Tuxedo injunction ends.

It's too late for former Fleming Island High School student Kelli Davis of Jacksonville, Fla., but thanks to her tenacity, other lesbian students won't be turned away when they refuse to wear a frilly "scoop neck drape" in their yearbook photo. Earlier this year Davis, then a senior, wrote an essay for GenQ about her school superintendent's refusal to allow a photo of her wearing a tuxedo in the yearbook. With the help of Equality Florida and the National Center for Lesbian Rights, Davis threatened a lawsuit, and in mid September the school settled by changing its policies to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

"I'm just relieved it's over and that no other student in Clay County will have to go through the embarrassment, humiliation, and frustration I went through," said Davis, who is now attending the University of South Florida. "[And] I hope the new policies will help the faculty understand it's their responsibility to intervene when kids are being picked on because they're gay or because they don't meet society's stereotype of how they are supposed to look or act."