Lesbian Becomes College Homecoming King

[The Straight Story]

Lesbian Becomes College Homecoming King

POSTED: 6:29 pm EST March 6, 2006

FREDERICK, Md. -- Hood College is reviewing its homecoming rules after a lesbian was crowned king, a college official says.

But Jennifer Jones, the 21-year-old senior who beat out three men for the honor, says her victory last month was a plus for the private liberal-arts college.

"It is cool that Hood allows people to be themselves," Jones, of Newark, Del., told The Frederick News-Post. "If people didn't want me to be king, they wouldn't have nominated me and voted for me."

Waves of discontent are still rippling through the 2,100-student campus in western Maryland more than two weeks after Jones was crowned at the Feb. 18 homecoming dance, the News-Post reported Monday.

"She is not a man," said Singleton Newman, a 22-year-old senior who was among the queen candidates. "It is a gender issue, and she is a woman."

http://www.local6.com/news/7755330/detail.html

[pinto]

1. She was voted to the post, apparently. Kudos.

[freeplessinseattle]

2. a local R leaning HS crowned a lesbian homecoming king

a few years ago, a first in WA state. she rode in the Seattle Gay Pride Parade a few years ago. The HS (Ferndale High, in Whatcom County) is in a rednecky farming town-I went to that school in my freshman year and my mom still lives in that town, I was amazed and heartened that the new generation is becoming so enlightened.