Lesbians Take Girls to Prom: We Have a Gallery For That

on March 11, 2010

So this girl Constance McMillen wanted to take a girl to prom, and wear a tux, and the principal was like hell to the no, and then the ACLU got involved, and then the school just decided it would be better to cancel prom altogether. Why are they so afraid of how cute girls look in menswear? No but srsly.

We have a feeling, even though we are old, that some girls are bringing girls to homecoming/prom/fancy-wear day dances these days. Amirite? Are you one of those girls/boys? Well let's celebrate those photos everyone is so f*cking afraid of! VISIBILITY, LADIES!

Send us your prom photos!

1. Email your photo to autostraddle [at] gmail [dot] com.

2. We won't publish your name [unless you give us permission] but...

3. If you can, we'd love to know when & where the photo was taken -- city/state & year of the event.

4. We'll start putting up the gallery this evening and keep building it as we get submissions. [You can see it here in this post, or on its own page.]

5. If absolutely necessary we can smiley-face over your ex-girlfriend if she's really crazy or a famous tennis player.

6. Everyone who sends in a photo will be entered to win a $25 Amazon.com Gift Certificate, we'll draw a name at random on Sunday and announce it in the Sunday Funday.

7. When you're done with that, check out LezGetReal, where the ladies are putting a full-court-press on Ellen (yah, that ELLEN!) to organize a prom in Mississippi so this girl can freakin' go!

And let's hope that come springtime, we'll be able to add Constance McMillan and her ladyfriend to the gallery.

Tell everyone! Tweet this, put it on your facebook, -- we wanna see a bajillion cute gay faces ready to embark upon the most overrated night of their lives -- fight the lesbian shaming.

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200 responses to “Lesbians Take Girls to Prom: We Have a Gallery For That”

DemiArianna (member)
March 11, 2010 at 2:26 pm Permalink Reply Report user

Omg this is so perfect, my gf wore a tux, I’m submitting now.

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JentheJew (member)
March 11, 2010 at 2:32 pm Permalink Reply Report user

Any girl that did has my total and complete respect. YOU ARE GODS.

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Xan
March 11, 2010 at 2:56 pm Permalink Reply

Didn’t go with my girlfriend- but my prom photo is me and 7 other girls- i’m so submitting that (even if just for the bragging rights!)

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Corey (member)
March 11, 2010 at 3:03 pm Permalink Reply Report user

Does it count if the dance was winter formal? If so I have the perfect picture.

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1. Laneia (member)
  March 11, 2010 at 3:05 pm Permalink Reply
  
  yes! we’ll accept any formal / fancy event that you attended in high school!
  
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queermo
March 11, 2010 at 3:04 pm Permalink Reply

oh man I wish! My senior year I asked my girlfriend to prom. I told my besties that I invited her, and subsequently shunned.

Salt in the wound? My gf cheated on me with a boy after that.

I have photos of me and my gay bf, and maybe some group photos of gay prom. Does that count?

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1. Vikki
  March 11, 2010 at 3:08 pm Permalink Reply
  
  I went to prom with a gay guy. Of course, neither of us knew we were gay back then.
  
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  1. taylor (member)
    March 11, 2010 at 3:26 pm Permalink Reply Report user
    
    I feel like i did too, but he was also a budding young republican politician-to-be.
    
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    1. Tiara the Merch Girl
      March 11, 2010 at 9:42 pm Permalink Reply
      
      So you went to prom with Rod from Avenue Q?
      
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    2. kelsey
      March 12, 2010 at 7:08 pm Permalink Reply
      
      dittoooo
      
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  2. via (member)
    March 11, 2010 at 7:03 pm Permalink Reply Report user
    
    oh, I am also in this boat.
    
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    1. g.h
      April 5, 2010 at 5:47 am Permalink Reply
      
      have good journey you see me soon!
      
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  3. Natalie
    March 11, 2010 at 11:49 pm Permalink Reply
    
    Same here!
    
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  4. Elizabeth (aka Elli) (member)
    March 12, 2010 at 1:03 am Permalink Reply Report user
    
    I went to a homecoming with a gay boy. We were both ‘straight’ then too… and sort of dating, although I suspected that *he* was gay at the time.
    
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  5. Molly
    March 12, 2010 at 10:50 pm Permalink Reply
    
    Me too! He was out to my group of friends, though, if not to the whole school; I was still in denial.
    
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2. Julia from MI
  March 12, 2010 at 9:12 am Permalink Reply
  
  The second time I went to prom, I went with my gay bf and we had matching hair. It was pretty much the best date ever.
  
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3. Ric
  March 15, 2010 at 9:41 am Permalink Reply
  
  Same-sies. Went to prom with my lesbian best friend.
  
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  1. Ric
    March 15, 2010 at 9:51 am Permalink Reply
    
    Are you serious? I get a default “surprise, Taylor” gif! Someone please tell me how to change my picture immediately!
    
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Yeoh
March 11, 2010 at 3:33 pm Permalink Reply

I went to my Junior Prom with a gay dude and I skipped by Senior Ball to go out on the town with two of my best girlfriends. I hade no clue at the time that there was a reason I was avoiding straight guys, but it all became clear a few short years later!

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Eryn A'mel
March 11, 2010 at 3:45 pm Permalink Reply

I just sent my photo in!
I was prom Princess

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1. DemiArianna (member)
  March 11, 2010 at 4:34 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  Eryn! I can’t wait to see.
  
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MOCAgrrrl (member)
March 11, 2010 at 4:51 pm Permalink Reply Report user

Frantically searching for pics…ahhh!

