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ost high schixil students spend
the month before graduation
dealing with mixed feelings of
nostalgia
and
im patience,
j S v preparing for college and find
ing a prom date.
Not David Wright. 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. Thousands o f kids nationwide agreed
not to speak as a way o f drawing atten tion to
his experience got Wright to thinking, “If
they freak out over this, how are they going
the issue.
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