{"id":9470,"date":"2010-04-07T11:45:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T11:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/07\/we-dont-want-your-kind-at-our-prom\/"},"modified":"2010-04-07T11:45:10","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T11:45:10","slug":"we-dont-want-your-kind-at-our-prom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/07\/we-dont-want-your-kind-at-our-prom\/","title":{"rendered":"We don&#8217;t want your kind at our prom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/90784\/We-dont-want-your-kind-at-our-prom'>We don&#8217;t want your kind at our prom<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>This is fucked up beyond belief.\u00a0 I&rsquo;m too pissed off to properly write about this; many of the commenters at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/90784\/We-dont-want-your-kind-at-our-prom\" target=\"_blank\"><em>MetaFilter<\/em><\/a> thread are far more eloquent than I&rsquo;m able to be in their condemnation of this bullshit.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Constance McMillan, an 18yo lesbian graduating from high school in  Itawamba County, Miss., was told she couldn&rsquo;t bring a female date to the  prom because of county rules against bringing same-sex dates. The  school district in fact <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2010-03-12-no-prom-mississippi_N.htm?csp=hf\" target=\"_blank\">canceled  the prom<\/a> rather than let a same-sex couple attend. After a judge  ruled that doing so <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/ondeadline\/post\/2010\/03\/us-judge-rules-against-miss-lesbian-over-canceled-prom\/1\" target=\"_blank\">violated  Constance&rsquo;s civil rights<\/a>, Constance was told (after long evasions  and no answers as to details of the party) that the prom would be held  at a country club Friday night in Fulton, Miss.  When she got to the club with her date, she found out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/News\/Daily_News\/2010\/04\/05\/ACLU_Investigating_Fake_Prom\/\" target=\"_blank\">the  parents and rest of the students had scheduled <em>second<\/em> prom at a  different, secret location<\/a>. Five other students were directed to the  prom Constance &amp; her date were sent to, including two students with  learning disabilities. The school principal &amp; 2 teacher acted as  chaperones for the seven students at the country club.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t want your kind at our prom This is fucked up beyond belief.\u00a0 I&rsquo;m too pissed off to properly write about this; many of the commenters at the MetaFilter thread are far more eloquent than I&rsquo;m able to be in their condemnation of this bullshit. Constance McMillan, an 18yo lesbian graduating from high school &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/07\/we-dont-want-your-kind-at-our-prom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We don&#8217;t want your kind at our prom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}