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iceweasel4/28/2010 8:19:07 am PDT

More problems with gay teens in Mississippi— remember the lesbian who was disinvited to prom, sued, and then they held a seekrit prom to exclude her when the school lost the court case?

Well, I guess she should be grateful they didn’t cut her out of the yearbook like this kid (different school):

When Veronica Rodriguez opened Wesson Attendance Center’s Yearbook on Friday, she didn’t find a trace of her lesbian daughter Ceara Sturgis after a long battle with school officials to include a photo of her daughter wearing a tuxedo in the school’s 2010 yearbook. “They didn’t even put her name in it,” Sturgis’ mother Veronica Rodriguez said. “I was so furious when she told me about it. Ceara started crying and I told her to suck it up. Is that not pathetic for them to do that? Yet again, they have crapped on her and made her feel alienated.”

Sturgis has been a student at Wesson Attendance Center—WTF with that name?—for 12 years. Sturgis is an honor student. She was told that her photo wouldn’t appear in the yearbook because, you know, God hates lesbians in tuxes. But that wasn’t enough for the bigots running Wesson: they removed all references to Sturgis. Her photo doesn’t appear in the yearbook, her name doesn’t appear on a list of graduating seniors, there’s no mention of the academic honors she racked up.

Like Constance McMillen—another lesbian student who had the nerve to stand up for herself and to be herself—Sturgis was retaliated against by the small-minded bigots who run her school.

Time for an accountability moment: the website for the Wesson Attendance Center is here. Ronald Greer is WAC’s principal and you can email him here. Oscar Hawkins is WAC’s high school principal and you can email him here. The school’s phone number is[no phone numbers allowed]. The school’s fax number is[no phone numbers allowed].

Go get ‘em.