Yeah, so I went with a chick, but (unfortunately) we ended up being nothing more than friends. We both wore dresses, which was mostly forced on to us by our mothers…but we did look fantastic together…

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1. Tiara the Merch Girl
  March 11, 2010 at 9:43 pm Permalink Reply
  
  Are you Mel with the awesome hat in the photos?
  
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  1. fredric_modlic (member)
    March 12, 2010 at 7:14 am Permalink Reply Report user
    
    hee – no that doofus is me…& i’m lucky my girlfriend still loves me after I made stupid faces like that in all the photos, professional included
    
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    1. MOCAgrrrl (member)
      March 12, 2010 at 11:26 am Permalink Reply Report user
      
      Dude I wish that was me! That hat is awesome!!!
      
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wcollins2332 (member)
March 11, 2010 at 4:59 pm Permalink Reply Report user

I did indeed take a girl to prom. Picture has now been submitted.

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MsNJS (member)
March 11, 2010 at 5:35 pm Permalink Reply Report user

I went to prom with a girl but we weren;t dating or gay so that prob doesn;t count. But she was the prettiest girl there!
I am looking forward to this. I had a dream that autostraddle had a yearbook and everyone submitted photos for the superlatives. .
I do think the whole situation is just absurd and I am sorry that it is happening to that girl and consequently to the study body having to pay for the close mindedness of a few.

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1. taylor (member)
  March 11, 2010 at 6:17 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  ALEX MAKE AN AUTOSTRADDLE YEARBOOK GRAPHIC (in all of that spare time you have)!
  
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wasteunit (member)
March 11, 2010 at 5:57 pm Permalink Reply Report user

I was too cool to go to prom or anything like that. Everyone always told me that I’d look back and regret not going. I’ve been laughing in their faces… until now.

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1. paperbag
  March 11, 2010 at 7:34 pm Permalink Reply
  
  this.
  
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msamanda (member)
March 11, 2010 at 6:04 pm Permalink Reply Report user

i wanted to go to prom with a girl! but she was all, let’s go as friends, so we both brought dates, and then had all sorts of pre-lesbian drama on the dance floor while our (male) dates watched from their seats. but that probably doesn’t count…

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moose (member)
March 11, 2010 at 6:17 pm Permalink Reply Report user

oh god, those pictures are so old, i’ll have to dig out a scanner to submit! hah

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anna
March 11, 2010 at 6:35 pm Permalink Reply

Took a boy, but years later hooked up with a girl from our table. I really wish someone would throw a prom for people out of hs who didn’t get it right the first time.

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1. moose (member)
  March 11, 2010 at 7:06 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  DITTO
  
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2. Elizabeth (aka Elli) (member)
  March 12, 2010 at 1:05 am Permalink Reply Report user
  
  Right?
  
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sam
March 11, 2010 at 6:43 pm Permalink Reply

i went to queer prom in college. does that count?

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1. a;ex (member)
  March 11, 2010 at 9:20 pm Permalink Reply
  
  Sure why the hell not! Bring it!
  
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  1. queermo
    March 11, 2010 at 10:07 pm Permalink Reply
    
    Can I submit a group photo of gay prom, or a photo of me and my gay opposite-sex date and my high school’s prom?
    
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    1. Laneia (member)
      March 12, 2010 at 1:33 am Permalink Reply
      
      i say yes!
      
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      1. Missy (member)
        March 12, 2010 at 11:21 pm Permalink Reply Report user
        
        Just an idea, in the spirit of homo-together humanity, but I betcha we could double this gallery and show the haters a thing or two if the boys were invited to play (i.e.: send some emails out to the folks who run like-minded blogs and websites for the guys – afterelton, etc.).
        
        Girls in tuxes, girls in dresses, boys in tuxes, boys in dresses, and any combo therein…should prove the point.
        
        My 2 cents.
        
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        riese (member)
        March 12, 2010 at 11:42 pm Permalink Reply
        
        i like everything about that idea except for the part where we have to email a bunch of websites… i’d say the response rate of one website to another website’s request/suggestion for this or that project they are doing is probs like 5%? that’s why we didn’t do that the first time around. but i dunno, if they all posted about it that would be pretty amazing, i wonder if they would…
        
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        Missy (member)
        March 13, 2010 at 12:15 am Permalink
        
        I guess I made an assumption that there was more communication between you and the people who ran those sites, Riese…more like when you mention knowing the folks who run the lesbian blogs (re: when you were talking about the Lezzie awards).
        
        “Cold calling” might not be fruitful, but you never know.
        
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        Missy (member)
        March 13, 2010 at 12:31 am Permalink
        
        Know what? That came out wrong…
        Didn’t mean to sound like a jerk.
        Sorry
        
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Chrissy (member)
March 11, 2010 at 6:53 pm Permalink Reply Report user

I went to a somewhat “alternative” school that was really cool with the gay, and I took a girl to prom. Picture submitted!

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Lez-behonest.com
March 11, 2010 at 7:38 pm Permalink Reply

sadly i didn’t make it to prom, my friend and i sat on the steps of her house got really drunk and passed out in our dresses smh

my date was gonna be a boy anyway…so it worked out perfectly lol

BY THE WAY I LOVEEEEEEEEE THIS IDEAS GUYS!

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riese (member)
March 11, 2010 at 7:43 pm Permalink Reply

My school was soooooo okay with being gay that a lot of gay people went in opposite-sex couples for funsies. Also it was boarding school, so we got taken to the place in school busses and then afterwards all went bowling. I went with my boyfriend obviously. Junior year went with my gay best friend. Seems like A LOT OF US WENT WITH GAY BOYS. Interesting.

