Boys kissing

Boys kissing: number eleventy-seven

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
-Mark Twain

On Thursday evening, when the seniors gathered at a restaurant here for the Senior Banquet, students received the yearbooks...
But the picture of Mr. Jackson kissing his boyfriend was gone. School officials had blacked it out. Roughly 250 yearbooks were distributed, and all of them had a black-marker splotch covering every inch of the photo.

Linky to the New York Times.

I'm reading between the lines here, but this is just a perfect trifecta of the scary: black and Hispanic and queer all at the same time.

How many people, and how many black markers, did it take to pretend to erase these people - to pretend that they wouldn't exist anymore?


Boys kissing at Dirty John Bonny.