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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“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.” —
Personally I don’t care if you resent it, I’m not some mealy RINO that balks if you’re offended. I know what I meant and if you took it the wrong way that’s on you. I know there are huge advantages to homeschooling and I know its *always* a sacrifice. What *you* don’t seem to realize is sometimes its too much of a sacrifice. I would rather have a healthy spouse and kids in a christian school than to risk the health of a spouse for the pride of homeschooling (and yes there is a huge sin of pride around FR on the part of *many* homeschoolers).
“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.”
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The dichotomy you have created makes a great case for you but it is in fact a patently *false* dichotomy. There are charter schools, private schools, and even a few decent public schools left out there.
Obama would hit it.
“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.”
No doubt that’s true it does not change the fact that a public or even private school is no excuse not to be involved in your kids education..
I long for the day when girls were girls and men were men.
Thank you...you just made a strong argument for School choice!!!
Great discussion...I like a good debate!
It still is that day in most places and if we continue to stand up we will push the dark tide back.
We pulled a stunt like that when I was a college freshman at a small liberal arts college in 1971. Only the guy who ran for prom queen wasn’t gay. He was a butt ugly hippie and had a great sense of humor.
He only lost by a few votes, but we really pi$$ed off the sororities and the administration.
Yes, for many reasons many parents must institutionalize their children for their school. It is a shame, but necessary.
We need orphanages too, but no one is claiming this is the best way to rear a child.
I feel sorry for the girls that had their heart set on running or winning the queen title. How many hearts were broken and joy was taken away from a girl who would have had a night to remeber. What a selfish person to have accepted it.
Does this guy wish he was a girl, or just wish he was guy who was allowed to act like a girl? Or is he just a goofball trying to thumb his nose against the establishment, even though the establishment in LA probably thinks he’s cute and wants meet him in a rest stop mensroom.
I just feel sorry for the Prom King assuming he’s one of those unevolved heterosexuals.
“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.”
Who said anything about protecting them from the world? Apparently you know little about good home schooling. FYI: I am an educator who worked in the public school system for several years. Although there are some good schools, they are few and good home schooling assures quality and achievement with plenty of access to the real world. ;-)
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