Tuesday, June 26, 2007

So hitting the YMCA five days a week is starting to make me feel like a good gay guy again. I really had slacked off for a good long while.

In other news (literally), I was reading the newspaper today and came across an article about a gay graduating high school senior in Newark, New Jersey. In his particular school, every student has their picture in the yearbook but students can also purchase an additional page and design it with phots of them, their friends, family, etc. This student had done that and on the page included a picture of him and his boyfriend kissing. The school district's superintendent blacked out the photo (due to it's "suggestive" nature) in the yearbooks before they were distributed to students. Interestingly enough, several other pages included heterosexual couples engaging in similar acts and were not altered in any way. Since the incident, the school has offered to replace the yearbook with the picture intact for any student who wants it. Not exactly the ideal solution in my mind. I think the student deserves a serious apology and that all students should have their yearbooks replaced. Not to mention, the student should have the $150 he paid to have that page refunded. But don't worry, the school district didn't discriminate. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/24/education/24yearbook.html



1 comment:

Mike said...

I got a good laugh out of this... it's like really?

“He was personally hurt,” she said. “That bothers me very much.”

Well gee...