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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The Prom King is bummed, this wasn’t quite what he was hoping for.
A slow dance cheek to cheek with a guy in a tux that is very happy, (gay even) to be rubbing up to you.
Home school all you want.
One day your children are going to have to step out into the real world.
You can’t protect them forever.
He doesnt even realize he was made a fool!
I feel sorry for him.
Pathetic
Oh?
Ever hear of HIV, your Highness?
I dont think Ill be able to home school but Ill live in poverty if it means paying tuition to a good Christian School!
Mike,
While their is truth to what you say their is also truth to the fact most people are pretty set in their beliefs by the time they are 20. Some will radically change but for the most part people sway to the left or right just a bit.
Id rather have my 17yo going to college who has been taught right from wrong than send on who was taught wrong *is* right.
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My mother would sit with me at night and watch the news, we would discuss it, she would ask me about what I learned at school and we would discuss it...
I’ll never forget the time in 7th grade I came home and told her how cool communism was... She shot it down in 5 minutes and I have never looked back.
The problem is not exclusively the schools but the parents not being active in their kids moral education. Chances are if you are a home schooler you ar active in your kids moral education (though you dont need to be a home schooler for that)
This generation will not be driven to breed..... they will make good slaves.
“good Christian School” good luck. If you find one you are blessed, it will probably be small, because people want the protection of the Christian school, but not the religion. If you are a strong Christian and your spouse as well, you will not get a better Christian education than homeschooling.....find a Homeschool co-op and share the education with like minded people.
If you insist on sending them to a Christian School look for one that holds to “classical education” principles. Your children will learn not just about God, Jesus and the bible, but will actually be highly intelligent in their thinking. Most people have to choose between good education and a Christian education. Sorry but it is true!
Fairfax HS? Man, things have changed. That was a predominately jewish high school back in the sixties. One football team we knew we could always beat...........
“The school......has long been a haven for students who would be considered outcasts at many schools.”
Like this Queen, and the misfits who elected it.
“If you are a strong Christian and your spouse as well, you will not get a better Christian education than homeschooling.....find a Homeschool co-op and share the education with like minded people.”
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Problem with that is, and I wish the free republic home schooling cheering section would get this into their heads, due to health or finance or other situational reasons not everyone can home school. I love you guys deeply but you seem incapable of realizing not everyone’s lives allow for home schooling.
I’m not looking for a Christian school to teach my kids the roots of Christian theology as you say the basics are enough. Ill settle for a conservative ecumenical school who will leave social issues to me and tell me what they are teaching my kids. That’s all I need, I (and my church) will take care of their spiritual upbringing.
My heart goes out to this young man. He’s been deceived and I pray for his deliverance. God help our youth.
students who would be considered outcasts at many schools,no kidding.
“I’ve attended both public and private Christian schools and am the son of a Baptist minister. While I agree that it is the parent’s job is to provide their children with a solid moral compass I’ve seen many sheltered children who are simply unequipped to deal with the realities that exist in the real world upon leaving the nest.
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Mike I think the mistake many people make is in hiding their kids from the world instead of guiding them from it. From the time I was ten issues like Abortion, Homosexuality, Racism/quotas and the like were common discussion after dinner at my household.
While I still got a few shocks as to how bad things were in college I had solid enough roots to keep me grounded. I agree with you that this can happen in a good public school, a good private school, or with good homeschooling parents... there is no silver bullet.
But when public schools are increasingly of the mind that what they teach your kids is none of your business I would be mighty careful what public school you put your kid in..
I resent the “home schooling cheering section comment†but I realize you have no understanding of the advantages of home schooling, and for some of us, it meant a huge sacrifice, financially and socially in order to give this gift to our children. Not everyone can home school...but there is opportunity to always teach....it is what you do with your time, talent and treasure.....never settle....that is what the majority of parents are doing today...and this all started because of the article above...we see where the lines are crossed....I chose not to allow my children to be in the cross hairs of society, I CHOSE NOT TO SETTLE, but to have a say in where they spend the majority of their day and what they are learning....i would rather spend 1 hour and learn about the efforts of people like Benjamin Rush and S.Truth...than hours of social rights of gay people ...an inconvenient truth and the life of Barack Obama told over and over again.
I teach at a large urban high school.
@ years ago, the most popular male student was a flaming homosexual.
Many reasons to home school.
The problem is not exclusively the schools but the parents not being active in their kids moral education.
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I see a problem here.
The government forces children into the government schools and teaches them how cool communism (homosexuality, earth worship, atheism,...etc.) is. The parent then must: 1) Be lucky enough to find out this has happened, and 1) "unteach" what the government has forced on the child.
Looks like government abuse to me.
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