I’m my own prom date.
GARY, Ind. - A male student who has worn women’s clothes to school all year was turned away from his high school prom because he was wearing a dress.
Kevin Logan, 18, went to the West Side High School prom on Friday in a slinky fuchsia gown and heels. He believes officials discriminated against him by not allowing him inside.
“I have no formal pictures, no memories, nothing. You only have one prom,” he said.
Logan, who is gay, received an $85 refund for his prom ticket Tuesday but was not satisfied.
Sylvester Rowan, assistant to Gary Schools Superintendent Mary Steele, said school policy bans males from wearing dresses. Excluding Logan from prom was based on “the dress code, not the student’s homosexuality. That’s his personal preference.”
June 5th, 2006 at 10:21 am
I hope the school is well funded, because schools never win these cases. What they do win is 200k in judgements awarded to their former students AND the ability to repay that student’s legal bills! Yipee!