Pro-gay high
school seniors get their own graduation ceremony

Three seniors in Howell, Mich., who were suspended and barred from their high school's graduation ceremony after they spray-pained "Love" on sidewalks and benches around the school held their own commencement this weekend. The Howell High School students painted the word more than 50 times around school property in early May to cover up an antigay message that had been written on a rock that students are allowed to decorate. They were suspended, as were two freshmen who wrote the original slur. A handful of teachers and about 35 graduating seniors, still in their caps and gowns from the formal graduation earlier in the day, also attended Saturday's alternate ceremony. Some of the school's 533 graduates showed their support for the suspended students by carrying signs that read "Love," the Livingston County Daily Press and Argus reported. (AP)