Post, reporter Laura Sessions Stepp recently tried to talk herself and her readership into finding a different war to fight, since dancing regulations only spur a debate with...

Man won’t be allowed to be prom queen at ParkBY PAUL SLOTH Journal Times Friday, May 2, 2008 11:55 PM CDT Uriel Gomez poses Thursday outside of Park High School. Gomez, a senior, is openly gay, and was on the ballot for both prom queen and prom king. On Friday, school officials said his name will not be allowed on the girls’ side of the ballot. Photo by Mark Hertzberg of The Journal Times RACINE — A Park High School student who thought he might have a shot at being prom queen could still get crowned king. School officials have...

School officials have informed Pope that since Francisco Velasco, is 21, he is too old to attend the function Saturday night. Principal Robert McBride says the main reason is that 21 is the legal age for alcohol consumption. Velasco, who is stationed at Fort Lee, Va. received permission from his superiors to fly to Chicago for the weekend just for the dance, but since he can't attend, Pope has decided to skip the function.

A school board in Arizona has decided that condoms are among the items that should be given to students attending this year's prom. The school board in the Bisbee District voted 4-1 at a recent meeting to include the condoms in a "prom bag" that will be given to prom-goers this year. A spokeswoman in the office of Supt. Paul McDonald confirmed the condoms would be handed out to the event celebrants, along with other items such as picture frames, balloons and candy. "The governing board approved [this]," she told WND. "They are to have what they call prom bags,...

Some Union teens choose LDS prom JOE MARUSAK Imagine a high school prom where dates are optional, the dress code is modest and the lyrics are clean. Imagine one that's free. Students from Union, Mecklenburg and surrounding counties have enjoyed such annual gatherings since 2003 through the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The LDS proms, as the students and parents call them, are for ages 16-18 only and are held at a different LDS church throughout the region each year. This year's is March 15 at the LDS building on Lazy Lane in Mooresville. The proms draw up...

PONTIAC, Ill., Jan. 4 (UPI) -- A man caught breaking into a Rent-A-Center store in Pontiac, Ill., to steal big screen TVs said he turned to crime to pay for his daughter's prom. Manual Gaines was spotted after police officers on patrol heard breaking glass outside the business, The Bloomington (Ill.) Pantagraph reported Friday. Officers chased a stolen van onto Interstate 55 and found more than $10,000 worth of plasma screen televisions inside the abandoned vehicle. Gaines, 36, was arrested in a field nearby where he was trying to hide.

Marin Teen Turns Into Prom-Dressed Crime Fighter POSTED: 10:35 am PDT April 27, 2007 SAN FRANCISCO -- Superman might have his cape, but Marin Academy sophomore Erin Schrode has a prom dress, tiara and combat boots. San Francisco police were crediting Schrode with chasing down two thieves while wearing her prom dress, a tiara and combat boots after they allegedly stole a purse and laptop from her friends at a Union Square rally earlier this week. Schrode and her friends were part of "Project Prom" -- a teen rally for safe cosmetics that was being staged in the middle of...

Rosanne Strott says she was not trying to make a political statement. She just wanted to invite a close friend to Friday night's prom at Bishop Feehan High School. The problem was, that friend was a woman. Catholic Diocese officials barred the same-sex couple from attending the prom together.

As they stepped out of cars and limousines and made last-minute adjustments to their outfits, most Fresno High School students seemed reluctant to talk about the reason their prom had become national news. They were all well-dressed, they all smiled -- but most politely said "no thank you" when asked about a classmate nominated for prom queen who ran for prom king instead

The theme of "Bittersweet Memories" given to a prom for Higgins High School seniors turned out oddly appropriate, thanks to a flap about whether dresses were too revealing. Many West Bank families were fuming Saturday after a teacher refused to allow dozens of girls into the prom Friday night because of alleged violations of the Jefferson Parish Schools dress code, most of them related to excessive display of cleavage. "I was embarrassed," said Miranda Melerine (right), 17, a senior at the Marrero high school, who was among those barred by teacher Judy Gardner, an advisor to senior activities. "We can't...

(AP) PITTSBURGH The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit Tuesday against a Beaver County school district for suspending a student who mentioned the Columbine shooting after allegedly being teased and referred to as "Osama bin Laden." The lawsuit against the New Brighton Area School District was filed in U.S. District Court on behalf of Cory Johnson, 18, who graduated last spring. Johnson missed his senior prom and was suspended for 10 days from New Brighton Area High School for telling another student in April, "If I were Osama, I would already have pulled a Columbine." ACLU attorneys contend Johnson was...

