My Date To My Junior Prom Was A Girl.

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.