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Yearbook staff protest gay couple censorship
Posted: 03.12.2012 at 5:46 PM
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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. (AP) -- Four former members of the Palmer High School yearbook staff are protesting after a school adviser ordered them to eliminate a picture identifying a gay couple and a Muslim.

Students Rudolpho Tribulio and Anna Carmicheal say their yearbook adviser told them that a photo of a lesbian couple holding hands could not be on a page they were creating about high school relationships.

School officials tell KRDO-TV the changes were made because there were too many public displays of affection.

Instead, the yearbook will have a diversity page collage with no names, only labels.

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Information from: KRDO-TV 

(Copyright ©2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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