Lesbian teen left out of high school yearbook
By Ruth Schneider, 365gay.com
04.30.2010 10:38am EDT
Constance McMillen isn’t the only lesbian student in Mississippi facing discrimination at school. Ceara Sturgis, a student at Wesson Attendance Center, feels it too.
Earlier in the school year, Sturgis, a lesbian, asked her school to include a picture of her in the yearbook wearing a tuxedo rather than a dress. School officials balked.
The American Civil Liberties Union joined in the fight, sending a letter to the school demanding Sturgis’ tuxedo photo be used. The school still refused.
When Sturgis flipped through her high school yearbook, handed out last Friday, she found no reference to herself. No picture. No name. Nothing.
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