Posted on 05/28/2009 9:00:10 AM PDT by SmithL
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 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 of seniors. "I'm not your typical prom queen candidate. There's more to me than meets the eye."
Garcia assured the crowd he wouldn't wear a dress on prom night.
"I will be wearing a suit," he said. "But don't be fooled, deep down I am a queen."
The school, which sits at the end of the rows of chic shops on Melrose Avenue and was once attended by members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, has long been a haven for students who would be considered outcasts at many schools.
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Well isn’t that special.
Sad!
Who was voted King?? One of the stars of the girl’s field hockey team??
Who’s the lucky King?
Yeah, now it's all about who has the trendiest proclivities, apparently.
I see a cheesy B-Movie plot on the horizont.
Man...it just gets better and better, doesn’t it? I busted a gut the other day when Rush was talking about the flapdoodle over Lindsay Lohan’s girlfriends Jewish parents not wanting them to marry because Lindsay was...GASP!!!...Catholic.
Yeah it is about dumbing down the definitions and distinctions of everything that they see as an affront to them. This is a testament to the lack of education in public schools or rather the wrong kind of education.
Another reason to home school.
“Baravelli may look like an idiot, and he may sound like an idiot. But don’t let that fool you, he really is an idiot!” -Groucho Marx(quoting from memory here).
Well, I’m so pleased that Mr. Garcia is really a queen, “deep down.”
Man, when perversion is treated as normal, Hell is right around the corner.
I feel sorry for the king but I also feel sorry for the girls who lost out to this freak. It's as if every day someplace in America tries to set a new low.
Welcome to the world’s largest outdoor insane asylum.
Face palm.
The inmates are running the asylum.But that's not news.
The liberals have destroyed our childrens’ minds.
Well ladies, a position that was set aside for you was usurped by a man. How do you feel?
OK. We get it. A dude wins prom queen. It’s not new and daring anymore, get over yourselves highschoolers.
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