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JACKSON —
Another teenage lesbian is suing a Mississippi school district, this time over a policy banning females from wearing tuxedos in yearbook portraits.
Ceara Sturgis’ dispute with the Copiah County School District started in 2009, before Constance McMillen made headlines for her fight to have a same-sex prom date and wear a tuxedo to her school’s dance in a different district.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday for Sturgis, contending the Copiah schools discriminated against her on the basis of sex and gender stereotypes.
Before Wesson Attendance Center yearbooks were released this year, school officials said Sturgis’ photo in a tuxedo wouldn’t be included. Her name also was left out of the senior section.
District Superintendent Rickey Clopton didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment.
