Some happier news. Gay.com reports that a lesbian couple will be listed in their US high school yearbook as "class sweethearts'' -- over the objections of the school principal.
Seniors at Dover High School overwhelmingly named Nicole Salisbury and Ashley Lagasse as "class sweethearts'' when the yearbook staff conducted its annual survey to name students to categories such as "most artistic'' or "nicest eyes''. Salisbury and Lagasse, both 17, have been a couple for more than two years.
Principal Robert Pedersen said the results were invalid because the ballots asked students to choose one male and one female for the "class sweethearts'' category, but following plans for a student petition, school superintendent Armand LaSelva stepped in and said the original results would stand.