And the students fought back by baking.
The St Joseph Catholic Secondary School told the school's unofficial Gay-Straight Alliance that it couldn't display any rainbows at an anti-homophobia event on June 3, so the students responded by making rainbow cupcakes, Canada's Xtra reports:
Leanne Iskander, 16, who founded the school's “unofficial” gay-straight alliance in March, tells Xtra the Dufferin-Peel Catholic School Board put the kibosh on displaying any rainbows at their information booth.
“We brought signs and posters with rainbows, and we were told that we can't put them up,” says Iskander, who was recently named the 2011 honoured dyke and youth grand marshal. “They said rainbows are associated with Pride. There's so many other things that a rainbow could be. It's ridiculous.”
The teacher who delivered the news told Iskander the decision came from the board. “The board wasn't there, but they knew about the event,” she says.
Since rainbows couldn't be displayed openly and proudly, the students baked rainbows into the cupcakes by dying the batter in a rainbow of colours. The cupcakes were sold for 50 cents each, raising about $200 for charity.
St Joseph Catholic Secondary School is in Missassauga, Ontario.