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1. wren (member)
  March 11, 2010 at 9:48 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  We totally went to the same high school.
  
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Lez-behonest.com
March 11, 2010 at 8:00 pm Permalink Reply

man im jealous of these prom photos lol someone should def do a nyc lesbian prom for those of us that didn’t go or those that went with boys!

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Deb Jordan
March 11, 2010 at 8:01 pm Permalink Reply

This are the most adorable and awesome photos I have EVER seen

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Erin-Nicole (member)
March 11, 2010 at 8:10 pm Permalink Reply Report user

Ugh this makes me soooo jealous.. my prom is coming up..I really want to ask this girl but i Dont have the GUTS to do it. Plus im already stuck going with a guy because I dint want to date him i told himid be his date…NOT FAIR!

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Amanda
March 11, 2010 at 8:28 pm Permalink Reply

I am part of the gay-boy date collective, as well. I wanted to go with a girl, but I was too scared to ask her at the time.

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March 11, 2010 at 8:37 pm Permalink Reply

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sansstatic
March 11, 2010 at 8:41 pm Permalink Reply

everyone in these pictures = BEAUTIFUL. i feel so warm and fuzzy now!

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Allie
March 11, 2010 at 8:46 pm Permalink Reply

oh my god I’M ON AUTOSTRADDLE (err, my picture is, anyways). This is so cool, you guys.

Now that my vanity is out of the way, everyone in these pictures are beyond adorable. Seeing picture of happy gay girls all dressed up is the perfect way to end my day.

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1. wcollins2332 (member)
  March 11, 2010 at 9:45 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  Haha I pretty much feel the same way.
  
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  1. Laneia (member)
    March 12, 2010 at 8:50 pm Permalink Reply
    
    you have the cutest smile in that picture!!
    
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    1. wcollins2332 (member)
      March 13, 2010 at 11:36 am Permalink Reply Report user
      
      lol thanks
      
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Allie
March 11, 2010 at 8:54 pm Permalink Reply

Whatup allie above me!

I’m on here too hollaaaaa!

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1. Allie
  March 11, 2010 at 9:06 pm Permalink Reply
  
  Holla! Way to spell Allie the awesome way!
  
  (totally kidding, people who spell it ali or ally or alli who hate me now)
  
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  1. Allie
    March 12, 2010 at 8:49 am Permalink Reply
    
    I mean, it’s the only way to spell it, right?
    
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    1. Jamie (member)
      March 12, 2010 at 4:48 pm Permalink Reply Report user
      
      [you guys]this is all so very confusing
      
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      1. Allie
        March 12, 2010 at 9:12 pm Permalink Reply
        
        too many Allies!
        
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Alex! (member)
March 11, 2010 at 9:01 pm Permalink Reply Report user

Last year I went to prom in a big group. :/ I wish I had a cute date like all of you lovely ladies! Shoot. I got asked if I wanted to wear a tux for senior portraits though, but I declined.

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rrrrrrrredhead (member)
March 11, 2010 at 9:12 pm Permalink Reply Report user

Yeah, those pics give me a serious case of the warm and fuzzies. I’m gonna go snuggle up to something warm and lesbian riiiiiight now.

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Brandi Williams
March 11, 2010 at 9:12 pm Permalink Reply

I would like to purpose a collage of these photos be put on billboards throughout the county of Itawamba. I am sure it would not be hard to find donors for this!

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Tiara the Merch Girl
March 11, 2010 at 9:48 pm Permalink Reply

aww how adorable!!

We didn’t have a concept of prom in school in Malaysia (moral panic over teenagers being sexual + Western culture panic) so I didn’t have my first “prom”ish experience till college ball. Which is where I met my guy. Though a few minutes earlier and I might have got the courage to ask a female friend out ahahaha.

eee squee. I feel like coming up to all of you and pinning corsages and pinching your cheeks like a proud mum.

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dot
March 11, 2010 at 10:18 pm Permalink Reply

this is super win.

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Laura (member)
March 11, 2010 at 10:44 pm Permalink Reply

AWWW our readers are so cute.

p.s. i spy someone who should be dragging her delinquent girlfriend to philadelphia so that we can all wreck havoc together stat!

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1. Bluemug
  March 11, 2010 at 11:48 pm Permalink Reply
  
  Looking at the photos made me unexpectedly tear up a wee bit.
  
  So my vision was a little blurred when I mis-read ‘dragging’ as ‘shagging’ as I flicked down through the comments.
  
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2. katrina (member)
  March 12, 2010 at 1:11 am Permalink Reply Report user
  
  lauuuuuuuuuraaaa wooley i was in your hood at like 3 in the a.m. yesterday en route back to d.c. as far as i’m concerned, it’s your fault we haven’t seen each other yet.
  /mhm
  
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Lynne
March 11, 2010 at 11:04 pm Permalink Reply

This is so lovely! we weren’t even allowed to go stag at my school! *cough*catholic school.

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Ruth B
March 11, 2010 at 11:12 pm Permalink Reply

How long are you going to take submissions? I really want to submit but our prom is March 27.

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1. riese (member)
  March 12, 2010 at 12:03 am Permalink Reply
  
  actually i figure that we could keep taking submissions forever? we also have another page where the gallery is, like we do with all our galleries. i mean the contest will end this weekend but we can keep taking photos!
  
