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- 2 GAY HIGH SCHOOL ATHLET ATTEND THEIR PROM TOGETHER RAL TENNSEE
- FIRST GAY PROM ALLOWS STUNTS TO ‘BE THEMSELV’
2 GAY HIGH SCHOOL ATHLET ATTEND THEIR PROM TOGETHER RAL TENNSEE
The tradn beme mastream by the end of the super blah 1950s, and wasn't until 1979 that the first openly gay uple me to prom Sux Falls, South Dakota. 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.
FIRST GAY PROM ALLOWS STUNTS TO ‘BE THEMSELV’
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.
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As he drove down the wdg roads of our small Tennsee town, Morristown, my md was swimmg wh qutns about the upg night: How will people react to beg the first gay uple at our prom? In 2017, the te lors of my hometown were revealed at a unty missn meetg where a homophobic hate group proposed a symbolic rolutn to ban same-sex marriage Morristown. Evan, the once sred and timid boy, stood proudly ont of hundreds of people and exclaimed, “Growg up gay Hamblen County, I have bee very skilled at hidg, but I am no longer aaid of embracg my inty.