From the Dayton Daily News:
HAMILTON (yes, that's Ohio, folks) — A Garfield Middle School student and his family are challenging the Hamilton City School District over his right to wear black eyeliner and lipstick to school.
Matt Allsup, a 13-year-old eighth-grader at the school, was told Monday, Sept. 22, to wash the makeup off his face. An administrator told Allsup it was "distracting" and therefore against the district's dress code.
Allsup said the makeup "expresses who I am. I am not like other people. I like rock 'n' roll and this expresses that. I am discriminated against."
Students in the Hamilton school district wear character badges that encourage acceptance and valuing the uniqueness of others, Allsup said.
"Why make us wear the character cards if they are not going to let us be unique?" he asked.
"It's gender stereotyping and sexual discrimination," said his mother, Mindy Ball. "If he has to take off his lipstick, then so do the little girls in the school."
Of course, all of us queers are on high alert since Lawrence King. I promise I'll keep y'all updated. Oh yea, and hell yea, Mom in the article! You are *AWESOME!*
What does everyone think???
