May 29: An openly-gay, teenage boy is voted "Prom Queen" at a Los Angel high school a mpaign that began as a stunt but end up spurrg discsn on the mp about genr rol and teen populary. KNBC-TV's Chuck Henry reports.
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GAY TEEN RECEIV PROM QUEEN CROWN
Los Angel' Fairfax Senr High School named openly gay Serg Garcia, 18, prom queen at last weekend's school dance. * gay prom queen *
She viewed the stunt body electg two women as prom queens as rejectg genr norms and homophobic beliefs.
Several said the girls only won bee they're a homosexual uple and 's Pri Month. GLAAD, the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, had not heard of a same-sex uple beg named prom queens Pennsylvania.
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GAY TEEN NAMED PROM QUEEN
A Connecticut high school crowns a popular gay senr as prom queen. * gay prom queen *
The first "gay prom" happened almost 20 years later Los Angel, California. Aaron Fricke, a gay stunt who sought a urt orr to allow him to brg a male iend to his high school prom. "A uple of years ago, there was a big mystery about how we n support youth who intify as gay and lbian, " Lyl said.
While his school has a "huge muny" of queer kids, he "didn't even know what the word trans meant" until his sophomore year high school. We all live small towns, and most of didn’t have the agency to be ourselv durg our public-schoolg atten were a diverse crowd of lovely people, cludg lbian upl, gay upl, nonbary guts and people who are trans.