For her senior portrait, the black velvet, V-neck drape that the young women were required to wear just didn’t feel like her. So she opted to wear a tux instead.

A high school senior in Alabama was excluded from her yearbook after posing for her portrait in a tux. Now, she's bringing awareness to the incident, although her school is making up for it.

JACKSON, Miss. -- A Mississippi school superintendent said today that previous federal court rulings back up a principal's decision to keep a teenage lesbian's picture out of a high school yearbook.

The black velvet, V-neck drape that the young women were required to wear just didn’t feel like her. Holley Gerelds wanted to wear a tuxedo for her senior yearbook portrait, instead. The ...

The black velvet, V-neck drape that the young women were required to wear just didn't feel like her. Holley Gerelds wanted to wear a tuxedo for her senior yearbook portrait, instead.

Holley Gerelds said when got her senior class yearbook back from Springville High School last week, she wasn’t surprised to see her photo wasn’t in it. “I expected it,” she said. “Nobody ...

Principal Relents, Lets Girl Wear Tux for Yearbook School told teen she had to dress like a girl for picture By Michael Flynn and Matthew Stabley • Published September 16, 2009 • Updated on ...

An Alabama high school student who wore a tuxedo for her senior portrait instead of the traditional black drape for girls received her yearbook only to discover that her photo was missing, NBC ...

While the yearbook portrait rules state that women must wear a drape (a black velvet cloth across their shoulders) and men must wear a tuxedo, Gerelds said she asked if she could wear a tuxedo ...

SPRINGVILLE, Ala. — An Alabama high school graduate doesn’t appear in her yearbook after wearing a tuxedo top for her senior portrait, instead of the black drape female students usually wear.

SPRINGVILLE, Ala. - An Alabama high school graduate doesn't appear in her yearbook after wearing a tuxedo top for her senior portrait, instead of the black drape female students usually wear.