Portland Cleveland High School Students Set Model of Inclusion

The students at Cleveland High School have selected a Lesbian couple to the Homecoming Court as reported in The Oregonian.  It's going to be a better world when these folks start running the show.

When Cleveland High students helped Sophie Schoenfeld and Laurel Osborne make school history last month, they hardly seemed to notice.
The two seniors have been dating for about a year. In October, their fellow students elected them to the school’s homecoming court, marking the first time the Southeast Portland school -- and likely any Portland-area high school -- has voted in a same-sex couple.
Every year a prince and a princess for each grade are nominated and voted on by their fellow students. But at the Oct. 4 homecoming assembly, students broke tradition and selected the two girls as the senior class representatives for the court.
The vote, first reported by the Cleveland High School Clarion newspaper, was historic. Yet the students treated the pair like any other homecoming couple, according to Schoenfeld, 18. Teachers, she said, spoke more about the vote’s importance than their classmates.
“A lot of teachers went up to us and said it speaks volumes for the school,” Schoenfeld said.
The couple said they have never felt judged for their sexual orientation at Cleveland High.
“Cleveland is such a cool community,” said Osborne, 17. “I’ve never felt discriminated against. We feel really lucky because it’s not always like that. Cleveland is just a progressive, accepting place.”