Gay kiss blacked out of year book.

[Wildcard Ky]

School Officials Black Out Photo of a Gay Student’s Kiss

NEWARK, June 23 — It started with a kiss.


A black-marker splotch covered the photo, above, in students' yearbooks.
Andre Jackson, a senior at East Side High School, leaned over his boyfriend’s shoulder one day several months ago and kissed him on the lips. He took a picture of the smooch with his digital camera.

Like other students, Mr. Jackson later paid $150 to have his own special page of photos in the school yearbook. He decided to include the picture of the kiss, to make not a political statement, but a personal one.

NYT article

 

[Stella_Omega]

Oooh, cool-- just what my spleen needed to see today! The superintendent just might get stuck with the cost of reprinting the whole batch. This wasn't in Idaho, after all...

 

[slyc_willie]

Ah, good old-fashioned American irony and two-facedness.

"Come out of the closet! Just don't let us see it."

 

[CeriseNoire]

I'm not so surprised. I used to volunteer at that school when I was an undergrad. I remember a lot of the teachers making comments about gay kids showing affection in the halls

 

[slyc_willie]

For some reason, I'm willing to bet that if it was a picture of two hot teenaged lesbians making out, no one would really mind . . . .

 

[starrkers]

Well, that's because lesbians can't actually do anything to each other, isn't it?

 

[slyc_willie]

Well, that's because lesbians can't actually do anything to each other, isn't it?

I'm willing to bet there are more than a few here in the AH who would disagree there . . .

*ducking*

 

[starrkers]

I'm willing to bet there are more than a few here in the AH who would disagree there . . .

*ducking*

*snerk* undoubtedly
Sorry, I was channelling Queen Victoria for a minute there

 

[Dar~]

What if she was being honest and she had been mislead. This could potenially stop her career b/c she was misinformed.
I'm a dyke, and it sounds to me, in the phases she used, that she really was misiformed. I don't know her personally, but I am not angry.

 

[CeriseNoire]

What if she was being honest and she had been mislead. This could potenially stop her career b/c she was misinformed.
I'm a dyke, and it sounds to me, in the phases she used, that she really was misiformed. I don't know her personally, but I am not angry.

Well, from what I saw of her when I was in the area, she didn't seem like she would do this purposely. Now people from that school misleading her, not surprising at all.

 

[Dar~]

Well, from what I saw of her when I was in the area, she didn't seem like she would do this purposely. Now people from that school misleading her, not surprising at all.

Well, it's like she said, she teaches tolerance why would she violate it? Also, she was busy with the upcoming graduation. What better time to mis-lead her so the finger was pointing somewhere else.
Just one other thing, doing this was a sure bet for negative publicity for the school district. Public schools get enough crap with out discrimination charges. I don't think she would have done it purposely.

 

[3113]

Well, that's because lesbians can't actually do anything to each other, isn't it?

Hmmm. You might be right. We'd better make sure. There must be a pair of lesbians here that we can put together, see if they can actually do anything to each other.....

Any lesbians willing to volunteer? It's for a good cause.

Honest.

 

[Dar~]

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[Dar~]

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[Jilly J]

What if she was being honest and she had been mislead. This could potenially stop her career b/c she was misinformed.
I'm a dyke, and it sounds to me, in the phases she used, that she really was misiformed. I don't know her personally, but I am not angry.

As the Superintendent, I think she has a responsibility to get all the information, not look at one page and listen to what someone else has to say, before making that choice. They said the other page had a girl in a guy's lap, with his hand on her leg while they kissed. A quick look at the next page should have been enough to make her examine the book more closely. I would imagine that the Yearbook had an editor, and a faculty adviser, yet it made it to print with the photo. That alone should have had her questioning the "neither of them are students" lie. Besides, even if I didn't know the guy, if it were my yearbook, I'd be pissed if I spent $85 for something and before getting it someone took a magic marker to it to censor it.

 

[slyc_willie]

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That was hot the first time you posted it . . .

But now . . . God damn.

 

[slyc_willie]

As the Superintendent, I think she has a responsibility to get all the information, not look at one page and listen to what someone else has to say, before making that choice. They said the other page had a girl in a guy's lap, with his hand on her leg while they kissed. A quick look at the next page should have been enough to make her examine the book more closely. I would imagine that the Yearbook had an editor, and a faculty adviser, yet it made it to print with the photo. That alone should have had her questioning the "neither of them are students" lie. Besides, even if I didn't know the guy, if it were my yearbook, I'd be pissed if I spent $85 for something and before getting it someone took a magic marker to it to censor it.

