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Student Sent Home for "Lady Gay Gay" Shirt


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Greenbrier High School in White House, Tenn. sent a student home Monday on the grounds that his “I (Heart) Lady Gay Gay” T-shirt caused a “disruption,” prompting allegations of a free-speech violation. The shirt refers to gay icon Lady Gaga.

According to NBC affiliate WSMV-TV  in Nashville, “Cole Goforth's mother said the school is violating her son's freedom of speech and expression rights because kids who wear religious shirts and rebel flag shirts aren't sent home. The school said a shirt he wore is a disruption.”

Julie Gordon said she believes her 15-year-old son is being singled out.

“I think they are singling him out, I really do, and they've made statements that if he wore this in California, he'd fit in just fine,” she told WSMV-TV.

While shirts with the word “gay” on them are not specifically banned, the Robertson County School Board leaves it to principals to interpret the dress code. Administrators said they feared an escalation in the tense atmosphere sparked by a recent fight.

The school invited Julie Gordon to appeal the dress code.

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Reader Comments
  • Name: jo
    Date posted: 9/16/2010 2:37:05 PM
    Hometown: ergner

    Comment:

    Lady ga ga is an ass hole and needs to get a life....her name should be changed to Lady Gay Gay cuz shes gay! ok the end

  • Name: Megan
    Date posted: 5/13/2010 12:47:04 PM
    Hometown: Nashville

    Comment:

    Omg that is so fucking stupid!!! Ok so his shirt has the word gay on it...ooh big f-ing deal!!!!!! See this is what's wrong with america...fucking homophobes who think that anything "gay" should be banned. Gay,lesbian,bisexual and transgender are people with feeling!!!!!! I hate this shit...Lady gaga is amazing and ay people are to. SO this school needs to stop being uptight fuckwads who think being gay is wrong and who think that gay people don't have the right to freedom of speech!!! so FUCK OFF...GAY PRIDE ALL THE WAY!!!!!!! I LOVE LADY GAY GAY!!!!!

  • Name: angie
    Date posted: 5/1/2010 11:58:46 AM
    Hometown: greenbrier

    Comment:

    Greenbrier high school is greenbreir TN dumb ass

  • Name: Bob Dole
    Date posted: 4/20/2010 3:24:56 PM
    Hometown: Greenbrier

    Comment:

    Greenbrier High School is in Greenbrier you dumb fucks

  • Name: John
    Date posted: 4/11/2010 1:03:07 PM
    Hometown: Greenbriar

    Comment:

    I'm gay and go to the same high school as Cole Goforth. I wear rainbow clothing, gay pride clothing, etc. all the time. The difference between he and I is i'm not disruptive about my display of my pride. He was a disrespectful idiot about it.

  • Name: Christopher
    Date posted: 4/11/2010 11:57:47 AM
    Hometown: White House

    Comment:

    I know Cole personally. He's an attention seeker, he does it all the fucking time. That is all.

  • Name: Citizen
    Date posted: 4/10/2010 8:22:53 AM
    Hometown: Greenbrier

    Comment:

    That's "Greenbrier High School" in "Greenbrier, TN"...not White House, TN....that would be considered White House High School if it was in White House.

  • Name: GreenbrierMom
    Date posted: 4/10/2010 3:16:32 AM
    Hometown: Greenbrier

    Comment:

    A little more to the story. Cole has been openly gay since middle school, I have a child who attends school with him, and the only times that he has been involved in altercations is when he has inniated them. He did so last year by making sexually explicit comments to another boy. Cole also openly wears more makeup than 90% of the girl in that school on any given day, and has yet to be beaten up because of it. So those who are saying that we are homophobes are not correct, we just want our kids to be able to learn in a safe enviroment, and this kid broke the dress code and caused a disruption. There is no need for protests, or any other kind of back lash, this kid's parents have chosen to take it up with the board and that is where it needs to lie. Leave it alone and let our kids get back to what is important, their EDUCIATION!!!!!

  • Name: TC
    Date posted: 4/9/2010 11:37:13 PM
    Hometown: Springfield TN

    Comment:

    More to the story than you know. He sexually harassed a FEMALE classmate in Gaga's name and THAT is what got him suspended. Fucking do some real research before you go copying and pasting stories from half-rate news stations.

  • Name: O Cean
    Date posted: 4/8/2010 7:11:10 PM
    Hometown: Oakland CA

    Comment:

    Sending much SUPPORT to all the queer high school students who are standing up for their human right to BE queer and BE visible !! This situation, like Itawumba, is clearly about homophobia. Fearing and disliking non-heterosexual people. Folks, STOP IT. Stop disliking queers! It's not OK! Learn to LIKE queer people. Meet them, befriend them, get to know them -- you have queers in your family, school, workplace, comunitity, government, as teachers, as your doctors, lawyers, and entertainers. Gays, lesbians, bisexual, transgender, and queer folks of all kinds have contributed greatly to ALL communities in your state, country, and planet! Learn to LOVE GAYS, ok?

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