'Barbie is a Lesbian' shirt case settled

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NEW YORK (AP) - An openly gay teenager received a $30,000 settlement from the city over her suspension for wearing a ``Barbie is a Lesbian'' T-shirt to school, her attorney announced Thursday.

Natalie Young, now 15 and in high school, wore the shirt to middle school in April 2002, leading school officials to send her home for the day despite the absence of any official dress code.

The teen said the settlement should make life easier on other openly gay schoolchildren: ``I think they should feel more comfortable about who they are.''

Young was pulled from class by the school principal and ordered to sit in an office until she changed the shirt. When she refused, she was suspended for the day.
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More:http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3931560,00.html

[slinkerwink]

1. good for her!

:toast:

[DrBB]

2. Principal sez "Someone has to stand up for America's

...favorite fashion doll. If anyone can just go around claiming that an all-American, completely dyed-in-the-wool heterosexual doll like Barbie is queer, then the terrorists have already won!"*

*Fabricated quotation. Actual principal quotation may differ.

[Ilsa]

3. This amazes me.

Schools have all kinds of problems, but they choose to pick on a girl over her t-shirt?

Good for her.