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 frill n. 1. A ruffled, gathered, or pleated border or projection, such as a fabric edge used to trim clothing or a curled paper strip for decorating the end of the bone of a piece of meat. 2. "scoop neck drape drape v. To cover, dress, or hang with or as if with cloth in loose folds. n. A cloth arranged over a patient's body during an examination or treatment or during surgery, designed to provide a sterile field around the area. " 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 The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) is a non-profit, public interest law firm that litigates precedent-setting cases at the trial and appellate court levels, advocates for equitable public policies affecting the LGBT community, provides free legal assistance to LGBT , Davis threatened a lawsuit, and in mid September the school settled by changing its policies to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation sexual orientation n. The direction of one's sexual interest toward members of the same, opposite, or both sexes, especially a direction seen to be dictated by physiologic rather than sociologic forces. . "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." |
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