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Kansas school ♥'s their gay Homecoming King

What a smile... that guy's gonna break some hearts for sure.
 
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great posting. thanks for sharing it with all of us.:wave:

see Toto was right.​

eM.:(
 
That's pretty significant for a Kansas town to show its tolerance for a gay high school student who takes home the crown for homecoming king.

kansas?? i would've thought this would've been a story from new york or chicago or la, let's not hope that we're so backwards now that small towns are becoming more tolerant than big cities. i say EVERY high school needs a gay homecoming king, the star-quarter back/valedictorian/wrestler straight homecoming king is SO last year.
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Who cares about the overexposed cities these days. It's about time that smaller towns show gay support. Whatever the Kansas town is suppose to be can set an excellent example for every other small towns in the future with this type of mentality. IMO, I think its evident just based on stories in the past that the biggest cities seem to go through a lot more hate crimes than just the smallest towns. Why do I think that? There are many neighborhoods in a huge city that feature different profiles that sets itself apart from the small-town tight knit communities. There is one neighborhood that doesn't want gays in their area and then you have another neighborhood that only allows gays and lesbians in their community. There is going to be that one gaybashing bigot who will be trespassing into a gay neighborhood and bash a gay person who is trying to live a normal life. So with that said bigger cities tend to have villages or neighborhoods that are going to discriminate against one another based on sexual preference or race. It's pretty sad to go through that realization but some people don't understand that living in a huge city (which is all good) has its downfalls when it comes to stupid crap like that.
 
awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
 
Kansas isn't as "backwaters" as everyone thinks it is. Jus because everyone always hears about Reverend Phelps being from our state, they think the entire state is like him. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
While most Kansans wouldn't want to see a couple (regardless of gender) making out in public, they don't care what one's orientation is.
I've lived in a smaller community (roughly 20,000) for nine years and my sexuality has never been an issue to people. Do I make a big deal of it? Not really. My pride flag hangs in my classroom, my copy of the Advocate arrives without the plastic covering, my neighbors have seen me kiss an ex; just as they've seen me mow my yard, buy girl scout cookies from the kids, and wached me come and go from work. If someone asks, I'm open and honest.

mikey
 
^ Good for you Mikey. I grew up in Kansas, too; however, back in the age of the dinosaurs it wasn't quite as comfortable. That's why I got the hell out of the Midwest and moved to Boston. XXX
 
Kansas is, after all, where The Wizard of Oz was set.

Judy Garland ... The Emerald City ... ruby red slippers ...

And let's not forget "Somewhere Over The Rainbow"!

How screamingly gay can you get?!??! :D
 
I know he's got a boyfriend but you do kinda hope that he ends of dating the running back, don't you? And the two go together to the senior prom?
 
I always thought Kansas was like Texas Jr. And it's not hard to think that after they pass a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and advocate intelligent design. But it's nice to know the state isn't all bad.
 
Wow.
Reading that leaves me envious, bitter, confused, depressed.... I know I could never have been prom king or anything like that, but to have known at that age who I was and been kool with that would have been priceless.
 
marleyisalegend said:
kansas?? i would've thought this would've been a story from new york or chicago or la, let's not hope that we're so backwards now that small towns are becoming more tolerant than big cities.
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You know... I really dont understand this idea that small towns are homophobic or intolerant.

In a small town everyone knows everyone.
You are someones son,
Or brother, or neighbor... or friend.
In a small town people know your family and they know about you.

So that means while being gay is different in a small town... and it most certainly will be talked about dont kid yourself... no small town and country gay guy (including me) I have ever spoken too has had any less acceptance or tolerance than anyone else. And the fact that people actually know you changes their perspectives instantly.

In fact I'd go as far as to say for some the new found celebrity status of being different has meant almost too much attention! I know guys who are constantly questioned and quizzed as to what its like to be gay... And if there are idiots who mouth off the irony is is that the rest of the town knows them too... and that can be a hell of a lot harder to live with.

Every time someone comes out, and lives their life to the full and realizes their dreams and potential it challenges and changes crazy, lazy, nonsensical stereotypes. It shows we are no different... we are still people who love and care and just want to live our lives.

