Lgbtq prom 2020
LGBTQ+ Youth Prom 2020
The Warhol takes visitor and staff health and protection seriously. In an abundance of caution, LGBTQ+ Youth Prom 2020 has been canceled.
We present the seventh Diverse Youth Prom, the largest affirming prom in Southwestern Pennsylvania! This inclusive celebration ensures that every juvenile person can make their prom night a dear memory.
Entry to prom includes a sit-down dinner, dancing, silkscreen printing, and other activities. Prom is expose to youth ages 13-20.
Do you want your voice heard in the planning of our LGBTQ+ Youth Prom? Join us for a LGBTQ+ Youth Prom Planning Meeting from 5–7 p.m. on the monitoring dates:
- Tuesday, February 18, 2020
- Tuesday, March 17, 2020
- Tuesday, April 14, 2020
- Tuesday, May 19, 2020
- Tuesday, June 2, 2020
The Warhol’s LGBTQ+ Youth Prom is generously supported by FedEx and American Eagle Outfitters Foundation
I logged onto Netflix.
New: ‘The Prom’ (2020), directed by Ryan Murphy.
Prom is written in rainbow lights – an LGBTQIA+ film?
A prom is cancelled at a high school because one of the students wants to bring her girlfriend along.
Ah, a straight person’s LGBTIQA+ film, like a lot of the “LGBTQIA+ films”, focusing on homophobia.
When I was growing up, there wasn’t a lot of queer content for me to consume.
I was an avid reader – the kid that stayed up late reading under the covers with a torch, reading in the car, and always a book in hand. Most of the media I consumed came from books. I grew up with heterosexual themes, and even though I did mental gymnastics to justify little things, like glancing (or not) at the bra shop when we were at the mall, I thought I was linear, and these were my stories.
Mentions of homosexuality came up in derogatory ways. In Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging (Louise Rennison, 1999), with homosexuality, entity a lesbian, brought up as a joke, or as an insult for the “pervy” PE teacher.
To be gay was a bad thing.
I was dealing with internalised homophobia and compulsory
After watching Netflix’s “The Prom” directed by Ryan Murphy, it was as if a queer explosion of love, turmoil, self-acceptance, theatrical boogie routines, pop ballads and sequins had just gone off, leaving me to sift through my own thoughts on what I had just experienced. The opening of the movie presents us with Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Andrew Rannells, and James Corden who perform washed up Broadway actors attempting to revive their careers. In hopes of receiving positive PR that could elevate their careers, the group hatch a plan to proceed to a petty town in Indiana to help a teenage Lesbian miss named Emma, who isn’t allowed to attend prom with her girlfriend due to her sexuality. Turns out her girlfriend’s mother is the head of the school’s PTA and the main antagonist working to stop Emma by all means.
Through the course of the story we gain old Broadway glamor, marquee lights, well-choreographed dance numbers reminiscent of High Academy Musical, and a truly relatable story of coming out in a petty town full of homophobia. I personally found the storyline predictable and some of the plot overdone however, there definitely is a strong emotional drag that can capture
The Prom (2020): When will LGBTQ+ issues become more than a plot point?
Overpriced dress? CHECK.
Hair styled? CHECK.
Prom-posal poster? CHECK.
Code for Google Join prom? CHECK.
FCPS has announced that there will be no proms held this year due to COVID-19 restrictions. This is understandably upsetting, considering that many students have dreamed about going to this event for years.
A feature adaption of the musical, The Prom showcases a trainee getting her entire prom canceled, but for a reason not many people would think.
Apparently, “being gay” can find prom canceled just as fast as COVID-19 can.
The plot revolves around Emma Nolan (Jo Ellen Pellmen), a junior at James Madison High who is denied a ticket for her school’s prom because she wants to carry another girl as a date. In the movie, this results in the PTA canceling the school’s entire prom because they deny to have an all inclusive prom. In the plot of the movie, the cancellation goes viral.
Although this film is fictional, I don’t think it’s far from reality.
Hungry for publicity, two washed up actors take up the cause. The plot thickens as it shows more screen time of the narcissistic Broadway
LGBTQ+ Youth Prom 2020 Planning Meeting
The Warhol takes visitor and staff health and safety seriously. In an abundance of caution, all of the remaining LGBTQ+ Youth Prom Planning Meetings for 2020 contain been canceled.
Do you long your voice heard in the planning of our LGBTQ+ Youth Prom? Our Youth Prom Planning Committee meets regularly on a drop-in basis leading up to the LGBTQ+ Youth Prom. LGBTQ+ youth and allies ages 13-20 are invited to attend. These meetings are the top way to get emotionally attached in the largest Homosexual Youth Prom in Southwestern Pennsylvania!
All meetings will obtain place in The Warhol’s education studio. The museum provides transportation support, diet, and a Prom ticket to all Planning Committee members, whether you go to one meeting or all five meetings. Committee members should use the museum’s security entrance on East General Robinson street. Manage any questions to teens@warhol.org.
LGBTQ+ Youth Prom is Saturday, June 6, 2020.