Source: Houston Voice
In Portsmouth, Virginia, a high school female has been punished for wearing a T-shirt featuring a lesbian pride symbol (two overlapping female gender symbols).

A teacher was upset by the shirt, and school officials at I.C. Norcom High School had threatened the 17-year-old senior with suspension, according to a press  release from the American Civil Liberties Union.

"When my teacher told me she wanted me to turn my shirt inside-out or cover it up, I was confused, because I've worn that shirt to school several times before and nobody ever said a word about it," said Bethany Laccone, who attends a different school full-time but goes to Norcom High every morning for a hotel management class. "I wear that shirt because I want people to know that I'm proud of being a lesbian and comfortable with who I am. And I have the same Constitutional right to free speech as any other student."

The ACLU wants the high school to remove any mention of the censorship from Laccone's student record, guarantee that it will not illegally censor Laccone or any other student and apologize to Laccone.

The assistant principal and the teacher told Laccone when she was pulled out of class for the shirt that it violated a section of the dress code that bans "bawdy, salacious or sexually suggestive messages." Later on, the asst. principal told Laccone's father that he was upholding the ban on the shirt because the teacher is "very conservative" and claimed that she was so upset by it that it "interfered with her ability to teach."

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