{"id":689710,"date":"2010-03-12T11:31:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T16:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=96290"},"modified":"2010-03-12T11:31:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T16:31:06","slug":"lesbian-teen-constance-mcmillen-says-school-cancelled-prom-over-same-sex-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/689710","title":{"rendered":"Lesbian Teen Constance McMillen Says School Cancelled Prom Over Same-Sex Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Mississippi teen Constance McMillen &#8212; who happens to be a lesbian &#8212; says her high school nixed the annual junior\/senior prom because she wanted to wear a tuxedo and escort her girlfriend to the event. The 18-year-old and her lawyer Christine Sun spoke to  <em>The Early Show<\/em> Friday about a federal lawsuit over the Fulton, Mississippi school&#8217;s refusal to allow same-sex couples to attend prom.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/BKWdy1ZllAFRlyH5QVGGWbvmnkA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/BKWdy1ZllAFRlyH5QVGGWbvmnkA\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/BKWdy1ZllAFRlyH5QVGGWbvmnkA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/BKWdy1ZllAFRlyH5QVGGWbvmnkA\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mississippi teen Constance McMillen &#8212; who happens to be a lesbian &#8212; says her high school nixed the annual junior\/senior prom because she wanted to wear a tuxedo and escort her girlfriend to the event. The 18-year-old and her lawyer Christine Sun spoke to The Early Show Friday about a federal lawsuit over the Fulton, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Tqm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}