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.
Note: All of these photos used to have captions with the year, the location, and the girls in the photograph indicated. However when our photo galleries were transferred when we switched the plug-in we use for galleries in March 2013, the captions apparently weren’t transferred. We are looking into why this happened and if there’s any way to fix it.
- Woodbridge, 2008
- New Hampshire, 2003
- Victoria, British Columbia, 2009
- Wisconsin, 2008
- Virginia, 2009
- Virginia, 2008
- Boston, 2008
- Tracy and Cat, Missouri, 2009
- Tovah and Cynthia, Manchester, New Hampshire, 2008
- Texas, 2008
- Taylor and Katie, Queer Prom, Oregon, 2010
- Tabitha and Leah, Houghton College Banquet, 2006
- Susie and Laura, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2009
- Prom, St. Louis, Missouri, 2007
- Springfield, Missouri, 2007
- South Hadley, Massachusetts, 2009
- South Carolina, 2008
- Sorority Formal, Tennessee, 2010
- Seattle, Washington, 2006
- Sara and Caroline, Ridgefield, Connecticut, 2007
- Yonkers, 2008
- San Francisco, 2004
- Martha and Ashley, Eugene, Oregon, 2009
- Rhode Island, 2010
- Rachel
- Rochester, 2006
- Prom King
- Prom, 2009
- Pennsylvania, 2009
- Haylee and Katie, Palm Desert, California, 2006
- Palm Beach, 2008
- Winter Formal
- Kati and Maggie, Painesville, Ohio, 2006
- Ontario, Canada, 2009
- Ohio, 2009
- NYC, 2009
- Prom, New Jersey
- New Hampshire, 2009
- Natalie and Sarah, Minnesota
- Murray County, Georgia, 2007
- Missouri, 2006
- Michigan, 2005
- Massachusetts, 2009
- 2008
- Massachusetts, 1994
- Maryland, 2008
- Maggie and Kati, Homecoming, Ohio, 2006
- Madison, Wisconsin, 2005
- Lynne and Sarah, Washington, DC, 2007
- Lynchburg, Virginia, 2008
- Little Rock, Arkansas, 2008
- Lindsay and Judith, Raleigh, North Carolina, 2003
- Liesbeth and Annelies
- Leesha and Clare, Santa Cruz, California, 2009
- Lauren, 2009
- Laurah and Sara, Vermont
- Fish Out of Water
- Ktana and Yoti, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2009
- KT and Lisa, Chicago, 2008
- Kentucky, 2008
- Kansas City, 1985
- Johanna and Marion, Senior Prom, Newtown, Pennsylvania, 2000
- Jess and Kristen, Emu Formal, 2010
- Indiana, 2009
- Idaho, 2007
- Hannah
- Kelsey and Jennifer, Grants Pass, Oregon, 2009
- 1993
- Florida, 2009
- Florida, 2005
- Eugene, Oregon
- Junior Prom, Ephrata, Pennsylvania, 2000
- 2009
- Emma and Jessica, Prom
- Emily and Taylor, Jacksonville, Florida, 2007
- Em and Lynz, Decatur, Georgia, 2008
- Edmonton, Canada, 2007
- 2009
- Connecticut, 2007
- Colorado, 2006
- Chicago, 2009
- Chicago, 2009
- Chicago, 2006
- Charlene and Gina, Reno, Nevada, 2009
- Brie and Megan, Hampton Bays High Prom
- Anna and Emily, Birmingham, Alabama, 2007
- Berkeley, California, 2008
- Belleville, New Jersey, 2009
- Belgium, 2009
- Bakersfield, California, 1994
- Australia, 2008
- Austin, Texas, 2009
- Arizona
- Ariel, Prom, Berkeley, 1997
- Alex and Rachel, Asheville, North Carolina, 2001
- Alex, Long Island
- Alex and Erica, Nashville, Tennessee
- Winter Formal, Alabama, 2006
- Adele and Eb, Homecoming, Vancouver, 1999
- Prom, Houston, Texas, 2008
- Senior Prom, St. Louis, Missouri, 2007
- Law School Prom, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2007
- Connecticut, 2006
These are super duper chock-a-block full-on awesome.
Oh my God, the gals from San Antonio are GORGEOUS!
haha and the one in the purple dress is now dating our lovely autostraddle writer katrina! exes ftw!
Awesome gallery!! Very cool that it keeps increasing.
You guys are all so cute!
Everybody is so cute!
I went to my prom by myself. :/
Respect. I love how adorable everyone looks.
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?)
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)
i love this so much! thank you, rupert. lucky daughters <3
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.
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.
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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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 :D
Thank you for sharing your pics.
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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.
Haha best caption, ever! “Haylee (president of the high school’s GSA) & Katie (the high school principal’s daughter).”
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/
I love this. I love I love I love.
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.
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.
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 :)
Dear Alex,
OH MY GOD!!! AH! A…MAZING.
Warm Regards,
Stef/Karmen
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.
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. :)
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!
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.
I’m straight but support your rights 100% Love the pix.
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
holy shit. ariel schrag. in her comic she does a drawing of this photo and it looks amazingly the same. i die!
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.
Prom on Friday, uploading pics on Saturday!
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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
I really love this album. it’s so sweet, ants might feast on it
<3 number 38. so so much. i want to be that hair. yes, the big hair. *sigh*
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?
I came out when I was 20 so I am dying of jealousy right now looking at these pics. These women are sooo cool and amazing! \m/
2010 was my final year! I took my then girlfriend to mine, and under duress wore a dress, but the next year, at her final year I got to rock a suit. These photos bring back so many memories!
I didn’t go to my senior prom with a lesbian but later in the night when my date started paying more attention to his friends than me a lesbian classmate filled his place. My first lesbian experience happened that night and he went home alone.
These photos are so cute!
What a happy place! Just ‘shared’ this page with my daughter to encourage her to ask her GF to the year-end senior formal. As a proud dad, I’d love to see that awesome couple’s smiles join the others on this web page.
Holy, forgot about this completely. Ahh failed relationship immortalized on Autostraddle…