Hooray!
Dec 23, 2002 Uncategorized
Now this is a world I can get behind!
CRETE, Illinois (AP) — Their story has played out like the name of a popular lesbian movie: "The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love." It started last month, when the girls — longtime high school sweethearts — were voted "cutest couple" by their fellow seniors at Crete-Monee High School in the suburbs south of Chicago. Administrators balked, at first. Then several students walked out of class to support the girls. It is a drama that, for a time anyway, awakened this sleepy town, lined with antique shops, churches and cafes, and still surrounded by corn fields. In the end, the girls’ parents — though a bit shell-shocked — agreed to let a photograph of the couple appear in the school yearbook. And last week, district superintendent Roberta Berry wrote a letter praising the students at Crete-Monee High: "I am proud to say that while other schools continue to address issues such as alienation, bullying and hate crimes, we have a student body that not only accepts each others’ differences, but also celebrates them."
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