A Lesbian high school couple claimed they were not allowed into a prom court because of their sexuality.
Shenta Knox announced on Twitter on April 26 she was running for prom queen and her girlfriend, Sam Washburn, for prom king because Morton Ranch High School in Texas does not provide two queen slots.
The students said they were 'confident' of receiving lots of votes so were shocked to heard they had failed to win a place when the results came out, leading to them thinking they could have been barred due to their sexuality.
'I was feeling confident but then the votes came out and I thought, 'Well dang, maybe we didn't have that much support'', Washburn told Click2Houston.
The girls said their suspicions increased when they began discounting a series of possible reasons why they had missed out.
First they asked a prom organizer whether they had been stopped from winning a place because they had received a detention a week before the count, but they were reassured it was only because they had not received enough votes.
Knox's mother Shera also got involved, asking the school district reveal how many votes the girls had received as this would show if they had really not received enough or whether they had been stopped from winning a place for other reasons.
'Show us that the girls together did not earn it and that they were not just taken off the list because they're a female couple,' she said.
Eventually the school district told the girls they had indeed been excluded from the court for disciplinary reasons.
Knox initially announced her decision to run for the court of Twitter.
'Since me and my girl both wanna be on prom court but MRHS doesn't have 2 queen slots...vote Shenta Knox as prom queen and Sam Washburn as prom 'king' next Monday!' she wrote.
However, they are still excited about going to the prom.
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