Gag dress gets student suspended
School Suspends Boy for Wearing Prom Dress
Kerry Lofy, a senior at Lake Geneva Badger High School in the Lake Geneva Area School District, went to his prom with his gay friend. He himself is straight. The school didn’t have a problem with his date but it did have a problem with his ensemble. Lofy was suspended for three days for wearing a dress to the prom.
“I thought it would be more appropriate for there to be one person dressed like a girl and a person dressed like a guy, than for there to be two guys to go,” said Lofy, a member of the school’s track, ski, powerlifting and soccer teams.
Also, he thought people would find it funny to see a 6-foot, 185-pound male in a black, stretchy, spaghetti-strap dress.
When Lofy showed up in the dress, a blond wig, open-toed platform sandals, blue earrings and a necklace, teachers turned him away. He said he showed up later with a tan-and-black plaid leisure suit over the dress, went inside and whipped off the suit during a dance-off. A security guard escorted him out, he said.
When he arrived at school the next Monday he was informed that he was suspended from school and barred from his last track meet.
School district administrator Jim Gottinger said the discipline was for more than just the dress, noting Kerry Lofy, 18, was dancing in a sexually provocative manner at the prom, according to a police report.
Provocative dancing is okay for girls in dresses and guys in tuxes but not guys in dresses. Apparently provocative dancing by guys in dresses is actually illegal, seeing as this reference was from a police report. The cast of La Cage aux Folles better hope these guys never come to a performance.
More coverage at Rhymes with Right.
(Tip credit to Bumper)
Additional contact information:
Principal Dr. Mark Pienkos
It might seem stupid for a male student to wear a dress to the prom, but that is his right. We don’t usually suspend people for doing stupid things. If we did, most school administrators would be suspended! Especially in this district!
And I don’t buy the suggestive dancing bit either! What is wrong with these people that they look for trouble. What does it harm for some guy to wear a dress? As long as he is willing to put up with the kidding from his peers, who cares?
barry
Hey, I agree with barry. The end of the world is near.
At my prom (in 1999), we had a couple where the girl wore a tux and the guy wore a dress (simple black velvet). It was a non-event as far as the teachers/admin were concerned. I don’t think anyone who didn’t know the guy, or one of his friends, even noticed. That seems like a far better way of handling it than to turn it into a big production like this school. Don’t they have bigger problems they should be handling, rather than wasting time and negative publicity on this?
Obviously, for some traditionalists, such actions may ruin the evening for them, but, in that case, they should throw their own privately
funded event, and not expect the public school to throw them a party. It’s simple - you want a public school to sponsor your event, it’s open season.
I went to homecoming in a dress, my date wore a suit. It was a lot of fun, My nails kept comming off though. My vice princeple even danced with me. ( She had Kicked me out of school two years before). It was a lot of fun, and no one really cared all that much. Several guys sugested I try out for cheer or drill team but it was good natured teasing.
Travis,
Don’t post the boast unless you include a URL for a picture.
kerry is an idiot. he went to my school, and he is cheeky, and disrespectful. he was fully warned before prom, yet he still went ahead with it.
If he is straight why would he wear a dress.. he still should be allowed to wear it because that is a way he freely expresses himself
I dont blame him I want to wear a dress to my prom but I dont have the will. It just all fun and games. I dont look down on people that do this is just there way of being them. We all have our own personallity. Hey, If you got the will and not afraid to get laughed at wear a dress to the prom. Its one way of changing the old tradition.