What were they thinking? That must have been the reaction of school officials, when they learned that seniors in the H-B Woodlawn Program planned to distribute liquor-style flasks to those attending the school's annual informal prom. Whatever the students were thinking, what school officials were thinking, it turns out, could be summed up in three words: “No you don't.” “Students didn't make the right decision, so we had to step in,” Woodlawn principal Frank Haltiwanger told the Sun Gazette. “It was a very inappropriate prom gift, and an action taken by a small group of students without the knowledge, or...

Cross-dressing teen barred from senior prom http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/prom24.html May 24, 2006 FROM STNG WIRE REPORTS GARY, Ind. -- The prom ticket was in hand: $85. The fuschia, slinky prom dress and strappy heels were ready. The whole week of giddy anticipation and pampering -- more than $200 worth of a manicure, pedicure and hair set -- was set to culminate with the grand walk into the glam ball. But when Kevin Logan, a transgender and gay student at Gary’s West Side High School, arrived last Friday at Avalon Manor in Hobart for his prom, he was banned by Principal Diane Rouse....

DMV agents look inside; Belman driver refuses to allow access, citing clients' privacy. Date published: 5/22/2006 Department of Motor Vehicles staff brought a search tactic reportedly used at Northern Virginian proms a little farther south Saturday night. As limousines pulled up to Colonial Forge High School's junior-senior prom, DMV agents asked to search the vehicles. Most drivers agreed to the searches, except for one. Prom-goers began arriving at the Fredericksburg Expo & Conference Center around 8 p.m. Once limousine drivers dropped off passengers, DMV enforcement agents asked to see chauffeur licenses and to search vehicles for alcohol and drugs. Most...

My son was on the phone for hours last week, negotiating, sometimes even arguing, with his friends. The prom was coming up and his gang was trying to figure out where to go post-party, whether they should rent a limo, or buy corsages for their girlfriends. (My son's girlfriend does not want a corsage: The pin will leave marks on her dress, she says. Good for her. Less money for me.) The whole thing has become ridiculously expensive; when my daughter graduated from high school four years ago, we went from store to store gown shopping and it was a...

Educator Asks To Take Student To Prom: PASADENA, Texas -- A city of South Houston teacher was placed on administrative leave, accused of having an improper relationship with a student, KPRC Local 2 reported Monday. Officials at South Houston High School said they began asking questions after the English teacher, Sean Eckman, 29, asked his principal if he could take a 17-year-old student to prom. "He asked for permission to take her to the prom. He said he was a family friend and that the parents had agreed that it would be OK," said Kirk Lewis, the Pasadena Independent School...

It was a typical scene on prom night. A boy, stiffly dressed in eveningwear, waits it out in the living room. His date has yet to make an appearance, but the frantic rushing in and out of a mother, an aunt, a female cousin, announce that progress is being made. The front door stands open, allowing neighbors, high school friends, little brothers, to come, go, comment, encourage, heckle, observe and mingle within the communal scene that is senior prom night. However, Clinton High School senior Krystle Gutman and her boyfriend, Clinton High junior T.J. Daugherty, delight in being different....

My 17-year old daughter is going to her first prom tonight. The date seems to be a decent enough kid, although he's a little too much into love of his car. I'm looking for suggestions on a good "safety and respect" speech to be delivered to this young man. I've thought of taking out and sharpening my Dad's Korean war souvenir bayonet in front of him (just to focus his attention), but that may be too dramatic.Suggestions?

A Cape Cod teen is all dressed up with no place to go after her high school snooped into her boyfriend’s past and banned him from the prom after learning he’d been convicted of pot possession. “It’s like a smack in the face,” said 18-year-old Erica Eckert, one of two seniors whose non-student boyfriends were too bad for the big dance. “I’m honestly not sure what I want to do,” she said in a tearful interview last night. Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School banned Eckert’s 19-year-old boyfriend from Saturday’s soiree after a criminal background check turned up a past marijuana possession...

It’s Prom season, when many parents worry about drinking and driving. But one school is taking a proactive approach to keep its students safe. Elkhart Central High School recently started giving random alcohol breath tests to prom-goers. Roughly, 10-20% of the students will be given the tests, for prom next week, as they drive up to the event. The school says in two years that they have done it, no students have tested positive. “I feel that kids need to be aware that this is going on, so that there’s no drunk driving on prom night,” senior Sarah Fischer told...

CARRIERE - U.S. Marines can travel "from the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli," but not to the senior prom at Pearl River Central High School. The school's age policy prohibits a high school senior from taking her 21-year-old boyfriend to the prom. Christopher Raffo and Leah Lott, students at different schools, began dating about four years ago, when both were lifeguards at Hide-A-Way Lake. He was a senior and she was a freshman, and since then, they have dated off and on. Now Lott is a senior at Pearl River Central and Raffo is a Marine headed...

