“The Best Queer Homecoming Season Ever”

At Autostraddle, a heartwarming roundup of newly elected gay and transgender homecoming kings and queens (“The principal at Waukegan, who when asked what the students’ inclusive choice says about their campus climate, said “the question is something adults are more likely to contemplate than teenagers’”), as well as a brief history of these little earthquakes, in which I learned that “all the way back in 1980, high school senior Aaron Fricke’s right to attend prom with his boyfriend was upheld by federal court.”

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