Same-sex Couple Wins High School Contest In Landslide

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And the Crown Goes To...

Advocate.com
By Julie Bolcer
Posted June 29, 2009


Voted “best couple” by their senior class at a
South Bronx high school, out new graduates
Victoria Cruz and Deoine Scott made history
and helped to change attitudes.


Mention the South Bronx to marriage equality advocates in New York, and many think of State Sen. Ruben Diaz, Sr., the fiery Pentecostal minister and legislator from the area who vehemently opposes same-sex marriage. Ask young lesbians Victoria (“Vikky”) Cruz and Deoine Scott about that kind of resistance, however, and it barely seems to square with their personal experience as an out couple in an area high school.

Vikky 17, and Deoine, 18, were overwhelmingly voted “best couple” by their peers in the graduating class at Mott Haven Village Preparatory High School, a first for the small public high school located in the senate district represented by Diaz, Sr. Vikky, who participates in the Radio Rookies program for aspiring young journalists sponsored by local public radio station WNYC-FM, reported on the historic experience in this piece that first aired on Thursday.

Advocate.com caught up with Vikky and Deoine, who graduated on Friday, at WNYC-FM to talk about the achievement, which is immortalized with a photo in their high school yearbook. “Nobody said anything negative about it,” said Deoine. “Everybody said, ‘Oh, that’s good you won. You both look so cute!’”

Vikky said she was approached by the yearbook’s editor, a friend who admired how she and Deoine have been together for two and a half years during what is often a tumultuous period in young dating lives. Maribel, who also speaks in the radio segment, encouraged Vikky to run for the honor. Deoine needed less convincing. When it came for students to vote, however, one small error existed on the ballots.

“They gave out papers that said ‘boy’ and ‘girl,’” said Vikky, with the exactitude of a budding newsperson. Maribel and Deoine rushed around the classrooms and assured their peers they could edit the voting categories and vote for two girls if they wished.

“They all scratched out ‘boy’ and put ‘girl’,” said Deoine. “That’s how we won.”

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