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Related: About this forumLas Vegas Walmart Reportedly Refuses To Print 'Gay' On Cake For Gay-Straight Prom 'Couple'
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/05/gay-straight-promposal-cake-_n_7216352.html?cps=gravity_2425_-4954280391707838400
The Huffington Post | By Curtis M. Wong
Posted: 05/05/2015 9:13 pm EDT Updated: 36 minutes ago
Two Nevada teens -- one gay and one straight -- have become Internet sensations in the wake of their viral promposal, but a new wrinkle in what had been a heartwarming story has emerged.
Jennifer Sandoval, the aunt of one of the teens, told local Fox affiliate KVVU-TV that employees at a Las Vegas Walmart refused to include the word "gay" on a surprise cake she bought for the duo. Sandoval's nephew is Anthony Martinez, who attended the Desert Oasis High School junior prom with his straight best friend, Jacob Lescenski, on May 2.
In a Teen Vogue video profile of Lescenski and Martinez, which can be seen below, Sandoval revealed the original inscription she'd hoped to have written on the icing: "You're gay, he's straight, you're going to prom, you couldn't have had a better date."
After the Walmart associates refused to print the word "gay," she opted for, "You matter, prom kings."
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Las Vegas Walmart Reportedly Refuses To Print 'Gay' On Cake For Gay-Straight Prom 'Couple' (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
May 2015
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PHOTOS: Gay/Straight BFFs Have Best Prom Ever, Despite Walmart Cake Controversy
DonViejo
May 2015
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DonViejo
(60,536 posts)1. PHOTOS: Gay/Straight BFFs Have Best Prom Ever, Despite Walmart Cake Controversy
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)2. While Walmart corporate mouths it support LGBT...
It allows this at its stores...it's called talking out of both sides of its mouth...most coprorations do it.
jmowreader
(50,528 posts)3. Three problems here
1) Walmart employees REALLY need to grow the hell up.
2) Even if they would have agreed to write that poem on the cake, it wouldn't have fit.
and 3) Could someone have a long talk with Jacob about that fucked-up haircut?
RKP5637
(67,086 posts)4. K&R!!! n/t