My Date To My Junior Prom Was A Girl.

[etakyma]

So the flap about the girl who wanted to take her girlfriend to prom and was barred from doing so perplexes me.

I went to my junior prom with a girl. We were not romantically involved, but I don't remember it being a big deal - or even noticeable. Her boyfriend punked out on her, and I was dateless, so we went together. I got her a rose, she got me a corsage. We took pictures like any other couple at the prom, even though our pictures were not "couple-y" it still was included in the commemorative picture book.

One boy brought two girls, and that trio is also included in the booklet (I think he had asked one girl as a friend and then got a together with a different girl, and they decided to all go together). Nothing was ever said to any of us. If a girl wanted to wear a tux, well, fine. Can't imagine anything would have been said about that, either. I can't imagine if two boys wanted to go together as a date it would have been any different.

It was the nineteen-eighties. Surely we've advanced since then? Perhaps it was just the difference between small town New England and small town The South, but I don't think so.

Maybe I am incredibly naive. But shouldn't we as a society be over making a flap about these kinds of differences? So she wanted to bring her girlfriend and wear a tux. Big fucking deal. So the fuck what? As long as they have a ticket to the dance they should be able to go.

I pity the kids who held the "stealth prom" because I am sure that in the future they will look back and be ashamed.

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Megan just went to the Winter Ball (it's the big dance here, like Jr. Prom) with her best friend Mai. They purchased the couple tickets because it was cheaper and nothing was said. Quite a few of the girls, and a few guys did that. I have wondered if maybe this particular event was pushed into the news on purpose, because I can't help thinking that of the girls just did it with no extra wordage, all would have been okay. I know at my HS dances and proms some of the girls wore tuxes and it wasn't a problem.