Mississippi tries real hard to make gays vanish
We should make Mississippi vanish…
Gay Student Ceara Sturgis Cut from High School Yearbook
(CANVAS STAFF REPORTS) – Ceara Sturgis and her mother, Veronica Rodriguez, were shocked to find that Ceara was missing entirely from her high school yearbook.
Ceara is an openly gay student at Wesson Attendance Center in Wesson, Mississippi, who has been battling with her school over her senior yearbook photo, according to The Jackson Free Press .
Ceara chose to wear a tuxedo rather than a dress in the high school senior portrait, but in October 2009 the school rejected the photo. Sturgis and her mother then got the Mississippi ACLU to protest the school officials’ decision and ask that the photo be included. But the Copiah County School District refused to accept the photo.
Ceara and her mother were not surprised that the photo was not in the yearbook. But on Friday they were shocked to find that Ceara was erased completely from the publication.
“They didn’t even put her name in it,” her mother told the Jackson Free Press .
“It’s like she’s nobody there, even though she’s gone to school there for 12 years.” Rodriguez points out that students who have been busted for drugs or dropped out are still in the yearbook, but not her daughter.</em>
Mississippi, where hate isn’t just accepted…it’s taught in school.