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  1. Ruth B
    March 13, 2010 at 1:11 am Permalink Reply
    
    Aww, I wanna win a contest for bein adorable. That’s okay though. I’ll totes submit later
    
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Debs
March 11, 2010 at 11:37 pm Permalink Reply

so cute! so cute! so cute! be older…and single…and live around me!!!!!!!!

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Lavienrose
March 11, 2010 at 11:37 pm Permalink Reply

My g/f submitted a pic with her ex…ohhhh so cute-i went to prom with a boy :/

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1. katrina (member)
  March 12, 2010 at 1:16 am Permalink Reply Report user
  
  haha mine, too, but whatevs, we got em now right?
  
  i went to prom stag, despite actually having had a girlfriend at the time, but it was just really something i ended up feeling too cool/lame for anyway.
  
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  1. Lavienrose
    March 12, 2010 at 2:28 am Permalink Reply
    
    I went to prom with my best friend who went to an all boy school. i love him to death but if u go to a school with only one sex u can basically only dance with ur date cuz otherwise ur hitting on someone’s boy or girl friend. haha
    
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2. riese (member)
  March 12, 2010 at 9:46 pm Permalink Reply
  
  mine too!
  
  buttttt i don’t know if i would’ve even had the idea to put together this gallery if i hadn’t known that my g/f took her girlfriend to prom in high school in 2003 and surely she couldn’t be the only one. so there ya go, magical exes.
  
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Brit
March 12, 2010 at 12:05 am Permalink Reply

Everyone is so cute! I just watched the Telephone video! I have a lot of things to say about it! Hi!

Also I went to prom with my best guy friend. It would have been sooo not okay for a same sex couple to go. Seriously, a couple of years before, my school was going to refuse to sell tickets to an interracial couple. Ridiculous.

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Dina
March 12, 2010 at 12:56 am Permalink Reply

I had a boyfriend throughout high school, so all my dance photos are of me and him. My girlfriend went to some other chick’s prom as her date, but she doesn’t have any pics! DAMMIT

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taylahh (member)
March 12, 2010 at 1:40 am Permalink Reply Report user

These photos should give every girl that’s too afraid to ask the girl of her dreams to prom some confidence.

I only went to my junior prom and I ended going with my best guy friend (straight, unfortunately) only because I was mad at my girlfriend at the time. Very stupid reason, I know, and now I don’t have any cute pictures to show for it.

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Brit
March 12, 2010 at 1:52 am Permalink Reply

Yeah the next Autostraddle party should maybe be prom-themed for all of us poor who never had a chance.

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1. Brit
  March 12, 2010 at 1:54 am Permalink Reply
  
  *poor girls
  
  Not “poor” like Kelly Kapowski, who had to have “Zack and Kelly’s Prom” outside the real prom because her dad didn’t have enough money to buy her a dress.
  
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bizzle
March 12, 2010 at 3:58 am Permalink Reply

every one of these photos are adorable!

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RachelwasHere (member)
March 12, 2010 at 4:27 am Permalink Reply Report user

This photo gallery is definitely inspiring a Mean Girls moment:
“I mean, I think everybody looks like royalty tonight.”

Awesome.

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Yewtree
March 12, 2010 at 6:40 am Permalink Reply

Aww the photos are lovely! Well done to all involved.

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stars (member)
March 12, 2010 at 8:13 am Permalink Reply Report user

I SEE MY FRIEND. That makes me smile. These are awesome pictures!

I went to about three balls at highschool. First two I went with male friends of mine, leaver’s ball I went by myself! And got to awkwardly dance with my Dad and shake the bishop’s hand. Yay catholic girls school!

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a;ex (member)
March 12, 2010 at 10:29 am Permalink Reply

Oh my god, this gallery is adorable explosion. It’s making my heart swell. You guys are so cute — thanks for sending and keep ‘em coming!

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sara m (member)
March 12, 2010 at 10:48 am Permalink Reply Report user

these pictures are making me so happy! I went to prom with a gay guy…this makes me want to dig through my mom’s photo albums to find the pic…hold please

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QueerSilver
March 12, 2010 at 11:12 am Permalink Reply

We didn’t have a prom or any fancy ball. Coupling is not exactly encouraged (conservative asexual Buddhist much?) but I would’ve asked a girl out or went with a really close guy friend (who’s now queer too).

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rocketdyke
March 12, 2010 at 11:33 am Permalink Reply

i have to scan mine in – from 1993! luckily, by then, any embarrassing hair cuts were in the past. i was particularly proud in my tux and tails, though, because although my date was straight, she was the cutest cheerleader in the school, and she turned down all her other offers to the prom and told all the football players she was going with me! this is one of the nicer memories i have of high school.

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1. riese (member)
  March 15, 2010 at 12:57 pm Permalink Reply
  
  ROCKETDYKE!
  
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Anon
March 12, 2010 at 12:14 pm Permalink Reply

this makes me smile. mad congrats to all the self-aware and willing to be out high school (or college for some) people. some of us needed to be hit over the head later in life to come to our senses.

though I can join the “brought a guy who later revealed himself to be gay” club. he may or may not have been aware he was gay at the time–I don’t know.

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Lissi (member)
March 12, 2010 at 12:36 pm Permalink Reply Report user

OMG OMG OMG

Bethlehem, PA!
(I’m from there!)

What school were you guys at?

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1. kelsey
  March 12, 2010 at 7:06 pm Permalink Reply
  
  UM ME TOO!
  
  well, sorta. right nearby.
  
  seriously what school.
  
  i went to salisbury which was teensy tiny and in atown.
  
  Stalkers, GO!
  
  Lehigh Valley REPRESENT.
  
