<p>[L.A</a>. school picks gay teen as prom queen - USATODAY.com](<a href=“http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-05-28-prom-queen_N.htm?csp=usat.me]L.A”>http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-05-28-prom-queen_N.htm?csp=usat.me)</p>
<p>It’s been funny seeing threads about stories on CNN and stuff by people with first hand knowledge of the situation. Well I actually know this guy!</p>
<p>Thoughts?</p>
<p>Our prom king this year is gay…I actually think that would be insulting to him to name him prom queen.</p>
<p>A school in my area had a gay prince for homecoming last fall. Fred Phelps and his WBC went and protested in front of the school and the students counter-protested. It caused quite a stir.</p>
<p>It shouldn’t be a big deal.</p>
<p>And I approve of this action.</p>
<p>There’s nothing wrong with a gay prom king/prince. I don’t see how that relates to a gay male prom queen. </p>
<p>I just think it’s unfair to the girls who wanted to win the title. The guy should have run for prom king and I’m sure he would have won.</p>
<p>Guys shouldn’t be prom queen. They should be prom king. And it shouldn’t be this big of a deal. At my school it was sort of a big deal when the senior “Cutest Couple” in the yearbook was a lesbian couple, but when our homecoming prince was gay, no one cared in the least.</p>
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I remember my dad getting ****ed off about that, he was listening to Rush Limbaugh (ugh). IMO If the two cutest people in school are female, they are the cutest couple, why the controversy?</p>
<p>And gay guys should be the prom king.</p>
<p>This would be such a huge deal if it happened at my school. Not sure if the administration would allow it.</p>
<p>Why not? Gay guys are basically girls in male bodies.</p>
<p>^ No, sweetie. That would be a transsexual.</p>
<p>My school had a gay homecoming king a couple years ago. Nobody really cared.</p>
<p>Lol I was just about to post this on CC after I read about it!!</p>
<p>He’s the hottest prom queen I’ve ever seen.</p>
<p>One of the students in the article is called Unique Payne.</p>
<p>Now, it’s not like I don’t have a potentially funny name too, but that made me laugh.</p>
<p>I disagree with that. He should be the prom king.</p>
<p>Hey, the students voted him in as prom queen, so he won it fair and square. Good for him!</p>
<p>Sigh… when did sexual orientation redefine gender too? He should have been prom king instead. </p>
<p>Oh well, the mob has voted.</p>
<p>I don’t think he should have been named Queen either, but whatever. </p>
<p>Could the kids have done it to be d!cks and made him the “Queen” when he is a boy? I could see kids doing it.</p>
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<p>Yeah I think that’s a very real possibility.</p>
<p>He signed up to run for queen. He wanted it.</p>
<p>This is an interesting dialogue, right after the CA Supreme Court upheld the Prop 8 anti-gay marriage initiaitive vote. I think it confirms current thinking that this vote will evantually be overturned, possibility by the courts but much more likely by another vote, because so many young people (some not yet old enough to vote) just don’t have a visceral reaction to gay people that the older set has.</p>