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| Gay, Mentally Challenged Biracial Male Cheerleader Claims Discrimination |
| 2010-02-06 |
| Even in 2010, growing up gay isn't easy. Add in the complicating factors of being a mentally challenged, biracial guy who wants to wave around pom-poms in a small town, and you have a recipe for the most hellacious high school experience in Eastern Washington. Benjamin Grundy is a student at Garfield-Palouse High School (local population: 1,100) who says the school is discriminating against his wishes to do what all the other cheerleaders are doing. Namely, dance, wave pom-poms, wear a proper uniform and not just stand like there like a statue moving his arms. That's what Grundy and his mom say he's been reduced to since the cheerleading coach instructed him he couldn't gyrate his hips like the girls do and the athletic director allegedly suggested he be the team mascot. Since writing letters to ACLU and a local congresswoman, Garfield has offered Grundy a uniform and pom-poms. But that's not enough, says his mom. As you can see in the video above, Grundy's mother is what you might refer to as a Grizzly Bear. A primal necessity considering (and this can't be emphasized enough) Grundy is a mentally challenged, biracial gay kid growing up in a small town who wants to be a cheerleader. So excuse her when she says she wants to take her poor son's plight to Congress. She's just acting the way any Mama Bear would when her cub was born with a "torment me" sign stuck to his back. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #6 check out Mom on the video, and you'll know why he "turned" gay. Ugh |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-02-06 14:19 |
| #5 I don't understand why he is not a regular on reality tv. The scouts don't usually miss that level of qualification. Forget the school I think his mom has a case against several cable channels. He should have the same opportunity to hot-tub bask with skanks as any other freak with is level of dysfunction. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2010-02-06 11:42 |
| #4 WTF, he needs to move out of Eastern Washington and go to Seattle. |
| Posted by: 746 2010-02-06 10:36 |
| #3 The comments at the link are not terribly enlightening with one exception. The mother posts a long comment that fills in a lot of detail and context to this story. She sounds reasonable enough on paper, so to speak, and claims she is a military veteran. Based on her account, I really think the school screwed themselves here. Instead of holding actual tryouts for the cheerleading team, which would have provided a forum for this kid to try out, they just told him he was on the team, no tryouts necessary. It was then that the AD and the school tried to prevent him from participating. Had the school held tryouts to begin with and decided then that he wasn't good enough to be on the cheerleading team, this whole thing would be a non-event. |
| Posted by: eltoroverde 2010-02-06 10:16 |
| #2 Back in the day we used to call people like this "crazy" and lock them up for their own good. I guess we don't do that anymore... |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2010-02-06 08:43 |
| #1 Voted in as a "cheerleader" by an inclusive, pro-gay student body and faculty no doubt. LIVE WITH IT you perverts! If Benjamin can't be a full-fledged "gyrating hips" cheerleader, maybe he could fill in as a sub down in grades K thru 3. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-02-06 08:29 |