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As reported in the Star-Ledger this past weekend, Newark school officials, just before distributing yearbooks to students at East Side High School, took magic markers to cover up a yearbook photo of an 18-year-old graduating senior kissing his boyfriend.  The school district says the photo was "illicit" -- but that's homophobic nonsense!  First, the photo is of two guys kissing and nothing more.  Secondly, the school district DID NOT TOUCH THE PHOTOS OF STRAIGHT STUDENTS KISSING THEIR OPPOSITE-SEX BOYFRIENDS AND GIRLFRIENDS. 

This is outrageous!  Write to Newark schools superintendent Marion Bolden asking her to redistribute the yearbooks without the photo covered up -- and demand that she publicly apologize to the student, his boyfriend and the LGBTI community.  The school district's action shows incredible insensitivity and intolerance.  We must reverse it.