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What To Do When You're Nervous About Being an LGBTQ Couple At Prom
There’s no getting around it: When you’re in high college, prom is essential . Or at least, with all of the pressure that surrounds the night and its medley of traditions, it seems like it is.
In lots of schools, it’s basically the biggest buzzword of your second semester — and when you’re an LGBTQ couple, it can be especially nerve-racking. Not only does your prom look contain to be on-point, but you also might be worried about publicly coming out to your entire class (if you haven't already) or confronting people who have been unsupportive of your relationship in the past.
So we're here to get super real about tips for LGBTQ couples at prom
Don't lay too much pressure on yourself.
Contrary to what you might think or what everyone around you might be saying, prom is a night for YOU. You’ll treasure your memories more in the long sprint if you grasp you spent the night wearing what you wanted to wear and dancing with who you wanted to verb with. Chances are, the less pressure you place on it, the more fun you’ll ha
A gay couple at Chattahoochee High School in Georgia have both been nominated to this year’s prom court, but they won’t be allowed to win together. The school says the prom court must consist of a king and queen, not two kings.
Under the current process, the students nominate three guys and three girls and then vote for a king and queen. In the past, the winners have often been a couple, and the nominees for this year also include another pair of students who are in a relationship. Joel Lerner and Carter Hebert had hoped they would be able to conquer together as other couples have, but the school arbitrarily rejected the possibility.
In a petition, the students propose a simple solution: Switch the name from “Prom King and Queen” to “Prom Royalty.” Let the two people who earn the most votes win, regardless of their gender or sexual orientation. “This means that if the most deserving of the nominees are two girls,” they note, “they would both be allowed to win, instead of historically only allowing one to be crowned royalty.
LGBTQueens: Pennridge High Institution seniors crown first-ever gay couple as prom royalty
Being named prom queen is moment sure not to be forgotten. But, few create history with their place on the royal court in high school.
“All of the pictures of us from right afterward are just us with our jaws, like, dropped to the floor,” adj school senior Courtney Steiner recalled of the night she and her girlfriend, Carly Levy, made Pennridge High School history.
Just as Pride Month kicked off in June, the pair were crowned queens as the school’s first-ever gay couple to win the school's prom court.
“I think that it shows how inclusive and progressive we're becoming,” said Courtney, who’s preparing to study biology in college.
She and Carly, both 18, verb they never imagined the Perkasie school's administration would even permit them to sprint, as the prom court winners include traditionally been kings and queens.
“I was nervous that Pennridge wouldn’t let it transpire, or they would get backlash, or there would be threats because, you know, you own to expect that when you're a little different from
Sioux Falls’ first gay prom couple wanted normalcy. Instead, they left a legacy.
The Poughkeepise Journal said, "The prom couple were gay guys."
The Dayton Daily News said, "Admitted homosexuals attend prom together."
The Springfield Leader and Press told their readers, "Two gays attend prom without trouble."
And the Post-Crescent in Wisconsin called it a "Milestone in gay rights."
It was May 23, and newspapers across the nation ran an Associated Press story about the first gay couple to attend a elevated school prom.
The headlines ranged from celebratory to chiding. Some papers ran the full story, while some condensed it to just a few paragraphs. But every story started the same way — the dateline, telling readers across the country that year-old Randy Rohl and year-old Grady Quinn had made a little but significant step in LGBTQ history in a town called Sioux Falls.
The first same-sex prom couple
Forty years later, Grady Quinn says he still finds his part in that history somewhat strange.
"Some people that I know now are still going 'Well, you require to capitalize on it some