Gay student finally allowed to deliver controversial speech

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Valedictorian Evan Young, delivering his speech at an Out Boulder event on Sunday after he was not allowed to speak at his own graduation. (Photo: Democracy Now!)

 

Evan Young — the high school valedictorian who made headlines Friday when his Colorado school blocked him from giving his graduation speech because it included the disclosure that he was gay — wound up giving his address after all. He did so in front of an audience of about 300 on Sunday, not at his school, but at a fundraising event for the LGBT equality organization Out Boulder.

 

“My cheeks still hurt from smiling so much,” Out Boulder executive director Mardi Moore tells Yahoo Parenting about the joyous, supportive atmosphere surrounding Young’s speech. “He’s an amazing young man. He runs more than 13 miles a day, he’s so polite, so incredibly bright, and a tremendous writer who expresses himself so clearly. He only went public with his story in the hopes that it would make the world a better place.”

 

https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/gay-student-finally-allowed-to-deliver-120460316932.html

[+ Cock Eyed Optimist]

Kudos to the "Out Boulder" group, but I am wondering why the school chose to bar his speech just because he was going to "come out" to the audience.

Has there been any backlash toward the school from civil rights groups?