Current Event

This article describes an incident that is occurring in a high school in Louisiana. The “openly gay” high school student, Claudetteia Love, is choosing not to attend her school’s prom this spring because the administration will not let her wear a tuxedo. In the article, Love said “the prohibition is more about her sexual orientation than her fashion choices.” She is an honor student and excels on her advanced placement exams. It is difficult for her to understand why her school’s administration is forbidding her to wear desired attire to her prom. She does everything right for the school so when it comes to the fun stuff for celebration, she should be allowed to choose the fashion style that she wants to wear. Love even wrote a petition where she collected signatures but that did not help her case. She will not attend her prom on April 24^th due to the fact that she will not be able to wear a tuxedo.

I was very disturbed after reading this article because like she said herself, it’s not even an issue of sexual orientation, it’s about fashion taste yet the administration are more bothered by the sexual orientation aspect of it and use the fashion sense to cover it up. She wants to wear a tuxedo rather than a prom gown and she should be able to. Their arguments about how it goes against dress code is ludicrous because male students are allowed to wear the same style fashions that she is desiring to wear. This story aggravates me at a more personal level because my own sister wore a tuxedo to her senior prom. If she was not allowed to wear one, like Love, she most likely would not have attended either. Growing up is about expressing yourself the way you feel you should and how you dress yourself is a huge asset of that.

 http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/04/gay-honor-student-told-wear-tux-prom/25317113/