MORE ON OUR BOULDER STUDENTS! EARLIER PROTEST/GIRLS KISSING

[Maddy McCall]

http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=3600

Boulder: Students protest censored yearbook photo

After a photograph of two girls kissing was pulled from the Boulder High School yearbook, students staged a same-sex “kiss-in” in protest. Student Worker, an activist student group, and Boulder High’s Gay-Straight Alliance organized the protest.

A statement from Student Worker said the protest would “demonstrate solidarity, from both heterosexual and homosexual students, with kids who must endure unfair treatment and policies because of their sexual orientation or perceived sexual orientation.” A Boulder High senior added, “It’s really a protest about homophobia in the system and in the schools themselves.”

According to the yearbook adviser, “The decision was made out of consideration for the kids and their families.” She had asked the student photographer to clear publishing the photo with both girls’ parents. The advisor feared that the parents might not have known about their daughters’ sexual orientation. When she did not hear from the parents, the photo was pulled from the yearbook.

Some students claimed the yearbook advisor was guilty of a double standard because photos of heterosexual couples kissing did not require parental approval. The mother of one of the girls called the decision not to publish the photo “very hypocritical.” One of the girls pictured agreed, “I didn’t like it because the other people did not have to get parent confirmation and I did.”

About 150 students gathered in support of the dozen kiss-in participants. Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and straight students were encouraged to kiss one another during the hour-long protest. Students from other schools participated as well.

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These kids are true progressives. We must support them any way we can. Their actions will spark a wildfire that will cover this nation.

:yourock: Boulder kids!!

[Pithlet]

1. Good for them!

There is hope for the future, as corny as that sounds. This Bush "victory" is just a bump in the road. This NEVER would have happened when I was in highschool, and that was only 14 years or so ago.

[Justice]

2. In NH, there was a boy that wanted his yearbook photo to include a gun

People thought it was wrong for him to pose with a gun for a school photo. In the end, school officials made the decision, based on their policies. Seems to me this is similiar.

[hedavis]

3. weird! I had a dream ...

About staging a kiss-in last night.

Granted, I'm 26 years old and my dream was set in a mall but it seems the youth of America have the same dreams I do! Hope they can beat out the queer-fear across the nation!!