Constance McMillen

“We have just been informed that the administration would not like us to move forward with this show due to ‘community concern’ over the themes.”

The same school district that banned Constance McMillen from bringing her girlfriend to prom is still at it.

Constance McMillen became a poster child for LGBT rights after asking permission to bring her girlfriend to the prom. When her school responded by cancelling the prom, McMillen took legal action.

Constance McMillen, a Mississippi teen who sued her school for canceling the prom rather than let her attend with her girlfriend, will be the subject of a made-for-TV movie. “It is a project that is in the very early stages,” confirmed the ABC Family cable channel.

A Mississippi school district has agreed to pay a recent high school graduate $35,000 in damages and adopt a policy prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, according to a statement released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union.

Constance McMillen did not get to attend her high school prom after her Mississippi high school canceled it rather than allow her to bring her girlfriend. But she will be an honored guest at an even bigger celebration: she has been named a grand marshal of the gay pride parade in New York, the NY […]

Former ‘N Sync member Lance Bass will join celebrity chef Cat Cora and members of Green Day are among those helping to pay for a gay-friendly prom in Mississippi after a lesbian teen was duped into attending a “fake prom” earlier this month. According to the Advocate, the Tupelo, Miss. event, scheduled for May 8, […]

Constance McMillen finally attended her senior prom Friday at a country club in Fulton, Mississippi. But to avoid McMillen bringing a female date to her prom, she was sent to a “fake prom” while the rest of her class partied at a secret location at an event organized by parents. McMillen tells The Advocate that […]

School officials in Mississippi violated a lesbian student’s constitutional rights by banning her from dressing in a tuxedo and taking her girlfriend to the school prom, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. But the judge stopped short of forcing Itawamba Agricultural High School to reinstate the April 2 prom, which it canceled two weeks ago […]

Ellen DeGeneres presented a $30,000 scholarship on behalf of Tonic.com Friday to a teenage lesbian whose high school prom was canceled when she asked to attend with a girl. Constance McMillen, 18, appeared on The […]

The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit Thursday against Itawamba Agricultural High School in Fulton, Miss., after the school district decided to cancel this year’s prom rather than let a lesbian student attend the dance with her girlfriend. At the center of the lawsuit is a memorandum from the school that was circulated to students […]

A Mississippi high school has called off the annual senior prom after a lesbian student demanded she be allowed to bring her girlfriend. The Itawamba County school board announced […]