{"id":520175,"date":"2010-04-08T05:07:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T09:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=99755"},"modified":"2010-04-08T05:07:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T09:07:15","slug":"lady-gaga-reaches-out-to-teen-suspended-for-wearing-one-of-her-t-shirts-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/520175","title":{"rendered":"Lady Gaga Reaches Out To Teen Suspended For Wearing One Of Her T-Shirts To School"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lady Gaga has reached out to a Tennessee teen, who was sent home from school — to national headlines — this week after wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan “I Love Lady Gay Gay.”<\/a> School administrators claimed the shirt caused “disruption” among students.<\/p>\n

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Cole Goforth<\/a> was sent home from Greenbrier High School in Tennessee on Monday after he arrived wearing the shirt, referring to the pop sensation and gay icon. A dress code implemented by the local school board does not specifically ban shirts with the word “gay” on them, but principals and instructors can penalize violators at their own discretion.<\/p>\n

The “Poker Face” hitmaker, who is currently in Australia as part of her sold-out Monster Ball Tour, heard about the fracas Down South and hit her Twitter page to defend her 15-year-old fan in a series of posts decrying the suspension.<\/p>\n

“Thank u for wearing your tee-shirt proud at school, you make me so proud… You are an inspiration to us all. I love you,”<\/em> Gaga Tweeted to Goforth.<\/p>\n

She later added, “Been in the studio for days and hours of record after record, and when I hear that a little monster (fan) was discriminated against BY TEACHERS… It reminds me of my commitment (and) love for you, and the deep unconditional devotion I feel to write music that will liberate you from prejudice….”<\/em><\/p>\n

The school argues that a shirt with the word “gay” on it could potentially make other students feel “uncomfortable.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“I just think my sexuality isn’t widely accepted around here, so of course they are going to single me out,” <\/em>says Colin, who is gay.<\/p>\n

His mom agrees: “I think they are singling him out\u2026 They’ve made statements that if he wore this in California, he’d fit in just fine,” <\/em> Julie Gordon added.<\/p>\n

Homophobia is so ’80s! Let the kid wear his tee!<\/p>\n

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Lady Gaga has reached out to a Tennessee teen, who was sent home from school — to national headlines — this week after wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan “I Love Lady Gay Gay.” School administrators claimed the shirt caused “disruption” among students. Cole Goforth was sent home from Greenbrier High School in Tennessee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}