School Suspends Boy For Wearing Dress To Prom

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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c.../05/11/national/a161125D68.DTL&type=printable

Lake Geneva, Wis.

A high school senior who thought it would be funny to wear a dress to his prom was ticketed $249 for disorderly conduct, suspended for three days and banned from his last track meet.

School district administrator Jim Gottinger said the discipline was for more than just the dress, noting Kerry Lofy, 18, was dancing in a sexually provocative manner at the prom, according to a police report.

Lofy doubts that was the real reason he was disciplined Monday.

"The whole night was that kind of dancing. They can't single me out and say, 'Oh it was you, it was only you,'" he said. "I think it's over the dress."

Lofy said Lake Geneva Badger High had no problem letting him go to Saturday's prom with another male, but that school officials drew the line at his dress.

"I thought it would be more appropriate for there to be one person dressed like a girl and a person dressed like a guy, than for there to be two guys to go," said Lofy, a member of the school's track, ski, powerlifting and soccer teams.

Also, he thought people would find it funny to see a 6-foot, 185-pound male in a black, stretchy, spaghetti-strap dress.

When Lofy showed up in the dress, a blond wig, open-toed platform sandals, blue earrings and a necklace, teachers turned him away. He said he showed up later with a tan-and-black plaid leisure suit over the dress, went inside and whipped off the suit during a dance-off. A security guard escorted him out, he said.

Lofy said when he went to school Monday, the school liaison police officer issued the disorderly conduct ticket.

"They thought I was mocking the school," he said.
 
So are the girls in skimpy low cut dresses being open about their sexuality too? I wonder how open he was allowed to be/felt uncomfortable being during all his years in high school. If he can't be that way for one lousy night after HS is essentially over, that's pretty damn sad. Maybe that had nothing to do w/ wearing a dress, it doesn't sound like it did the way he explained it.

I say rock on dude :wink: some guys look great in dresses too
 
nbcrusader said:
Is this kid screaming for attention or what.....

Yeah. but it's funny actually, for every kid screaming for attention there's usually a whole institution catering to their needs. :lol:
 
BonoVoxSupastar said:


Yeah because individuality is so overrated.

but there are other ways of making a statement than that. maybe by just acting normal and dressing proper, he could have shown his classmates that homosexuals can fit in with the rest of society.
 
it's high school, for pete's sake. we used to do silly stuff like this on occasion when we were 17, too. it's probably the only time in your life you can act up, be over the top, just for fun.
 
mikal said:


but there are other ways of making a statement than that. maybe by just acting normal and dressing proper, he could have shown his classmates that homosexuals can fit in with the rest of society.

"Normal"? The same could be said about heterosexuals. I knew a guy who wore a kilt to his prom(he wasn't Scottish), girls who danced sexually, and others who showed up drunk and ended up flashing the rest of the senior class. This was over 12 years ago and not one was suspended, fined, or anything else. But I guess it helps that they were all straight.
 
BonoVoxSupastar said:

"Normal"?

Exactly, is there such a thing as "normal" in high school? I hated high school , couldn't wait to leave. Sometimes it still feels like certain situations are like high school revisited.

I was a "reject" who never went to my prom, so I have no idea what went on. It was a long time ago too, I'm sure a guy in a dress wouldn't have been accepted.
 
i went to the prom with one of my best girl pals. she didn't have a boy at the time, and my boyfriend was from out of town and was graduating that night, so we decided to be each other's date. we got one of our guy friends to chauffeur us in his grandmother's buick. :lol:

no public nuisance charges were filed.
 
dandy said:
i went to the prom with one of my best girl pals. she didn't have a boy at the time, and my boyfriend was from out of town and was graduating that night, so we decided to be each other's date. we got one of our guy friends to chauffeur us in his grandmother's buick. :lol:

no public nuisance charges were filed.

that's because you're two girls. that's just hot.
 
I think you have to have an IQ of 80 and an antisocial personality disorder to be a school administrator.

Melon
 
Se7en said:
$250 for a dress and some dancing? :eyebrow:

No kidding. That's awfully extreme, I'd say. God, a girl I know got a speeding ticket that was about $80...speeding fines are less than something like this? That's a bit stupid.

Originally posted by dandy
it's high school, for pete's sake. we used to do silly stuff like this on occasion when we were 17, too. it's probably the only time in your life you can act up, be over the top, just for fun.

Exactly. Honestly, these school administrators are from the same generation full of people who, when they were kids, would streak through the halls during senior year (my parents recall a kid doing that at their school) or who would dance in ways that the generation before them saw as "suggestive" and "sexually charged". The guys would wear their hair long. I bet if we went back through those school administrators' pasts, we could find some things just as crazy as what this boy did that they did when they were in school. So do they have any room to be talking?

It's a guy in a dress. It's dancing. You'll live.

Angela
 
this article doesn't specify that the student was gay. reading it, i was under the impression that he did it as a joke. and you know what? it's funny. it's the prom for crying out loud, let the kids blow off a little steam.

i agree with melon. freedom of speech and expression can only be taken so far in schools today. my daughter was recently sent home from school when she wore a t-shirt that read "school sucks." i had to leave my job to go pick her up.

i was told it was "disruptive to the teaching environment." :rolleyes:
 
I actually smoked pot at my high school prom. That's right, we lit up on a balcony on the building we had the prom in. We didn't get in trouble. Of course none of the guys wore a dress........but quite honestly I don't think we would have given a damn if they had. We weren't bored, to say the least.
 
:eek: :shocked:

Didn't you listen to Nancy??

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That's true, it doesn't really specify he's gay

This part "had no problem letting him go to Saturday's prom with another male" I guess made me assume, who knows? I'm way out of touch w/ HS these days, maybe guys do go together.
 
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