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  1. Lissi (member)
    March 12, 2010 at 7:22 pm Permalink Reply Report user
    
    OMG
    I’m from south bethlehem! we only have fountain hill between us!
    
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    1. kelsey
      March 12, 2010 at 7:25 pm Permalink Reply
      
      it’s a pretty big hill. but shs is like, right there. I actually live in ny now but was just home this past weekend! what do you think of SANDS.OMG.
      
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      1. Lissi (member)
        March 13, 2010 at 11:29 am Permalink Reply Report user
        
        i am leaving for bethlehem in t-minus an hour and a half!
        
        SANDS SUCK BALLS!
        
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        Samara
        March 13, 2010 at 4:30 pm Permalink Reply
        
        We both went to the Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Performing Arts on Broad Street, Bethlehem. it was pretty homosexual.
        
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        Samara
        March 13, 2010 at 4:33 pm Permalink
        
        wow, that is definitely not a picture of me.
        
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2. Kass
  March 13, 2010 at 4:35 pm Permalink Reply
  
  ohhh LVPA.
  One year both the King and Prince were gay, so we had…three prom queens.
  
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Ale
March 12, 2010 at 2:57 pm Permalink Reply

thanks for that!
it’s adorable!

all of you are adorable!!!

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Jamie (member)
March 12, 2010 at 4:54 pm Permalink Reply Report user

this is so awesomely cute guys

i never went to prom…i kidnapped my ex gf drove down to key west [from miami] and spend the weekend down there [lol down there, get it ...its a pun!]

it was fun but now i kinda regret it cause that whole relationship was effed up by her ex bf….but whatever, i digress

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Dina
March 12, 2010 at 5:11 pm Permalink Reply

OMG Monica’s 80s prom photo is the best thing ever!

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Rachel B (member)
March 12, 2010 at 5:35 pm Permalink Reply Report user

What a beautiful gallery. These pictures warm my heart so much that it’s melting. <3

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Sam
March 12, 2010 at 6:40 pm Permalink Reply

I just submitted mine. woooo

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Robin
March 12, 2010 at 6:57 pm Permalink Reply

Alex and her blue eyeshadow FTW

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1. carlytron
  March 15, 2010 at 12:49 pm Permalink Reply
  
  THIS.
  
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kelsey
March 12, 2010 at 7:04 pm Permalink Reply

Wow. You ladies have my utmost respect. If I could do things all over again, this is how I would have done it – out and looking fabulous.

Seriously, you are all amazing and brave little gaysoldiers (is that legal yet?) for the cause of love/highschool.

I’m very proud of each and every one of you! I feel like your mom.

Bye honey!

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kelsey
March 12, 2010 at 7:09 pm Permalink Reply

also,

STOP IT GUYS CUTESPLOSION

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Laneia (member)
March 12, 2010 at 7:22 pm Permalink Reply

waaaaah everyone is so cute! YOU ARE ALL SO FREAKIN’ CUTE.

would you just LOOK at how freakin’ cute you all are?!
<3

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debjordan
March 12, 2010 at 7:39 pm Permalink Reply

I love them all. So cute. Monica from 1985! How cool are (were) you! Your girlfriend looks(ed)like a Quinn!!!!!!!!!!

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hachiemachie
March 12, 2010 at 7:41 pm Permalink Reply

The adorableness of this gallery totally un-Grinchifies my cold, cold heart.

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Missy (member)
March 12, 2010 at 7:51 pm Permalink Reply Report user

Beautiful pics, people! Y’all give me hope.

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Drew
March 12, 2010 at 8:31 pm Permalink Reply

My ex submitted a photo of us from her prom, which I went to as a female in a tux. I went to a wedding at my church immediately before her prom in that tux and the next week was asked to no longer be a prominent member in the church. Everyone deserves a prom!

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kellyw516 (member)
March 12, 2010 at 8:35 pm Permalink Reply Report user

This is the coolest post ever. The pictures are great. You girls rock.

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Laneia (member)
March 12, 2010 at 8:57 pm Permalink Reply

what about the couple – Alex & Gabi – who went together BOTH YEARS.

omggg <3

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1. Lily
  March 12, 2010 at 10:51 pm Permalink Reply
  
  Ah I know! I <3 them so so much!
  
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  1. marlene. (member)
    March 13, 2010 at 3:07 am Permalink Reply Report user
    
    LOOK HOW PERFECTLY COORDINATED THEY ARE. so adorable.
    
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Halie
March 12, 2010 at 9:24 pm Permalink Reply

Gosh, I don’t have any pics (and /technically/ didn’t go with this girl), but one of my girl-friends who is openly gay wore me on her arm the entire evening. We had a blast!

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wcollins2332 (member)
March 12, 2010 at 9:39 pm Permalink Reply Report user

I went to three proms. First one with my bf at the time in this stupid pink dress, next on with my best friend in a dress, and the last one with my future gf in a tux. Gotta say, that last one was the best.

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Badfluffy
March 12, 2010 at 10:57 pm Permalink Reply

You go girls! Love this gallery! So a bunch of white trash morons lost an occasion to get drunk and act stupid… maybe there won’t be less unwanted kids born next year… Darwinism at work!

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Jensen
March 12, 2010 at 11:01 pm Permalink Reply

Great job Autostraddle! What a wonderful, visual idea. We join you in hoping to see Constance and her date here next year!

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Aleah
March 13, 2010 at 12:39 am Permalink Reply

plz come post ur pics in our group.. we are supporting the girl from Fulton mississippi that wanted to wear a tux and take her gf from to prom.. plz come show ur support so she can see this wasn’t an outlandish request!!..

