Kearney grads address school board over omission of gay students’ quotes from yearbook

One of the two gay Kearney High School graduates whose quotes were omitted from the yearbook addressed the district’s school board Wednesday night.

“My voice was taken, and I became one of the silenced,” Thomas Swartz wrote in a statement he presented to the board. His statement was acquired by The Star.

Swartz will attend the University of Missouri-Kansas City this fall. Read more…


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