Post-Tribune – Sharlonda L. Waterhouse – Post-Tribune staff writer
The prom ticket was in hand: $85. The fuschia, slinky prom dress and strappy heels were ready.
The whole week of giddy anticipation and pampering ? more than $200 worth of a manicure, pedicure and hair set ? was set to culminate with the grand walk into the glam ball.
But when Kevin Logan, a transgender and gay student at Gary?s West Side High School, arrived last Friday at Avalon Manor in Hobart for his prom, he was banned by Principal Diane Rouse.
That ban, according to Indiana Civil Liberties Union legal director Ken Falk, violates the First Amendment.
The Logan family is mulling both a complaint with the ICLU and possible litigation.
?When I tried to walk in, she asked me where am I going. She said, ‘You?re not walking in here today,? ? Logan, 18, said.