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Lavienrose
March 13, 2010 at 1:12 am Permalink Reply

the pic my g/f submitted yesterday hasnt been uploaded! how can we be sure that you got it?

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1. riese (member)
  March 13, 2010 at 11:06 am Permalink Reply
  
  if it was submitted and it hasn’t been uploaded, then we didn’t get it ’cause i think we are totally caught up except for one we just got. so send again! autostraddle at gmail dot com!
  
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  1. lavienrose (member)
    March 13, 2010 at 11:59 am Permalink Reply Report user
    
    now its there! thanks!
    
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Mo
March 13, 2010 at 11:49 am Permalink Reply

Could I be more jealous of these ladies? I went with my best guy friend (not gay, surprisingly) from another school. We did go in a hearse, though. It had skull lock buttons and was pretty excellent.
You are all so cute. Way to work it and give me hope all at the same time.

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imhedge (member)
March 13, 2010 at 4:09 pm Permalink Reply Report user

photo #23 was taken in 2006, not 2007. sorry, shan.

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1. riese (member)
  March 16, 2010 at 8:09 pm Permalink Reply
  
  is it fixed now? i am getting properly confused
  
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Emily (member)
March 13, 2010 at 9:48 pm Permalink Reply Report user

alright, i am so late to the party on this, but this is amazing! everyone looks so cute and happy.

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Kay
March 13, 2010 at 11:16 pm Permalink Reply

My school is in conservative Utah and I was kind of worried, but on Thursday the principal totally ok’d all LGBT couples for our Senior Ball! I’m so excited to have my photo up there with all of you lovely ladies

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Julie
March 13, 2010 at 11:26 pm Permalink Reply

CUTESPLLLLOOOOOSION X 10 MILLION

I’m so glad I got to be a part of this! (I’m Julie from the pic of ‘Julie & Allie’ from Denver, CO in front of the fountain)

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TouchTheStars (member)
March 13, 2010 at 11:40 pm Permalink Reply Report user

I’m bawling. All of your beautiful photos give me so much hope for our generation of Lesbian/Bi girls. It makes me feel so much emotion to know that I truly am NOT the only girl whos had to struggle with liking girls in high school. There arn’t any out people in my school, but your photos have given me a reason to want to change that.

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1. Morgan
  March 14, 2010 at 1:26 pm Permalink Reply
  
  awww, girl, you can do it!
  
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2. RachelwasHere (member)
  March 16, 2010 at 1:50 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  “Be the change you want to see in the world.”
  
  Good luck!
  
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softestbullet
March 14, 2010 at 12:25 am Permalink Reply

These pictures make me so happy!

At my prom, my female best friend, who I was in love with, was dating our mutual male friend, who later came out as gay and who had super religious parents who didn’t approve of dating, so to fool them all three of us went “as a group of friends.”

…Whew.

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Morgan
March 14, 2010 at 11:45 am Permalink Reply

Everyone is so cute! This gallery is fantastic.

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Carmen (member)
March 14, 2010 at 3:07 pm Permalink Reply Report user

Whenever I need a happy break from my thesis I come to check these pictures out. You are all so wonderfully beautiful. Autostraddle is like chicken soup for the soul.

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1. TouchTheStars (member)
  March 14, 2010 at 3:09 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  Aha! Same! This website is such a great break from my research paper >:D
  
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2. origamic_heart (member)
  March 16, 2010 at 10:05 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  *Autostraddle is like chicken soup for the soul*
  hahaha love that!
  
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Christine
March 14, 2010 at 10:54 pm Permalink Reply

I love the 1985 pic (as well as all of the others obvs)!

P.S I’m noticing alot of Taylor Swift faces, is that the new default? It’s quite lols.

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Lily
March 15, 2010 at 12:10 am Permalink Reply

LOVE the pic from 1993!!!!

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missmaggie
March 15, 2010 at 1:37 pm Permalink Reply

This really made me smile. Thank you!

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Mrs. Chili
March 15, 2010 at 2:46 pm Permalink Reply

This is fantastic! Thanks for putting this together!

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JentheJew (member)
March 15, 2010 at 3:44 pm Permalink Reply Report user

I wish that I had been out in high school so badly! It’s among my greatest regrets that I didn’t come out WAY earlier in life, since I knew I was gay when I was a fetus.

Seize the day!

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Shannon
March 15, 2010 at 3:57 pm Permalink Reply

Aww! You just really made my day. Perhaps my whole week. Thanks!

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RE - A BadGalSays
March 15, 2010 at 4:28 pm Permalink Reply

You Go Girls ! all looking sweet and rockin that prom.
this site is the bomb so I subscribed.

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LtFlippy
March 15, 2010 at 6:11 pm Permalink Reply

I am such a fan of this! SUCH A FAN. This is dangerously cute though – there should be a warning! jeeze!

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Jenna
March 15, 2010 at 9:33 pm Permalink Reply

i just sent in my picture recently about 10 min ago.. wow. i cant believe that school!

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Michelle Zink
March 15, 2010 at 10:34 pm Permalink Reply

You are all beautiful, amazing, strong young women!

Go, you!
<3

MZ

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Greta
March 15, 2010 at 10:39 pm Permalink Reply

This gallery is amazing and everyone looks awesome. Thanks for sharing it with us

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misskmc13 (member)
March 16, 2010 at 7:46 am Permalink Reply Report user

I’m so happy to see so many lesbians from New Hampshire, woo represent!

Although I went with my best friend who I was totally in love with to my prom, I wasn’t out so it sadly doesn’t count… But this gallery is so amazing, keep it up!

