And wherever you are this week, you're bound to spot some spray-tanned, corsaged, Red Bull-pumped teens encased in glitter and rented tuxes.
Two interesting prom stories this week-- one that's really forward thinking, and one that looks way back. A gay LA teen was voted 'Prom Queen' last Saturday, after a campaign that seemed to start as a joke and then became the real deal. On the opposite end of the 'forward thinking' spectrum, a high school in Georgia still has a segregated prom, and while for the most part the kids seem ok with it, they do also understand fundamentally that there's something f**ked up about it. There's a documentary about segregated proms called "Prom Night in Mississippi" that will air on HBO in July that seems to tackle the point of view of the kids graduating-- white kids and black kids who do everything together for four years, and then celebrate prom separately.
If neither of these things interest you, maybe this photo will.
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