High school is full of difficult choices, and some students Friday were trying to pick from an improbable trinity: reading, writhing or religion. And amid the unfortunate confluence of class work, the prom and Good Friday, something had to give. "There was, like, no one coming to school today," Sequoyah High senior Christa Wilkie said Friday. "[On Thursday] in lit class they asked who was going to be here Friday and no one raised their hands." Two schools held their proms on Good Friday, and at least eight others across metro Atlanta, from Coweta to Cobb, are throwing the dance...

Mayra Hernandez and Lesly Hernandez planned to look pretty for the Ennis High School senior prom on Saturday night. But they won't be going because they joined a protest. "We all bought dresses, accessories, and we rented a limo and all that," Mayra said. "Now all that money is just going to waste." Thousands of North Texas students skipped classes this week to demonstrate against the immigration bill now being considered by the U.S. Congress. About 130 Ennis ISD students—from sixth graders to seniors—joined in Thursday, despite a school district warning that any student participating would be suspended until Monday,...

Several Ennis High School seniors have been barred from their school prom tonight for protesting Thursday against proposed federal immigration legislation. School officials suspended 120 to 130 students from classes Friday and barred them from school events this weekend, including sporting events and the prom. The students attend Ennis High School, Ennis Junior High and the Sixth Grade Center. "We got suspended, and we're not allowed to go to prom for standing up for something that we believe is right," said senior Araceli Garcia, 18.

Laura Murphy planned on attending her prom at Villa Maria Academy. She paid the $100 deposit, scheduled a limousine rental and asked her date. She ran into a snag, however, and it has nothing to do with what shoes to wear. Administrators of the private, all-girls Catholic high school school don't like Murphy's choice of companion, and they've told her to find someone else or come alone. Murphy, a senior who is openly lesbian, wants to bring her girlfriend of six months, Lindsey Shelton, and believes school administrators are discriminating against them. "They said, "We want it to be traditional....

GLAM GAL: "You only do prom once, and I've been planning this for over a year," says Brooklyn 17-year-old Jenna Cossuto. Photo: Graham Morrison Jenna Cossuto spent $2,400 on her custom-made dress. She'll rent a 22-seat stretch Hummer to transport her closest friends to privately booked Gotham Hall. And then it's off to the swanky South Street Seaport at Bridgewater and afterward, a party in Crobar's VIP section before a long weekend in a Hamptons beach house. But this once-in-a-lifetime weekend isn't for Cossuto's wedding. It's for this 17-year-old's senior prom. She's part of a growing generation of teens...

At prim prom, no freaking allowed CONTRA COSTA: Local Mormon church members offer alternative for high school students who disdain dirty dancing By Linda Davis CONTRA COSTA TIMES The dresses will be at least below the knee. The boys will use proper etiquette. The music will have no swear words or sexual innuendo, and the dancing will strictly be vertical. After all the local hubbub over freak dancing at school dances in the past few months, Mormon church members were inspired to create an "alternative prom" for students. No freak dancing will be allowed -- period. "We wanted to do...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A former high school student barred from her prom because she wore a dress styled as a Confederate battle flag has reached a settlement with the school district, her attorney said. Jacqueline Duty filed a lawsuit after Greenup County school officials called the dress too controversial and kept her out of Russell High School's May 1, 2004 prom. Duty claimed the district violated her First Amendment right to free speech and to celebrate her heritage. School officials notified the U.S. District Court last week about the settlement. Duty's attorney, Earl-Ray Neal, confirmed a settlement had been...

If only we had a photo of Eric Govan's face at the moment it happened. Govan, as you may have heard, is the Golden State Warriors' PR assistant who inadvertently sent a wildly inappropriate e-mail called "ghetto prom" to the news media. Not just the local news media, but ESPN, CBS, Sports Illustrated and other publications. Oops. It was the ultimate Internet nightmare, and Govan had to have known it instantly. There must have been a second, perhaps with his finger still on the "send'' key, when he thought, "Oh my God, I believe my career has just spontaneously burst...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - The public relations manager for the Golden State Warriors was fired Wednesday for inadvertently sending out a racially insensitive e-mail titled "Ghetto Prom" to the team's entire media distribution list. Eric Govan, the No. 3 person on the Warriors' media relations staff, sent the e-mail featuring 17 photos, many depicting scantily clad black people in formal attire and commentary on the outfits. The e-mail went to dozens of newspaper reporters, columnists and sports editors as well as television and radio stations. "It came to my attention moments ago that one of our employees had inadvertently sent...

FREMONT, Calif., June 7 — The trappings of a typical high school prom were all there: the strobe lights, the garlands, the crepe pineapple centerpieces and even a tiara for the queen. In fact, Fatima Haque's prom tonight had practically everything one might expect on one of a teenage girl's most important nights. Except boys. Ms. Haque and her friends may have helped initiate a new American ritual: the all-girl Muslim prom. It is a spirited response to religious and cultural beliefs that forbid dating, dancing with or touching boys or appearing without a hijab, the Islamic head scarf. While...