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Em
March 16, 2010 at 8:07 am Permalink Reply

Absolute gorgeous photos! Just seeing all the joy in these snaps makes me want to do a little dance, but also makes my heart break a little more for Constance. I hope she, and girls like her everywhere, get the chance to enjoy a night like this, wearing whatever they want and going with whoever they want.

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Apple
March 16, 2010 at 8:08 am Permalink Reply

ARGH THIS IS SO CUTE I MIGHT DIE.

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1. Missy (member)
  March 16, 2010 at 10:33 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  No! LIVE! Live and DANCE!
  *See photo references above*
  
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Joel
March 16, 2010 at 10:54 am Permalink Reply

I’m a straight guy who didn’t even go to my prom. As a site, though, this is genius. I’m totally and utterly for gay/lesbian equal rights, and sites like this send an awesome message for the cause.

Y’all rock. ‘Nuff said.

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John
March 16, 2010 at 12:36 pm Permalink Reply

I can’t stop smiling.

It’s easy to look at the screaming half of America and think it will be downhill from here.

Then you look at such an inspiring collection of this generation here and you know they will win.

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allison
March 16, 2010 at 2:39 pm Permalink Reply

baaaaaah tracy & cat baaaaaaah. my adorable friends

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wiggleroom
March 16, 2010 at 2:53 pm Permalink Reply

This is so great! Well done to you all, you’re so inspirational and cute.

But I do have to say that I think the two ladies from Rhode Island have broken through some sort of cuteness Event Horizon and synthesized a new supermassive industrial-strength weapons-grade isotope of pure cute…

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Nariya
March 16, 2010 at 4:04 pm Permalink Reply

Love it. I hope Constance sees this; there’s a lot of hate out there but this just shows how much love there is too.

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J
March 16, 2010 at 6:32 pm Permalink Reply

These are super duper chock-a-block full-on awesome.

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MoZeu
March 16, 2010 at 6:43 pm Permalink Reply

Oh my God, the gals from San Antonio are GORGEOUS!

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1. riese (member)
  March 16, 2010 at 8:10 pm Permalink Reply
  
  haha and the one in the purple dress is now dating our lovely autostraddle writer katrina! exes ftw!
  
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origamic_heart (member)
March 16, 2010 at 10:01 pm Permalink Reply Report user

Awesome gallery!! Very cool that it keeps increasing.
You guys are all so cute!

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dogmamaonly
March 16, 2010 at 10:02 pm Permalink Reply

Everybody is so cute!

I went to my prom by myself. :/

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David
March 16, 2010 at 10:35 pm Permalink Reply

Respect. I love how adorable everyone looks.

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Douglas Moran
March 16, 2010 at 11:12 pm Permalink Reply

See, this is something I’ve never understood about homophobia, or people wanting to deny equal marriage rights to gay and lesbian couples. Look at those pictures. Look at how friggin’ *happy* so many of those couples are (the ones not acting like goofy teenagers, anyway). *Why* would anyone want to deny someone that happiness? Why? I just don’t get it.

And for the record, I’m a flabby, middle-aged, heterosexual white dude. Just so’s you know. (Now, we *did* have gays and lesbians in our wedding party . . . maybe I should send in a picture?)

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Rupert the Bear
March 16, 2010 at 11:30 pm Permalink Reply

Looking at all these photos, I’m struck by the clear abundance of love, joy, friendship, fun, and yes some fab rags too. I wish the folks running Itawamba school district could get beyond being freaked, and maybe in these photos people will be reminded that y’all are/were their childrens’ classmates and friends and are … yunno … PEOPLE!

So fun, yes! Solidarity, yes! But I also hope this opens some eyes.

I hope that when my daughters (eventually) go to prom, they’ll have the freedom to go with whomever they want.

Seriously, you all look FABULOUS…

Much love, be happy, take care,

Ru (and thanks for listening to an old straight guy)

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1. Laneia (member)
  March 16, 2010 at 11:39 pm Permalink Reply
  
  i love this so much! thank you, rupert. lucky daughters <3
  
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2. a;ex (member)
  March 18, 2010 at 11:56 pm Permalink Reply
  
  Oh my god I can’t handle these awesome, heartwarming posts from these straight dudes! You guys give me hope for the future. I love you all.
  
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jessica
March 17, 2010 at 4:33 am Permalink Reply

Nitpicky request:
For photo #53, could the order of the names be switched?

I’m sure I sent it in as “Emma and Jessica,” but I am Jessica, and I am on the left. Hahaha. Thank you.

Emma and I are honored to have our picture among all the rest.

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1. riese (member)
  March 17, 2010 at 10:51 am Permalink Reply
  
  the names aren’t captioned in any particular order or meant to correspond with the order the people appear in the photograph. i can change that for you though, not a big deal, but just fyi.
  
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Edilma (member)
March 17, 2010 at 10:17 pm Permalink Reply Report user

Awww I love this SO MUCH!!!
We don’t really have prom on this part of the world but I wish I knew I was gay in high school
Thank you for sharing your pics.

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Rihanna
March 18, 2010 at 4:20 am Permalink Reply

So I have a picture of my girlfriend and I after graduation at the senior party, it probably doesn’t count but we were formally dressed up UNDER our grad robes.

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Dentyne
March 18, 2010 at 5:17 am Permalink Reply

Haha best caption, ever! “Haylee (president of the high school’s GSA) & Katie (the high school principal’s daughter).”

