LOCAL EYEBROW RAISING INCIDENT PART OF GROWING WAVE AMONG MILLENNIAL YOUTH ACROSS NATION…
…IN REGARDS TO THE PERSONAL TREATMENT OF SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO CLAIM TO BE IDENTIFIED AS LIVING AN ALTERNATE & DIFFERENT LIFESTYLE.
AUGUST 27, 2019 – written by WADE QUEEN
Barely two weeks after the opening of their brand new $20 million school, a controversy has erupted, of the “flaming” kind, in a specific manner of speaking, for a group of students at the school
Multiple students at the new Martin County High School reported they were forced to change shirts after a school administrator claimed they violated the dress code.
Now, those high school students are upset after they say they feel like they were discriminated against.
“It started off around Thursday of last week,” recalled Martin County high school student Lilly Vance. “They were wearing gay pride shirts to school and they all got dress coded for it.”
Two of the shirts worn by those group of students read “Lady Lesbian” and “Queen Queer.”
“Kids wear political shirts. They wear Confederate flag shirts. I just don’t understand what’s so wrong with wearing gay pride shirts,” Miss Vance said. “Nothing we’re doing is wrong. All we are doing is expressing who we are.”
Another Martin County High student, Zachary Mills, told Hazard, Ky. television station WYMT there is a double standard when it comes to dress code violations.
“I don’t think it’s fair because I see people walking around school with Confederate flags on their boots, hats, shirts, and even belt buckles,” Zachary Mills explained.
Mills said he hoped this incident will change the way some may treat those in the LGBTQ community.
“I hope that we, as LGBTQ students and people as a whole, will be treated equally because right now that’s not what it’s looking like,” said Mills.
A statement was released not long after the incident from Superintendent Larry James stating:
“Any miscommunication has been resolved. We definitely do not want any of our students to feel like they are discriminated against.” Superintendent James said.
Lily Vance said she hoped this does not happen again.
“We’re not asking you to believe in what we believe in. We’re just asking for respect,” said Vance.
Lily Vance also said she wanted a GSA group to be formed at Martin County High School after this situation, so LGBTQ students will feel welcome.
“It means Gay-Straight Alliance. It’s for kids who don’t feel safe at home, who just need people to talk to and feel safe and secure. I think everyone deserves that,” Lily Vance said in regards to the student group she is proposing for the high school.
If they’re wearing that stuff to school, it’s definitely against dress school at any public school.
It’s a fine line between discrimination and freedom of speech.
Seriously Mr. Queen, using the word flaming in quotation-marks in a public forum? That is 100% unprofessional. Apparently the diversity at the Levisa Lazer is non-existent. Your pun reads as disrespectful and distasteful. These children deserve equality and respect, no mater how rural the area is. The world is much bigger than Martin County & more diverse. Martin County Students, It gets better!
I couldn’t agree with you more. Some of his articles have been really unprofessional. If I’m not mistaken he wrote the article, “Dangerous Woman in Martin County” which I did not agree with. (The headline and words that was used) So disrespectful and unprofessional on so many levels. I understand Levisa Lazer is a news company but the way these people write, the way they word things really gets a person attention. – I just wonder if their allowed to do that. But, we all have opinions. The way the world is now you just never know.
My God Amanda, you are none to worldly! Mr. Queen was borrowing the title from an HBO drama from the 2000’s titled “Queer like folk”. He may have mildly Plagiarized, but I don’t think it was intended to defame anyone.
Though many people think so, the Confederate flag does NOT represent racism. Educate your self.
Why wear a shirt calling your self a queer if you wouldnt want someone else to call you that? These students are seeking attention and that’s clearly what they are getting. I see everyone as equal, and if the LGBTQ wants to be treated as such, stop using your sexuality for attention.
You’d never see a straight kid wearing a straight pride t shirt & if they did, they too would be dress coded because the LGQBT would take it offensive. I know you’re high school kids but seriously grow up. You wanted attention, not to feel equal. If you wanted to feel equal, you wouldnt be putting your sexuality on a t shirt, youd be wearing the coolest new Hollister shirt or whatever kids are wearing these days.
Good for the school for doing this. Shame on them for backing down. Shame on those flaunting sin. Yes it is sin. If it wasn’t these perverts wouldn’t push so hard. There was a time when people had some self respect and decency. Girls and boys had respect for one another and this stuff was kept quiet. Time to get back to God.
Why was it kept quiet? They’re being and doing who they were born to be. They were born that way, so let them be who they were meant to be. God let them be born that way, no matter what you think, that’s a fact.
