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The petition, started by Josh Powell reads: Recall Governor Whitmer. Her failure’s during the Covid-19 Corona Virus is causing more Michiganders to get sick. Closing and banning various non essential business’s and activities while leaving others open. Further promoting the pandemic. She has lied since day one with her #Fixthedamnroads which she has failed to do anything in this regards. The response to #PFAS was negligence and completely removing funding for #PureMichigan clearly shows her lack of anything positive for the State of Michigan. You can visit the petition here.

A Lesbian high school couple claimed they were not allowed into a prom court because of their sexuality. Shenta Knox announced on Twitter on April 26 she was running for prom queen and her girlfriend, Sam Washburn, for prom king because Morton Ranch High School in Texas does not provide two queen slots. The students said they were 'confident' of receiving lots of votes so were shocked to heard they had failed to win a place when the results came out, leading to them thinking they could have been barred due to their sexuality. 'I was feeling confident but then...

Some girls at La Guardia HS of Music & Art and Performing Arts were not amused that a boy stole their stiletto-heeled thunder and became this year’s prom queen — and their claws have come out on social ­media. “I know I go to LaGuardia because a boy won prom queen,” snarked Asia Pierre in a Facebook post that attracted 500 homophobic comments and 100 shares before it was removed. “It just sucks that men win everything and we thought we at least deserve that,” wrote a classmate under the name Taj Mahal. Matthew Crisson, an 18-year-old Staten Islander who self-identifies...

A transgender student says being named prom queen was the cherry on top of her high school education. "I was really surprised," Connor Ferguson, an 18-year-old male-to-female transgender student at Trenton High School, said of the win. "It was pretty surreal actually. If I remember correctly my jaw hit the floor and we all started laughing because it was so crazy. I walked up and the crown didn't fit my hair, so I had to hold it."

DAVIE— Transgender teen Andrew Viveros, 17, was crowned prom queen on Friday at the Hyatt Regency Pier 66 in Fort Lauderdale. Viveros, a graduating senior at McFatter Technical High School in Davie, said he wasn't sure he would win. "Then they called my name and I was in complete shock," said Viveros, a Davie resident and president of the school's Gay-Straight Alliance.

PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. (AP) -- A male South Florida high school student who ran for prom queen in drag has been suspended from the dance because of a parking violation. Flanagan High School's principal had two meetings with senior Oscar Bonilla because administrators were concerned about his safety if he wore a dress to prom

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...

No Name Calling Week?     1/12/2005By Warren Throckmorton, Ph.D.Yes, name-calling is wrong. But this event’s sponsors reveal the agenda behind banning it. “There is a special place in hell for people like you!” These words were directed at me by a teacher during this past summer’s National Education Association (NEA) convention in Washington, D.C. This delegate to the NEA convention made his prediction in response to my presence at the NEA’s Ex-Gay Educators’ Caucus booth in the convention exhibit hall. His cheery salutation caught me off-guard given the message of tolerance and acceptance I had been hearing around the exhibit hall....

Diploma another dream come true for graduate By Michelle Dynes rep2@wyomingnews.com Published in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle CHEYENNE - Kara Durako said there are three things every teenage girl wants: to be prom queen, to have children and to graduate from high school. This year Durako was named prom queen; her daughter, Kaitlyn, celebrated her first birthday; and she earned her high school diploma from Cheyenne's Triumph High on Thursday. "I've been looking forward to this since I knew what graduation was," she said. "I've had a kid. I've been prom queen. Now I have to graduate." The 16-year-old also was...