At Danbury High School in the endless suburbs of Connecticut, a gay high school senior has been chosen as prom king as well as prom queen.
The student is Nasir Fleming, reports Danbury Patch.
Fleming’s fellow seniors voted for him as both king and queen of this year’s senior prom, which occurred on Saturday night
School officials would not allow Fleming to accept both honors, though. Thus, he accepted a tiara while graciously forgoing any crown.
The beaming prom queen thanked students for voting him into Danbury High royalty. He offered a special expression of gratitude to Rohit Das, the guy who ended up being prom king, because Das offered to dance with him during the king-and-queen dance.
Fleming noted that the two winning students did not, in fact, dance together. They danced with their dates instead. However, he was still totally happy.
“To be able to say, ‘Even though I’m straight and like girls, I’m willing to dance with a gay guy at the prom’ is huge,” he told Danville Patch.
Fleming, 17, also used his night in the limelight to criticize the world about the plight of transgender students, saying that he worried that cross-dressing students are too frequently ostracized.
“Even though being gay is becoming more accepted, transgenders are often seen as disgusting,” he lectured. “I’m tired of saying, ‘Let’s tolerate each other,’ because there’s always a little hate there. We need to start accepting each other.”
Fleming noted that he does identify as transgender himself. He is a gay male.
“To all the youth in the world: If we’re not breaking boundaries, we’re not living life,” the teen advised the Danbury Patch reporter.
“If a person can win a title for a different gender, why can’t a transgender person win that title?” the senior asked.
On this score, however, Fleming is way behind the times.
Last May, for example, a student at Middleborough High School in neighboring Massachusetts became the first transgender prom queen in the history of Middleborough, Mass. (pop. 23,000 or so), the cranberry capital of the world. (RELATED: Mass. High School Crowns Its Very First Transgender Prom Queen)
Wearing a silver tiara and a purple sash, and clasping a bouquet of pink flowers, the prom queen, biological male Cody Tubman, similarly spoke of himself in world-historical terms.
“It was surprising and it was exciting, ’cause I was like, we’re coming really far,” Tubman reflected.
Tubman had been dressing as a woman since sophomore year and officials at Middleborough High happily facilitated the cross-dressing, permitting him to use female bathrooms and locker rooms freely.
Earlier this academic year, at least two transgender high school kids ran for homecoming king and queen. (RELATED: This Week In Transgender High Schoolers Running For Homecoming King, Queen, Whatever)
At Richland High School in Johnstown, Pa., senior Kasey Caron, a biological female in some undetermined early stage of gender reassignment surgery, fought unsuccessfully for the right to run for homecoming king.
Before the big dance, Caron presented the case for why she should be allowed to run for homecoming king. The pitch included showing a Pennsylvania driver’s license categorizing Caron as male.
Caron was later allowed on the homecoming court, but as a female.
Meanwhile, in Huntington Beach, Calif., biologically male Cassidy Lynn Campbell fared better in his bid to become Marina High School’s first transgender homecoming queen. Not only was Campbell able to get on the homecoming queen ballot, he also took home the tiara.
The triumph turned out to be both the best of times and the worst of times for Campbell, though. After his historic victory, the dramatic student took to YouTube for an emotional rant lasting nearly nine minutes. He wore his silver tiara and yellow-trimmed homecoming sash for the video, entitled “i should be so happy…” (Thrill Of Victory, Agony Of Defeat For Transgender Homecoming Candidates)
Campbell’s main complaint was that he felt emotionally wounded by criticism and sometimes vile comments on social media sites after he was named homecoming queen. He announced that he had contemplated “going back to being miserable.” He warned that he may “just be a boy and hate myself again.”
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