It’s so weird that if you don’t agree with certain things nowadays people get flipped out!!!! If you don’t agree you don’t agree what’s the big deal?! I don’t agree with everything, it’s not normal to agree with everything.
Wade Queen, while I appreciate the article, why did you feel it was okay to headline it with “queer as folk” or include such terminology as a controversy of the “flaming” kind? Those kids
Ignorance is bliss, Don’t underestimate the bible belt. Christianity was produced out of ignorance in the Roman times.
School is not a place for that .
When I’m on my deathbed, I’ll sure be glad that I stood up for Christ. What hope do you have, if you don’t have hope of spending eternity in heaven? There is no way that a higher power didn’t CREATE this universe and all that’s in it. There is male and female of every living creature. How could that just hsppen? How did a male ape happen to form at the same time that a female ape formed allowing them to reproduce? If you believe in evolution, you believe in it because you don’t want to believe in God and you don’t want to live the life that he ask us to live. You want to live your heaven here on earth for the short time that we are here.
You’re born with your sexual orientation, it’s not something you choose to do, you’re born to do and be who you’re meant to be. Nature obviously has male and female creatures to procreate, but people and animals can be born with both sexual organs, etc. So let’s get real, gay, straight or bi, you’re BORN that way. That’s a fact of life, nature, and science.
Keep in mind there is a virtually unlimited amount of evidence pointing to evolution as the reason humans exist. And the world is ALOT older that a couple thousand years. A lot of scientific evidence of that too. I dont see why people wanna back christianity so hard but are so quick to discount alien life in the universe as BS. They’re is the same amount of proof for both but since the majority of people agree with christianity that is automatically considered a fact. In reality all these different religious beliefs are merely ideas to comfort people in the time of death. Who’s to say we all dont just cease to exist once we die? It’s not like were gonna care either way we will be dead and our brains will cease function.
Is our nation going to hell in a hand basket? Nope……already there!
Let people be themselves, it’s that simple. They were born that way. People forget that people can be born with both sexual organs, Siamese twins, thousands of mental and physical defects of all kinds, but you’re trying to say they wasn’t born that way? That’s complete ignorance at its best. I don’t care how you believe or what denomination you are, you can’t deny what I just said.
So your saying being LGBTQ is a mental or physical defect. Got it. No arguement on my part.
No. I’m not saying that at all. People that don’t believe you’re born that way are ignorant. The point is that you are born the way you are. People say God wouldn’t let people be born that way are complete morons. I wasn’t trying to equate being born with mental or physical defects to being born straight, gay or bisexual. Are you saying they’re not born that way? Why do you or anyone else think you can’t be born that way? Please explain.
I will leave the debate on religion and science to others. I think a taxpayer funded school system is for the simple education of our youth. If sexual orientation or the display thereof is a school subject, does that not discriminate against straight people? The sole purpose of an education is to learn math history science and many other things one needs in preparation for life employment etc. Religion ‘at least Christion religion’ was forced out of the classroom, with a claim it discriminated against those you didn’t believe it. How may I ask can it be a place to market the agenda of the LGBTQ community? Is that not discriminating to those who don’t accept it as their way of life? Let school be for what it was intended. I don’t believe homosexual or heterosexual preferences are necessarily learned; but the taxpayer paid school system is not the place to debate the issue. I do believe the liberal far left envisions that idea, and attempts to shove it down our collective throats. No pun intended. 🙂
AMEN, nature teaches us not to lay with the same sex look around even trees are male and female.
Hey Jeremy. Lots of trees are hermaphroditic — that is, their flowers contain both male and female reproductive parts.
Good job on your research, dipwad.
While he was trying to use “Queer” as a plagiarism from the HBO show Queer as Folk, I revoke my forgiveness because of the “flaming” remark. That’s not professional, considering that is usually coupled with negative connotations I feel that’s something that needs to be dealt with.
As for the bigots in this post, grow up. You are spouting sin sin sin. Okay, where does it say you guys are required to call out your beliefs and harass the people supposedly sinning?! I think I missed that part of the bible. I’m just saying, whatever you believe, no one gives a damn about. You and your fake deities?! Whatever makes you sleep at night, just know, you branding people and claiming it’s because your religion, simply shows you have no faith and you yourself don’t believe what you’re saying because you have to give it backing that other people believe in to make yourself believe it.
I know drug use is rampant, but has it infected everyone in this region?!? In a Zombie apocalypse you’d be the people the zombies would ignore because they didn’t want that much stupid floating around in their body.