I danced with my boyfriend at the time, on the raised platform at the prom, in Tulsa Oklahoma, in 2001. People seemed uncomfortable but that was the worst of it, no public lynchings.

So, you're date can be a skeevy 21 year-old if you're a junior, or a tiny 9th grader if you're a senior, but it can't be same-sex? Yeehaw!

is anyone really surprised? i mean, there is a school in mississippi that only just started having a racially integrated prom like 2 or 3 years ago…yeah, they used to have a black prom and a white prom separately…in this century!!!  http://festival.sundance.org/2009/film_events/films/prom_night_in_mississippi

she asked so it would become a big huge drama she could be at the center of

I'm from Mississippi and I just want to say: Why is it any of their business in the first place?! Let the girl take who she wants to the prom and wear whatever she wants! Or did we all become communists and I just missed the memo?

Sorry rules ARE rules (otherwise why have them ?).
No sympathy from me.  Good life lesson for Constance to learn as she enters adulthood “Life is NOT Fair” and the life lesson to learn for ALL the other students who miss out “It only takes one person to f*ck it up for the rest of us”

E-mails fake

To paraphrase Hal Sparks on this: “Why is this news? This is Mississippi.”

Constance is adorable.

Go Constance! You have the turtles on your side.

Thanks, John!

She is a school board member. Whoops.

They don't work, you're right Steve. So I tracked down another email address, Clare Brown, he is a school board member. Here's her email and the link to others. cbrown@network-one.com http://www.itawambacountyschools.com/board_members.htm

I thought it said “Let Constance take her Girlfriend to Porn.”

Looks like the email address doesn't work anymore. :(

Oh, Mississippi. First you were on such a roll with Admiral Ackbar, and now this. You've let me down. :( I'm moving to New Hampshire.

I'd be way more supportive of this if there wasn't a lawsuit involved.

Correction: first, they told her she couldn't bring her girlfriend to prom. Second, she told them that she intended to do so and if they didn't like it she would see them in court. Third, the board canceled the prom, and put out the request for a private organization to host their own prom. I think that's a swell idea, personally. I suggest we all write to Ellen Degeneres and ask her to host the prom.

Well, she looks pretty cute and was planning on wearing the tux herself. If she's the butch one of the pair then I don't get why there's not a groundswell of support from the guys at her school. All kidding aside, though, I have no problem with same sex couples attending. In fact, I'm a little disturbed by the “may be a college age student” provision. I'd rather my 17 or 18 year-old be in a stable gay relationship with someone of the same age than with someone who could be 22 or, arguably, older.

ok, why did she even ask? i've seen two girls go to prom together, both had dresses on but they still walked together. put that together with the indeed fact that they make a tux for women and … why did she even ask?