While Constance McMillen and a few of her fellow students showed up at an alternative prom announced last Tuesday by the Itawamba County Agricultural High School’s attorney, the rest of her class went to a private, parent-organized prom at a local community center, leaving McMillen and six other students with nothing but an empty gym. The ACLU says they are still gathering information about what happened, and may include the events in their damages suit against the district, but it appears that their options are limited, unless they can prove the school district was complicit in setting up the decoy prom.

Elsewhere…

D.C. – What is the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division up to? Not protecting or advancing our civil rights, apparently. (The Advocate)

D.C. – The GetEQUAL activists arrested for staging a sit-in in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office to protest inaction on ENDA will be arraigned today. (Towleroad)

Montana – Gang attacks, beats man outside the only gay bar in Missoula. Police are treating the case as a robbery and not a hate crime. (Towleroad)

Oklahoma – Tulsa man beaten, harassed, robbed, and has his home broken into because he’s gay. (Towleroad)

New York – Police targeting a New York City gay bar because of its mostly black clientele. (The Bilerico Project)

Florida – Male-Congressional-Page-fondling former US Rep. Mark Foley likes gay polo. Watch out, horses… (apparently, a bunch of posh men playing a sport chiefly enjoyed by other posh men constitutes fighting for equality,’ according to a professional polo player who participated). (Joe.My.God)

Iraq – What a DADT discharge process in a combat zone looks like, up close. (Queerty)

Teh Interwebs – What’s it like being the estranged son of Fred Phelps, head of the Westboro Baptist Church? (Towleroad)