Uncle Crickey's Closet: Lesbian student in Miss. fights for tuxedo photo

Friday, October 16, 2009

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Lesbian student in Miss. fights for tuxedo photo

By The Associated Press
10.16.2009 11:39am EDT
(Jackson, Miss.) Everyone at Wesson Attendance Center knows 17-year-old Ceara Sturgis is gay because she’s never tried to hide it.

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But when Sturgis – an honor student, trumpet player and goalie on the school’s soccer team – wanted her senior photograph in a tuxedo used in the 2009-10 yearbook, school officials balked. Traditionally, female students dress in drapes and males wear tuxedos.