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evolveme · 03-11-2010, 04:17 PM

As recently as Spring 2008, at least one Mississippi town still hosted racially segregated proms. Actor Morgan Freeman helped ensure his hometown's first integrated prom (by paying for it) and a documentary was made. Many students still refused to attend. So, I am hardly surprised that an entire event would be shut down because of a queer young woman's desire to attend her prom in my home state.

Here's the story on Charleston, Mississippi's first integrated prom.

03-11-2010, 04:17 PM	#23
evolveme Member How Do You Identify?: honeysuckle venom Preferred Pronoun?: a pistol and a sugar cane Relationship Status: I promise to aid and abet Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: in between poems where ceilings are floors and joe ghost floats achromatic toward day Posts: 514 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 229 Thanked 736 Times in 228 Posts Rep Power: 503698	As recently as Spring 2008, at least one Mississippi town still hosted racially segregated proms. Actor Morgan Freeman helped ensure his hometown's first integrated prom (by paying for it) and a documentary was made. Many students still refused to attend. So, I am hardly surprised that an entire event would be shut down because of a queer young woman's desire to attend her prom in my home state. Here's the story on Charleston, Mississippi's first integrated prom. __________________ Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside. - Dorothy Allison