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snub
March 18, 2010 at 6:16 am Permalink Reply

in this city everybody is also called “miss jackson”, might be a reason for that stubborn inacceptable homophobia. also, i’m suggesting to host the “life ball” there, next year. in a special edition. http://www.lifeball.org/

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thegirlsare
March 19, 2010 at 8:28 am Permalink Reply

I love this. I love I love I love.

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MMJ
March 19, 2010 at 11:48 pm Permalink Reply

The cuteness and sheer joy in those pics is both overwhelming and incredibly inspiring. Yay for everyone above! I totally support that sort of happiness and freedom and courage.

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Stephanie
March 21, 2010 at 9:17 am Permalink Reply

Back in high school you could not have dragged me kicking and screaming to a school dance – my friends tried, but it’s just not my scene. Hell, I still don’t like clubs and the likes, so I probably wouldn’t go even now. Still, I’m relenting on some of my prom disapproval just this once because, hey, it’s hard to say no to a bunch of young women who look like they’re having such fun! Seriously, after reading the recent press releases, it’s gives me hope seeing there are schools were the prom is meant for students to come dance and hang out and not as a way to showcase old fashion “values” about boys bringing their future high school sweethearts (that goes for both the schools that won’t let students go with same sex dates and – just as disgusting – the schools that don’t even sell single’s tickets but force people to “pair up”. Because nothing is better than telling our children that they’re not allowed to go out to what’s made out as the biggest night of their high school lives unless they’re straight and dating – everyone else is apparently just a freak. Great educational values right there.)

Also, the nice looking suit wearing girl in the first pic (Kassie & Samara) has got to have one of the hottest suits I’ve ever seen (not a big fan of the full out formal tuxedo, but loving this suit look) PLUS I’m just jealous of her hair and wish I could pull it off. Seconds later I felt bad about considering a teenager cute and being in anyway jealous of her consider I should be a little too old for this behavior.

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stephanie
March 23, 2010 at 2:05 pm Permalink Reply

I don’t have any pictures nor did I ever take a girl but i totally support this cause. keep it up ladies, make them see what foolish things they are doing

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karmen d'castro
March 24, 2010 at 6:51 pm Permalink Reply

Dear Alex,
OH MY GOD!!! AH! A…MAZING.

Warm Regards,
Stef/Karmen

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Johanna
March 29, 2010 at 8:18 am Permalink Reply

Sent my photos in last week – are you still posting them?

I will look at this gallery every time I get down about the state of the queer world (DADT, Prop H8,etc.) It makes me smile. Thanks so much for doing this.

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Steph
March 29, 2010 at 10:18 pm Permalink Reply

It’s so wonderful seeing all these pictures, even in light of the recent news about the two young women in Mississippi denied the right to attend theirs. My prom was 21 years ago and I didn’t attend – I couldn’t even be out of the closet. I would have, if I could have – and you girls (and guys) that want to, or are able to, please have extra fun for those of us that didn’t get the chance. And good luck and best wishes for an amazing future. It’s a different world, only because we make it.

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Emily
April 4, 2010 at 9:13 pm Permalink Reply

Hi! This is an amazing collection of photos, and very similar to what I am intending to start on this blog – http://fuckyeahlgbtqprom.tumblr.com/. I would like to start a collection of photos that can be constantly developing. If any of you are able to submit photos, it would be really appreciated!

This tumblog is mostly a response to the Constance McMillen bullshit (http://tiny.cc/lwcx7),but we also want to recognize that lots of queer people are silenced
and unable to be public about their sexuality. And by sending in your pictures, we’ll start to break those chains of silence.

lgbtq.prom@gmail.com

Please forward widely!

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biarosel (member)
April 5, 2010 at 5:57 am Permalink Reply Report user

I went to a very christian high school… I wonder if I had worn a tux what the would have done haha… pretty sure taking a girl would have been a huge no-no though. We only had one formal at the very end of high school though, and I dropped out before then, so never went.

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Miss Discipline
April 6, 2010 at 4:06 pm Permalink Reply

I’m straight but support your rights 100% Love the pix.

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Migs
April 6, 2010 at 9:07 pm Permalink Reply

My high school was too conservative for my ex and I to feel comfortable going to prom. But I did take her to ‘pride prom’ in college! It was a blast

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monica
April 7, 2010 at 3:19 am Permalink Reply

holy shit. ariel schrag. in her comic she does a drawing of this photo and it looks amazingly the same. i die!

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1. Cass
  November 10, 2010 at 9:41 pm Permalink Reply
  
  I’m late to this party but I have to second that comment! That photo (actually all of them) made me grin from ear to ear. The year’s got to be 1997 though, not 2007.
  
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Jay
May 20, 2010 at 12:17 am Permalink Reply

Prom on Friday, uploading pics on Saturday!

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Viki
June 27, 2010 at 7:55 am Permalink Reply

So many smallminded people out there who are supposed to be educating us for our future in the Real World. They should have shut down the administration of the school, rather than stopping the Prom.

Viki.
Viktoria Michaelis

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viki
September 25, 2010 at 6:52 am Permalink Reply

I really love this album. it’s so sweet, ants might feast on it

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jacquie (member)
July 13, 2011 at 3:45 pm Permalink Reply Report user

<3 number 38. so so much. i want to be that hair. yes, the big hair. *sigh*

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NicoSuave
January 28, 2012 at 4:12 pm Permalink Reply

Is it weird that I’m a straight boy who wants to take a straight girl to prom, but I would secretly want my date to wear a tuxedo? I’ve always had a thing for a girl in a tux, but I don’t know a lot of single straight girls in my school that I like who would actually go along with that. Not to mention I’ve never been on a date before. Any advice?

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