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Related: About this forumTennesee yearbook's profile of gay student brings calls for investigation
TENNESSEE Some community members are asking for an investigation of the yearbook adviser at Lenoir City High School, after the 2012 book included an article about an openly gay student.
On Monday, journalism adviser James Yoakley was asked into Principal Steve Millsaps office to discuss the story titled "It's OK to be Gay," after a parent wrote an email to the district, Yoakley said.
The student-written story profiles gay student Zac Mitchell, who discusses coming out, bullying, and his familys donations to gay rights causes and breast cancer research. Mitchell also describes an experience cross-dressing with a friend while in Nashville.
Yoakley said the story was the student editors idea. This years theme for the book is In My Element.
Student Press Law Center: http://www.splc.org/news/newsflash.asp?id=2378
It's OK to be Gay link: http://www.splc.org/pdf/lenoir_yearbook.pdf
WillParkinson
(16,862 posts)Or, apparently, Tennessee.
LonePirate
(13,437 posts)I simply cannot deal with this crap any longer from those cretins.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)hate no one because we all are different. They are young yet but they will learn not to hate anyone. I will say gay to my grandkids. I will teach them not to hate. We all aren't like that.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)to the repukes. no change on the horizon either.
richmwill
(1,326 posts)My opinion- Don't claim or preach "the untold joys of God's love for all of us" while you seethe with hatred for gay people. Hypocrites.
Initech
(100,139 posts)Just like the greediest of the greedy - the most hateful of the haters have no limits to how low they will sink.
Duncan Grant
(8,297 posts)Is there something in the water?
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)...protesting ignorance in the city in question.
https://www.facebook.com/TakeAStandAgainstTheIgnoranceInLenoirCity