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LegendX48 wrote:You always want piggy gannon. He dun wanna be a piggy

Luna wrote:That troll mod is back?! D:

-Mazer wrote:

Luna wrote:That troll mod is back?! D:

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Luna wrote:No, I got an email saying that a "zulux" had joined. He's probably just lurking....watching and judging you all. Not me, though, I'm above reproach.

-Mazer wrote:*tries to draw Legend naked...


enjoys it immensely.

-Mazer wrote:*tries to draw Legend naked...


enjoys it immensely.

Brianna Popour, a South Carolina teen, is standing up for herself after a high school administrator sent her home for wearing a shirt that says, “Nobody Knows I’m a Lesbian.” (Photo: Facebook)

A South Carolina teenager was sent home from school recently after she refused to change her T-shirt — which bore the tongue-in-cheek phrase “Nobody Knows I’m a Lesbian,” and was deemed “offensive and distracting” and in violation of the school’s dress code.

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“I was told to change my shirt or go home, so I went home because I wasn’t going to allow him to tell me I can’t wear a shirt that shows who I am,” Brianna Popour, 18, tells Yahoo Parenting through a Facebook message, apparently referring to either the principal or assistant principal of Chesnee High School in Chesnee.

Popour, who says she came out as a lesbian “two or three years ago,” was able to return to school the next day, to what she says has been much support, except from the administrator who disciplined her. “He hasn’t apologized. He won’t even look at me,” she says, adding, “Today I wore a shirt that says, ‘Keep Calm and Kiss Girls.’”

The high school did not return a call requesting comment from Yahoo Parenting, but issued a statement to local news station WSPA that said the T-shirt was “offensive and distracting.” The school’s dress code notes, “Clothing and/or hair should not be so extreme or inappropriate to the school setting as to disrupt the educational process. Therefore, clothing deemed distracting, revealing, overly suggestive or otherwise disruptive will not be permitted.” It specifically bans dangerous accessories, such as fishhooks and heavy chains, as well as gang-related clothing and attire that is “immodest, obscene, profane, lewd, vulgar, indecent or offensive,” as well as anything that references “alcoholic beverages or illegal drugs or paraphernalia.”

Though the code does not prohibit displays of sexual orientation, Popour told WSPA she was told, “Well, not everything is in the handbook” when she pointed this out.

Brianna’s mother, Barbara Popour, spoke out in support of her daughter and against the administrator who send Brianna home. “He does not like people in his school wearing anything that says anything about lesbians, gays, or bisexuals,” she told WSPA, also not naming the school official.

“What a brave young woman in a very homophobic situation,” Dr. Michael LaSala, a Rutgers University professor of social work and a psychotherapist who specializes in LGBT youth and families, tells Yahoo Parenting. “Shame on the school, as this also creates an atmosphere and environment of non-acceptance and even danger for young people who are LGBT. That act [of sending Brianna home] reverberates throughout the school and lets others know the school is not a safe place.” He notes the irony in the shirt’s message and the situation, adding, “Believe me, nobody knows that a lot of kids are gay or lesbian, but here, somebody had the courage to come out and say it.”

-Mazer wrote:
And HEY! GAY COMMUNITY! WANT ME TO SERIOUSLY DISLIKE YOU? KEEP DOING THIS CRAP!!

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