Coming out is a challenge that we as gay men and women alone are given - not by choice - but its one we rise above constantly. Its a challenge that makes us better and stronger as people.

Its a challenge because of fear and hurt - both for us and those around us.

But its hard because of the people we love - not because of where we are - city or country.

Do we of all people need to keep making it harder by perpetuating any more of these outdated and useless dangerous stereotypes???




Thanks for that link Mattie..... great story!!!!!!!
 
This fellow actually lives in suburban Kansas City, which for the geographically challenged is not a small town. Actually very liberal, tolerant with a vibrant and visible gay community. Not everything outside of New York or Miami is a small town

I have seen more homophobia and intolerance in many of your beloved East and West coast cities and states than I have ever seen here.
 
tallguy297 said:
no small town and country gay guy (including me) I have ever spoken too has had any less acceptance or tolerance than anyone else.
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Talk to me.

I lived in a small town... I got called "faggot" by teacher. I was told in class by students that they were going to torture me to death, burn my house down while my family slept.

I got attacked in school, I got attacked on my way home.

I went to the police and was asked "what did you do to deserve that?" When I explained that I had done nothing, the cop said "well, maybe you should go home and think about it and come back when you're ready to tell us what you did."

All the gay kids at my school and in my town have similar stories about extreme homophobic treatment.

Matthew Sheppard wasn't killed in New York City.

Sorry, but I don't believe that small towns are better than cities.
 
maybe.

But I'll tell you that I can hold my BF's hand anywhere in Los Angeles and nobody bats an eyelash.

Not so for small towns.
 
Soil,

I understand what you are saying... and I'm not saying that theres no problems in small towns and communities... I'm saying that I'm pretty sure proportionally its no worse.

Look... kids at school get picked on every day in every city & town for being different in anyway... not just because they are gay. Its hair colour or clothes or some other trivial crud. The fact that you were picked on because you were gay doesnt make it better or worse... its just a symptom of a society where gang mentality and bullying is ok. But that society exists everywhere.

And the recent killings in large cities show the situation is no better there. Being different is enough to cause you grief anywhere.

But to say its worse in small towns is a fact that I think would be very hard to prove.

People confuse the anonymity and ignorrance of the huge populations in cities as acceptance. Its not. Its just a sheer lack of need or desire to know or care about anyone else.

Just because they dont ridicule you in LA doesnt mean they accept it... it means they dont give a shit. They will most likely never see you again so why would they care???

In a small town people are forced to confront the issue all the time... and often begrudgingly or not they deal with it.

Dont you honestly think that if you went back to your home town as a grown successful and happy man that you wouldnt be accepted by and large???? And with more sincerity than by someone who might pass you in the street in LA? I live in a town of 14000 with a few gay couples who do hold hands... and mate they are accepted and respected as a couple... because people KNOW them, even if it is only by reputation.

We need to challenge these stereotypes and debate them. Kids get picked on no matter where they are. Lets not use that as the excuse to create a fear that small towns spell a life of misery and torture for gay guys.
 
tallguy297 said:
Dont you honestly think that if you went back to your home town as a grown successful and happy man that you wouldnt be accepted by and large???? .
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no, I don't think that at all.

I know I'd get called "Faggot" and probably attacked.

Sorry, but I grew up in a very small town. They're stupid, ugly, smelly, inbred, backward-ass country fucks. I'm not bitter (anymore) but I'm glad I'm gone from that dung-pile of a farming village where stupidity was a badge of honour and ignorance was the norm.

I was just pissed that the hurricane didn't wipe the whole thing off the map and I told my parents (who still live there) exactly that.
 
^ Good to see your not bitter mate... So you dream of retiring there huh...;)

Ah well... maybe we are a little more tolerant over here after all... I grew up in a town of 600... (mind you I'm not retiring there either as long as my mum points to the ground!)...

But the last time I was there a friend of mine said to me about a guy who still lives there who is clearly gay but closeted that he and everyone else wished that he would just come out and get on with his life instead of wasting it....

People actually really knowing people is the only way to stop ignorance and intolerance... and thats far more likely to happen in a small town.
 
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