The Crazy Reason This Teen's Yearbook Quote Was Almost Banned by His School
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The Crazy Reason This Teen's Yearbook Quote Was Almost Banned by His School
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/news/a41834/maxwell-barrett-yearbook-quote/
By Tess Koman
Jun 11, 2015
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Not only did Maxwell Barrett, 18, use his senior yearbook quote as an opportunity to come out to his parents, but he also used it as a way to fight a teacher's homophobic attitude. "Of course I dress well, I didn't spend all that time in the closet for nothing," his quote (attributed to "Unknown") reads.
The senior at Raritan High School in Hazlet, New Jersey, told Cosmopolitan.com in an email that when he first submitted his quote to the yearbook committee, a teacher pulled it from the publication. "I had a sit-down with the teacher of the club and she told me she didn't like the quote and that I was trying to give myself too much 'shock value.'"
Barrett wrote that other teachers and students helped him petition the principal and vice principal because "this teacher could not just pull my quote because she is uncomfortable with gay people." Finally, he was allowed to submit his quote as is.
The feedback has been nothing but positive. He first put it up on Twitter where it got thousands of favorites. On Tumblr, it really blew up, garnering 70,000 reblogs overnight.
As for how he decided on the quote: "I either wanted to do something meaningful or something out of this world that others haven't seen before … I had yet to come out to my parents about me being gay (but of course they already knew), so I thought this would be the funniest and easiest way to do so."
Barrett is the latest delightful teen in a series of delightful teens who've chosen sassy yearbook quotes this year. May they all live long and continue to sass their elders.
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How sad that sopciety still hides what is here.
