{"id":44873,"date":"2016-09-22T16:25:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T20:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/gay-teen-sues-high-school-after-he-couldnt-bring-boy-to-dance\/"},"modified":"2016-09-22T16:25:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T20:25:55","slug":"gay-teen-sues-high-school-after-he-couldnt-bring-boy-to-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/gay-teen-sues-high-school-after-he-couldnt-bring-boy-to-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay Teen Sues High School After He Couldn\u2019t Bring Boy To Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Gay Teen Sues High School After He Couldn\u2019t Bring Boy To Dance<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/09\/22134212\/Lance-Sanderson-670x377.jpg\" alt=\"Lance Sanderson\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/09\/22134212\/Lance-Sanderson-670x377.jpg 670w, https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/09\/22134212\/Lance-Sanderson-360x203.jpg 360w, https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/09\/22134212\/Lance-Sanderson.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\"><\/p>\n<p>A former student is suing his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/tag\/memphis\" target=\"_blank\">Memphis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/tag\/tennessee\" target=\"_blank\">Tennessee<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/tag\/catholicism\" target=\"_blank\">Catholic<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/tag\/high-school\" target=\"_blank\">high school<\/a>&nbsp;under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/tag\/title-ix\" target=\"_blank\">Title IX<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/school-wont-let-student-bring-another-boy-to-homecoming-dance-warns-him-about-murderous-gays-20150924\" target=\"_blank\">refusing to let him take a male date to his homecoming dance<\/a>, arguing it unlawfully discriminated against him on the basis of his sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/tag\/lance-sanderson\" target=\"_blank\">Lance Sanderson<\/a>, 19, asked permission to bring a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">male<\/a> date to an upcoming dance during the end of his junior year at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/tag\/christian-brothers-high-school\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Brothers High School<\/a> (CBHS), an all-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">boys<\/a> private school. He&nbsp;was told via email by his principal that he &ldquo;really struggle[d]&rdquo; with allowing Sanderson to bring a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">boy<\/a> to the dance. When Sanderson posted the email to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/tag\/twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, he was reprimanded and told he could no longer be&nbsp;a&nbsp;school photographer, as he had been, even though he was not accused of violating any rules.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/gay-man-fired-catholic-diocese-files-federal-lawsuit-20160825\" target=\"_blank\">Gay Man Fired By Catholic Diocese Files Federal Lawsuit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The school had no rules against bringing another <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">male<\/a> to a dance. Their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbhs.org\/Academics\/Handbook\" target=\"_blank\">code of conduct<\/a> still states, &ldquo;All CBHS students should feel safe, secure and accepted regardless of color, race, background, appearance, popularity, athletic ability, intelligence, personality, sexual orientation, religion or nationality.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Sanderson felt anything but safe, secure and accepted.<\/p>\n<p>He put up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/christian-brothers-high-school-let-lance-take-his-date-to-homecoming\" target=\"_blank\">petition on Change.org<\/a>, which received support from tens of thousands of people, but it was ultimately not successful in changing the school&rsquo;s mind.<\/p>\n<p>In the petition, Sanderson states that he had been out at his school since freshman year and that when he first brought up the idea of bringing a same-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a> date to homecoming a school official told him they didn&rsquo;t discriminate.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But when that school official left over the summer, I was met with harsh opposition by my school,&rdquo; he wrote. &ldquo;One administrator told me that even though some people interpreted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/pope-francis-who-am-i-to-judge-the-gays-20130729\" target=\"_blank\">Pope Francis&rsquo;s teachings on the issue<\/a> as meaning they should support same-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">couples<\/a>, these people are, &lsquo;not the authority to which Christian Brothers High School is accountable.&#8217;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/pope-francis-clarifies-earlier-remarks-about-gay-people-20160112\" target=\"_blank\">Pope Francis Clarifies Earlier Remarks About Gay People<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the days leading up to the dance,&nbsp;the school began to broadcast daily messages over the intercom that students were not allowed to bring <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">boys<\/a> from other schools as dates.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit states that this left Sanderson feeling &ldquo;bullied by both the school administration and by some of the students.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As a private school, CBHS held itself out to be nondiscriminatory with regard to sexual orientation,&rdquo; Sanderson&rsquo;s attorney, Manis, told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/feature\/nbc-out\/gay-student-sues-school-after-he-couldn-t-bring-boy-n652151\" target=\"_blank\">NBC<\/a>. &ldquo;In our eyes, it seems very clear those were hollow words&hellip;They were not interested in treating [Sanderson] the same as other students.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He chose not to attend the dance, and CBHS sent him home for a &ldquo;cooling off&rdquo; period of indeterminate length. When he returned a week later, he says he felt unwelcome.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Everyone thought I had been expelled,&rdquo; Sanderson said. &ldquo;It was pretty clear that I wasn&rsquo;t welcome on campus&hellip;I was sure it wasn&rsquo;t going to be good for me to be there for the rest of the year.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I was very active at school,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It was a big part of my life, and it was all of a sudden gone. I was alone 24\/7.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Sanderson and the school worked out an agreement where he would finish his senior year with online classes and at-home study. He received his diploma that spring but did not attend the graduation ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>With his lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Circuit Court, Sanderson is seeking up to $1 million from CBHS.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/lgbtq-rights-groups-ask-big-12-not-include-byu-discriminatory-policies-20160810\" target=\"_blank\">LGBTQ Rights Groups Ask Big 12 Not To Include&nbsp;BYU Over Discriminatory Policies<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have confirmation that CBHS receives federal funding and also potentially state funding for certain programs at the school,&rdquo; Howard Manis, one of Sanderson&rsquo;s lawyers, said. &ldquo;That makes them responsible for following the letter of the law under Title IX.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>While Title IX does not specifically include LGBTQ persons in its language concerning protection against <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a> discrimination in federally funded education programs and activities, recent court rulings have set precedent that they are to be protected under the law.<\/p>\n<p>This includes a ruling by a federal judge in California who sided with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/5-lesbian-basketball-players-who-could-school-pepperdine-20151221\" target=\"_blank\">two lesbians who sued Pepperdine<\/a>, a&nbsp;private Christian university.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I hope they don&rsquo;t do this to anyone else in the future,&rdquo; Sanderson, who now attends DePaul University, said of CBHS, &ldquo;and that other schools that try to abide by similar philosophies don&rsquo;t do this to their students. I really don&rsquo;t want anyone else to go through what I went through this year.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=orNdIu5OUoc:amGXP5fXmo8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=orNdIu5OUoc:amGXP5fXmo8:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/gay-teen-sues-high-school-couldnt-bring-boy-dance-20160922?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.queerty.com\/gay-teen-sues-high-school-couldnt-bring-boy-dance-20160922?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gay Teen Sues High School After He Couldn\u2019t Bring Boy To Dance A former student is suing his Memphis, Tennessee Catholic high school&nbsp;under Title IX for refusing to let him take a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">male<\/a> date to his homecoming dance, arguing it unlawfully discriminated against him on the basis of his sexual orientation. 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