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“Absolute Embarrassment”: Parents Are Beyond Mad After Ohio School Pupils Elect A Lesbian Couple As Prom King And Queen
Annie Wise and Riley Loudermilk, a pair of high schoolers in Kings Mill, Ohio, have been dating for six months now. On April 17, they were voted the prom king and queen, which they believe is the first time an LGBTQ couple has received the crowns in this district.
The excitement was through the roof when Wise recounted the moment how “My crown fell off and it broke. There was a lot going on, but it’s something I’ll never forget. It was amazing.” And while many see the prom couple as a recognition of their popularity, for Annie and Riley, the honor was much more than that. “I do hope it kind of just helps people realize that it’s OK to come out,” the prom queen told the press.
Meanwhile, some parents were enraged with the lesbian couple winning the title. It’s honestly more than weird to see a bunch of adults bashing teenagers for something that brought the school community nothing but happiness.
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Annie and Riley, the 18-year-old lesbian couple from Kings High School, were elected prom king and queen, an honor they didn’t expect
Image credits: KingsLocalSchoolDistrict
Image credits: KingsLocalSchoolDistrict
Kings Local School District shared a photograph of Annie and Riley on their Facebook page and it went viral, amassing 4.8k likes and receiving 2.4k comments. Unfortunately, not all comments on the school district’s post were positive.
The couple has been dating for six months and they hope that their award “just helps people realize that it’s OK to come out”
Image credits: riley.loudermilk
Image credits: riley.loudermilk
According toNBC News, the school district had to keep up with the coming posts and delete the negative ones. Riley said that many of those nasty comments said that the couple “needs Jesus,” others expressed that a prom king should be male.
Image credits: riley.loudermilk
Image credits: riley.loudermilk
The rage escalated to a school board meeting last week where one parent stressed her anger about the elected couple being LGBTQ. “Sorry, but I believe that there are still two genders, a male and a female,” WLWT5 news reports. According to Fox19, another parent at the meeting added: “I think tradition stands for a queen that has a vagina, a king that has a penis and testicles.”
Image credits: riley.loudermilk
Image credits: riley.loudermilk
The homophobic comments from adults both online and at the school board meeting didn’t affect the decision as the school board defended Annie and Riley. Dawn Goulding, a community relations coordinator for the school district, commented on the matter: “This is solely a Kings High School senior class nominated and voted-on initiative.”
Image credits: annie_wisee
But the week after prom, an anonymous parent had a school meeting where she complained about the decision of electing the LGBTQ couple
Image credits: zoom
Negative comments from haters started flooding in
Fortunately, many people showed support for the LGBTQ king and queen
What do you think ?
Demi Zwaan 4 years ago
I just can't understand these people. What harm does it do to ANYONE to crown a lesbian couple? They are happy and no one gets hurt. Win-win. I mean, it's not like you're worse at making coffee because gay people exist? Or you suddenly suck at math because you saw two women kiss? Or you're not allowed to be straight and live your life the way you want, just because others live their lives differently?
Anna Banana 4 years ago
Somehow, a lot of people seem to think exactly that. It's like z zero-sum equation to them, where giving rights to a group of people will take those rights away from others.
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Hans 4 years ago
Whoever in the year 2021 still gets "shocked" by the fact that non-heterosexual people exist, is an idiot. Whoever argues with "god" against non-heterosexual people should first and foremost consider their lack of fear in said god whom they ignore, as they decide which of the religion's values (traditional famility model vs. grace of charity) they weight how much instead. Whoever argues against love is to be condemned.
Terd Fergison 4 years ago
The bible and Quran say that you're supposed to stone homosexuals to death. If they aren't willing to follow through on killing homosexuals, they should just shut up. The bible also says to kill divorced people. If they aren't decrying divorce as loudly as they decry homosexuality, they are hypocrites. Faith is irrelevant, stupid, and religions are testably untrue. People should dump these harmful, evil myths entirely. And you have to stop making excuses for these evil religions.
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Spinz 4 years ago
This is so stupid. My old high school just had "Prom Royalty" instead, and nobody gives a s**t what gender they end up being, which really is how it should be everywhere. Good for these girls!!
elStiJneriNO 4 years ago
here we just had a ball with dancing and drinking and nobody got elected better than the rest.
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Demi Zwaan 4 years ago
I just can't understand these people. What harm does it do to ANYONE to crown a lesbian couple? They are happy and no one gets hurt. Win-win. I mean, it's not like you're worse at making coffee because gay people exist? Or you suddenly suck at math because you saw two women kiss? Or you're not allowed to be straight and live your life the way you want, just because others live their lives differently?
Anna Banana 4 years ago
Somehow, a lot of people seem to think exactly that. It's like z zero-sum equation to them, where giving rights to a group of people will take those rights away from others.
Load More Replies... Hans 4 years ago
Whoever in the year 2021 still gets "shocked" by the fact that non-heterosexual people exist, is an idiot. Whoever argues with "god" against non-heterosexual people should first and foremost consider their lack of fear in said god whom they ignore, as they decide which of the religion's values (traditional famility model vs. grace of charity) they weight how much instead. Whoever argues against love is to be condemned.
Terd Fergison 4 years ago
The bible and Quran say that you're supposed to stone homosexuals to death. If they aren't willing to follow through on killing homosexuals, they should just shut up. The bible also says to kill divorced people. If they aren't decrying divorce as loudly as they decry homosexuality, they are hypocrites. Faith is irrelevant, stupid, and religions are testably untrue. People should dump these harmful, evil myths entirely. And you have to stop making excuses for these evil religions.
Load More Replies... Spinz 4 years ago
This is so stupid. My old high school just had "Prom Royalty" instead, and nobody gives a s**t what gender they end up being, which really is how it should be everywhere. Good for these girls!!
elStiJneriNO 4 years ago
here we just had a ball with dancing and drinking and nobody got elected better than the rest.
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