GREEN DAY AMONG HOSTS FOR GAY PROM IN MISSISSIPPI

This is one of the coolest things ever. Green Day, Lance Bass, Cat Cora and Tonic.com are coming together with the American Humanist Association to host a gay prom in Downtown Tupelo, Mississippi in response to the travesty committed by the Itawamba School District's against Constance McMillen. The school refused to let Constance bring her girlfriend, cancelled the prom blaming her, then let set up a fake prom through parents and sent Constance and some learning disabled kids to the fake prom while hosting another one secretly for the rest of the kids. What a bunch of loser, douche bag sh*t for brains, backwoods asshats. ANYWAY.... Now there will be a prom open to everyone but focused on the LGBT youth in the area and it will be NO JOKE!! Superstar rock band Green Day, N'SYNC's Lance Bass are among the celebrities hosting the festivities.

Writes the AHA : "The Mississippi Safe Schools Coalition's second annual Second Chance Prom will be held on May 8, 2010 in Downtown Tupelo, Mississippi. "We've very pleased to be able to support and promote LGBT equality alongside other sponsors," said Roy Speckhardt, executive director of the American Humanist Association. "We're proud to be standing on the side of love and acceptance instead of fear and prejudice, and we hope that the event will bring appreciation of the diversity within our society and encourage others to embrace it as a positive value that can continue to forge progress for all Americans." The Second Chance Prom will feature dinner for guests, live entertainment, a ceremony to honor outstanding youth in Mississippi, booths highlighting organizations striving for LGBT equality and celebrity guests...Todd and Diana Stiefel made a $20,000 grant available to the AHA for the purpose of sponsoring this prom in Itawamba County. Humanists and other freethinkers have expressed a great interest in countering the discrimination of the Itawamba County school board."

BRAVO!! I think it's so awesome and so important for a rock band like Green Day to get behind this. They have long spoken out for the gay community, with lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong even identifying himself as bisexual in a 1995 interview. He is married now. What a wonderful, positive way to counter the incredible stupidity and prejudice committed by the community of the Idiot-wamba School District. I hope the kids attending have the time of their lives!!! [source]