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Since coming out of the closet in April, the 18-year-old has learned he cannot attend his prom with another male stu dent and has endured taunting from administra tors on a day that was intended to open people’s minds about anti-gay harassment. Wright is a senior at Thom as Edison High, a “ I ’m working fo r...m y rights bestowed upon me small private schixsl in Southwest Portland. He when I was bom — my human rights— and suffers from attention deficit disorder and partial they’re being denied,” David Wright says dyslexia and has severe problems reading and W hile standing in line at the Jesuit cafeteria, writing. Wright says he handed an employee a card Edison provides individualized attention and explaining why he was not talking. She refused smaller classes— about 10 kids a rixsm— for to serve him. those with special needs. T h e Portland Public “She looked at it for about 10 seconds and Schools district pays for W rights education looked at me and goes, ‘O h, we don’t do that here,’ because it does not offer a similar program. turned her head and gix;s, ‘N ext!’ to the person Edison is located on the campus o f Jesuit behind me,” he says. “I just couldn’t believe that High, which allows the school to use its cafete ria, gymnasium and fields. It also lets the 68 stu she would say that to m e.... She’s like: ‘Other peo ple want fixxl. You need to move.’ ’’ dents attend its prom, which will he held Wright went to the bathnxim to collect him May 18 at the Tiffany Center. self. He says a teacher approached him to make Because of the shared facilities, W right’s sure he was all right. school is at the mercy of Jesuit’s rules. He says that “A t this time 1 was visibly shaking. I was so Edison administrators have been 100 percent sup upset, I could barely walk hack down to Edison,” portive hut that their hands are tied because they don’t want to get kicked off the campus. he says. “It was so hard for me. I had never felt that before-—the total disregard for who a person is.” A teacher and an adm inistrator then lthough Wright says he’s known about his approached W right, so he handed them the sexual orientation "for a while,” he’s only card. O ne of the men creased it in half. been openly gay at work and school since April 1. As far as he knows, he’s the only out “They both took their time-and read it and student at either Edison or Jesuit. were like: ‘You know what? W hile you’re on our His problems started when he and about 10 campus you will follow our rules,’ ” he says. “I was just thinking to myself, ‘W hat in their rules other students participated in the Day of Silen ce, a protest o f anti-gay harassment in says I have to speak ?’ ” schools. 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