The Homecoming Queen...is a QUEEN!
The Homecoming Queen...is a QUEEN!
Joined: 12/31/69
#1The Homecoming Queen...is a QUEEN!
Posted: 10/26/07 at 4:11pm
I figure we all can use a little good news- and the good news today is the Dog that Didn't Bark. It seems a California High School elected a gay couple Homecoming King & Queen (or Queen & Queen?). They won a write in campaign and rode arm & arm on the Homecoming float. There's an article about it in the Sacremento Bee- and the big news is that no one cares. No one protested, no one wants to require only heterosexual couples can run, no one even thinks it's weird. "Parent Lorna Bernard said she was taken aback by the news -- only because in her day, a gay couple stood to be harassed by their peers, not elected. But Raphael and Gatewood, she said, are "not just accepted, they're popular -- popular enough to be elected as homecoming princes."
And that, she said, is "really cool." "
Yes, it is.
Sacrento Bee
#2re: The Homecoming Queen...is a QUEEN!
Posted: 10/26/07 at 4:13pmWhy does this make me happy?
I have NEVER met Cheyenne Jackson. I have never hung out with him in his dressing room, he did not tweet me, he never bought me a beverage, and he mostly certainly didn't tickle me. . .that is all.
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#2re: The Homecoming Queen...is a QUEEN!
Posted: 10/26/07 at 4:16pmWell done, ladies. Well done.
"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#4re: The Homecoming Queen...is a QUEEN!
Posted: 10/26/07 at 4:21pm
awww!
They look like Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal in Y Tu Mamá También.
"Zac is sweet as can be. He's very much just a sweet kid from California who happens to have a face that looks like it was drawn by Michelangelo, (if Michelangelo did anime)."
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#5re: The Homecoming Queen...is a QUEEN!
Posted: 10/26/07 at 4:22pmSweet Sixteen. Dating for four months.
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#8re: The Homecoming Queen...is a QUEEN!
Posted: 10/26/07 at 10:48pmThis is disgustingly cute. I'm all warm and fuzzy.
#9re: The Homecoming Queen...is a QUEEN!
Posted: 10/26/07 at 10:48pmFantastic! Good for them.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#10re: The Homecoming Queen...is a QUEEN!
Posted: 10/26/07 at 10:52pmGood for them, good for the school, good for the community. I'd love to believe that our local HS would be so accepting, but I know we're not there yet (I think many of the kids are, but I know few of the parents are).
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#11re: The Homecoming Queen...is a QUEEN!
Posted: 10/26/07 at 10:53pmCongrats to them!!
BroadwayBoobs: I'll give all of you who weren't there a hint of who took the pictures ...it rhymes with shameless
SOMMS: I knew it was Tink!
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#12re: The Homecoming Queen...is a QUEEN!
Posted: 10/26/07 at 11:02pm
"I think many of the kids are, but I know few of the parents are"
I think that's disturbingly true.
I have a friend that's fond of saying, "Every day, another old bigot dies." While somewhat morbid and cynical, I think there's truth in the fact that the old mores ARE dying off - just not quick enough for my taste.
But how wonderful that younger people DO seem to be embracing plurality more and more. SOUTH PACIFIC showed us that you have to be carefully taught - so there's extreme validity in getting this type of thing out in public - to teach.
mauriposa
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/14/05
#13re: The Homecoming Queen...is a QUEEN!
Posted: 10/27/07 at 12:41pmRock on! I knew there was a reason I'm applying to schools in California.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#14re: The Homecoming Queen...is a QUEEN!
Posted: 10/27/07 at 4:01pm
*Edit*
Because I totally mis-read that thread.
I need to wake up before I post.
I'm thrilled that this has happened.
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
Updated On: 10/27/07 at 04:01 PM
grnsmwhr
Stand-by Joined: 5/27/04
#15re: The Homecoming Queen...is a QUEEN!
Posted: 10/27/07 at 4:38pmKudos to the students at Davis, the school administration, community and especially to Brandon and Kiernan for going for it. I loved when they said they didn't do it to make a political statement. They just wanted to win...like everybody else. So sweet.
You see, obsessions are very personal things, they come from deep inside us, where we are open and vulnerable, which is why I consider them sacred, not to be belittled....PalJoey
Ariella
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/06
#16re: The Homecoming Queen...is a QUEEN!
Posted: 10/27/07 at 4:49pm
Good for them. That's completely awesome.
Mateo - I thought the same thing! One of them looks a lot like Diego Luna, and throw in the car: y tu mama tambien
#17re: The Homecoming Queen...is a QUEEN!
Posted: 10/27/07 at 5:12pmThat's absolutely phenomenal. Finally people aren't turning away so easily. Good for them.
#18re: The Homecoming Queen...is a QUEEN!
Posted: 10/27/07 at 5:52pmGood for them! More power to them!
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#19re: The Homecoming Queen...is a QUEEN!
Posted: 10/27/07 at 5:57pm
"Finally people aren't turning away so easily."
From what?
We were ALWAYS here.
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
#20re: The Homecoming Queen...is a QUEEN!
Posted: 10/27/07 at 6:05pm
That wasn't what I meant at all. I meant finally people are accepting things without automatically shutting it out.
Basically, people are learning.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#21re: The Homecoming Queen...is a QUEEN!
Posted: 10/27/07 at 6:07pm
And I love that.
And the fact that they are both 'Prince'.
Make them both Kings!!!!!!!!!!
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
#22re: The Homecoming Queen...is a QUEEN!
Posted: 10/27/07 at 7:20pmDiva, I think they are Princes because they're Juniors, not Seniors.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#23re: The Homecoming Queen...is a QUEEN!
Posted: 10/27/07 at 8:34pm
Aw, I'm so glad this is on here. I've heard about it locally a lot. This makes me so happy. 
One time, Patti LuPone punched me in the face...
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#24re: The Homecoming Queen...is a QUEEN!
Posted: 10/28/07 at 3:19am
Bump - because I like this.
A lot.
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