Not to mention the fact that students are more tolerant than many teachers. The picture made it past the students in charge of developing the year book, and they didn't seem to mind.

After all, year books are made for students, right?

 

[angelicminx]

“I’m a superintendent that talks about tolerance,” she said. “I don’t have a problem at all.”

“It looked like two men kissing,” she said. “To me, it looked fairly illicit. It was pointed out as problematic, so maybe I read more into it.”

“I thought that the photo was suggestive,” Ms. Bolden said.

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z263/Angelic_Minx/24yearbook-2_190.jpg

She said she felt that the photo was provocative for a high school yearbook, regardless of whether it showed heterosexual or homosexual kissing.

On the page immediately opposite Mr. Jackson’s, a young man and a young woman kiss on a couch, his hand on her leg as she sits on his lap.

Tolerance my fucking ass! This kind of shit pisses me off. It's a fucking kiss! It's not like they were naked and sucking on each other's cocks. If one kiss is removed, ALL kisses should be removed.

"Illicit"? "Suggestive"? "Provocative"? Damn, I feel sorry for her partner if this photo is over the top for her. The description of the photo on the opposite page sounds like it was more illicit, suggestive and provocative to me.

She said she was told on Thursday that neither of the men were students, adding that she would have been more hesitant to black out a picture of a student.

Like other students, Mr. Jackson later paid $150 to have his own special page of photos in the school yearbook. …yearbooks they had bought for around $85…


The lack of logic in 'what she was told' speaks volumes. What 18-year-old is going to fork out that kind of fucking money for a yearbook where they don't go to school?!

 

[Stella_Omega]

That's a beautiful, romantic picture, and if it had been a hetero couple the finger-pointer wouldn't have thought twice about it. Someone will probably lose their job over this-- hopefully the person who complained, if that part of the story is true.

It's incredible to me as well, that the Principle, or the yearbook advisor, or anyone at all-- didn't protest the decision and at least start a dialogue with her. Blind obedience, anyone?

 

[Liar]

They must have been reeeeeally stressed out if they didn't stop and think "Oh by the way, is this going to end well?" when they stood there with their black markers.

 

[Jagged]

I am not one for gay rights...frankly I think nobody should be deprived of their constitutional rights for any reason. That being said I am a resident of NJ if any of you didn't know that and I know the school district where this took place. They have many more important issues to deal with including drugs, gangs, poverty, and the educational system as a whole.


basically there are more important things to deal with so why bother with the year book....be happy they are graduating from school and are happy.

 

[TheEarl]

I'm sorry, I don't buy the 'misinformed' line. Blacking out a photo in 250 yearbooks is a lot of boring, reptitive work and, added to that, deleting any photo from a students' yearbook is going to give a lot of extra hassle. People generally won't do that much work if they're not convinced that they have to. I'm afraid that I don't buy that she was told that, "This photo is inappropriate; we must delete it in every copy," and then promptly expunged it, without so much as turning a page to see whether it was inappropriate in the context.

I don't think she made a homophobic decision. I'd imagine that she was probably told by the homophobe who reported it that he/she/it would go to the press/her superiors and accuse her of being unChristian/anti-American/hating-freedom unless she had it deleted.

The Earl

PS. Agree with Stella; it looks like a really nice photo.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I am not one for gay rights...frankly I think nobody should be deprived of their constitutional rights for any reason. That being said I am a resident of NJ if any of you didn't know that and I know the school district where this took place. They have many more important issues to deal with including drugs, gangs, poverty, and the educational system as a whole.


basically there are more important things to deal with so why bother with the year book....be happy they are graduating from school and are happy.

So, if a second class citizen's lesser rights is stomped on it's no big whoop to you.

I'm so glad you got a chance to get that off your chest.

 

[TheEarl]

I am not one for gay rights...frankly I think nobody should be deprived of their constitutional rights for any reason. That being said I am a resident of NJ if any of you didn't know that and I know the school district where this took place. They have many more important issues to deal with including drugs, gangs, poverty, and the educational system as a whole.


basically there are more important things to deal with so why bother with the year book....be happy they are graduating from school and are happy.

I don't know that they are more important things. To me, it's equivalent in offence to if they were marked out because they were black. Surely freedom is supposed to be the thing that America is all about?

The Earl

 

[NoJo]

I'd be okay with it if they were white