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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Homo Re: Queen For a Day

Posted by Eli Sanders on Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:17 PM

Heartwarming, definitely, but something similar happened almost exactly eight years ago—and not in homo-filled Los Angeles, but up in tiny Ferndale, Wa., near the border with Canada.

FERNDALE, Whatcom County - People in this town are annoyed with Krystal Bennett. It's not because she's a lesbian, they say, but because she demeaned a time-honored high-school tradition.

What happened is this: On April 28, at the Ferndale High School senior prom, Bennett was voted prom king.

I remember this not just because I ended up interviewing the lesbian prom king, but because later that summer I watched the very sweet sight of Krystal Bennett—who had, in the intervening months, become a target of Fred Phelps—marching happily in Seattle's gay pride parade.

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In FERNDALE? Wow... now that is impressive.

Posted by wench on May 28, 2009 at 1:26 PM

EXACTLY? If it was April 28th 2000 then you're off by a month

Posted by pragmatic on May 28, 2009 at 1:37 PM

2001 I mean

Posted by pragmatic on May 28, 2009 at 1:38 PM

Wow, I'm not sure what's more surprising. The fact that a small town would vote in a lesbian prom queen, or the fact that Eli Sanders wrote for the Seattle Times.

Was that hell? I can't get through their comment boards without feeling livid.

Posted by BombasticMO

on May 28, 2009 at 10:15 PM

it would do the people of ferndale a world of good to develop a sense of play. it's not good for the heart to take yourselves so fucking seriously, folks.

Posted by ellarosa on May 29, 2009 at 10:17 AM