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The 100-plus teens who planned to attend Storybook Pride Prom at Willowbranch Library in Jacksonville, Florida, got their special night of music and dance after all. The library had canceled the prom out of safety concerns following backlash spurred by a conservative blogger, but the Buckman Bridge Unitarian Universalist Church in Jacksonville stepped in to host the LGBTQ event instead. According to Grace Repass, Buckman Bridge’s past president, the church board unanimously supported the decision to offer space for the...

Photo by Steven Van on Unsplash A Florida church is being recognized for supporting LGBTQ teens. In Jacksonville, Florida, the Storybook Pride Prom was a proposed event to honor LGBTQ teens. At it, the teens were given a space to be themselves, date, and have fun with others like them and their allies. Unfortunately, this year’s event was almost canceled thanks to conservative backlash. The Willowbranch Library was going to host the event where teens could dress in the costumes of their...

It’s prom season, and like many couples across America, teenagers Theodore Vidal and his boyfriend Colin Beyers were stretching out the end of their prom night. The two high schoolers, walking in their matching navy blue tuxes and pink bow ties, took a stroll on the boardwalk in Seaside Heights, New Jersey. As they walked, they approached a rooftop bar where a rowdy group of quintessential "Jersey Shore bros" had been yelling at every couple who passed by to kiss. Michael Del...

Good Morning America producer Mike Del Moro was walking the Seaside Heights, New Jersey, boardwalk with his boyfriend, mom, and sister after celebrating Mother’s Day when he saw it start. As high school prom goers strolled by in their finest dresses and tuxedos, a group of rowdy “bros” started yelling at them from a rooftop bar. The guys were “obnoxiously yelling ‘KISS HER!’ in unison at every apparent couple that passed by,” Del Moro recounted on Twitter. https://twitter.com/MikeDelMoro/status/995340412616404994?tfw_site=lgbtqnation&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2018%2F05%2Fsaw-two-gay-teens-walking-boardwalk-holding-hands-knew-targets%2F But when a young gay...

For as much hate as millennials get, one thing that they have gotten truly right is their ability to accept others for who they are. This could not be truer than the vast amount of queer couples who have attended prom this year, as they have been showcasing just how special their night was all over social media. Going to prom with someone with someone of the same sex or identifies with you as LGBTQ is something that is still...

David Hogg And Cameron Kasky Continue To Swoon Us! #CUTE! Ahh! Prom season is approaching. Arguably the best time of a Senior High School Student’s life. Whether you’re going with a friend or your special date, it’s a guaranteed good time. I don’t believe I’ve ever recalled someone telling me they had a horrible prom experience. While growing up LGBTQ, some of us may not have gone to prom for one reason or another. It’s likely we weren’t allowed to...

"It is nice to be able to go to prom with whoever you want and not have to worry about what other people might think,” says Missouri senior Jake Bain. Prom is often the culmination of a great high school experience. But as the only openly gay students at John Burroughs School in Ladue, Missouri, it was more than that for seniors—and boyfriends—Jake Bain and Hunter Sigmund. https://instagram.com/p/Bhm63-KHuTl/?utm_source=ig_embed “Prom this year was amazing,” Sigmund shared with Outsports. It was my fourth school...

This December we covered the inspiring story of gay high school football team captain Jake Blain's upcoming tenure at Indiana State University. Now things have gone from inspiring to awwwz-inducing as pics of Blain and his swim team boyfriend Hunter Sigmund attending prom together have hit the web! At only nineteen-years-old, Blain has already made headlines for not only his sports career, but also for the discrimination he faced from Westboro Baptist Church after announcing his four years at Indiana...

"What we've had to go through, we don't want anyone else to feel the same way," says Chattahoochee High class president Carter Hebert. Two gay high schoolers in Georgia say administrators won’t allow them to run together as prom kings. Joel Lerner and Carter Hebert were both nominated by classmates to be in the Royal Court at Chattahoochee High School in Johns Creek. They were two of three boys nominated, and students also nominated three girls. But their hopes of becoming...

'We want to show it is possible to be out and happy in a small community' A gay couple are set to appear on MTV’s Promposal series. The TV show documents the lengths teenagers go to to invite their boyfriend or girlfriend to their senior prom. There will be a total of sex episodes, but gay couple Ambrose and Caddell will be featured in the fourth episode of the series. “Asking Noah to prom was something I’ll remember for the rest of my...

Brie Grimes, 17, was named prom queen and her girlfriend Lindsey Creel, 18, prom king at their high school in Tallahassee. The couple celebrated their three year anniversary in February after meeting during their first year at Leon High School through friends. Brie said: ‘Prom night was so much fun – we literally danced the night away. ‘We didn’t expect to win considering the people we were up against. ‘We began to get really close and in such a short period of time...

Thanks for the memories. Prom season is here: High school students across America have designed elaborate promposals, saved up their pennies and squeezed into formalwear for a magical evening of memory-making. And increasingly, proms have become inclusive of LGBT kids. Below are heart-tugging photos of queer students and their friends and allies, all gussied up for the big night. http://imgur.com/a/8b8fj#DM9JgTo https://www.instagram.com/p/BTAooR_lS3B/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BTSvR_aDElp/ Indianapolis’s North Central high school crowned 17-year-old Alan Belmont as their first-ever transgender prom king this year. He’s pictured here with his girlfriend...

A gay teen is suing his former high school after its refusal to let him bring a date to homecoming. Lance Sanderson has launched legal action against Christian Brothers High School (CBHS) in Memphis, Tennessee. In his lawsuit, the 19-year-old argues that the all-boys private school violated anti-discrimination laws when he was denied permission to bring a boy to homecoming prom last year. Despite straight students being allowed to bring girls from other schools, Mr Sanderson was told the school would not...