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Ryan Murphy is set to direct Netflix's upcoming musical feature film 'The Prom', which is loosely based on an incident that occurred in 2010 to high school student Constance McMillen. The young woman who was a student at Itawamba Agricultural High School in Mississippi wanted to take her girlfriend to her senior prom and also wear a tuxedo but things didn't go as smoothly for her as it would have gone for her peers.
According to reports, McMillen's school said that "same-sex couples and girls wearing tuxedos" were a violation of their school policy and the school board ended up banning McMillen from her prom. Being the brave person that she is, McMillen spoke up about the injustice only for the school to cancel the prom entirely. The Sun reported that McMillen was "shunned" by her classmates with some even sporting T-shirts that read, "Thanks, Constance, for ruining prom". While her peers thought it was funny to have a party without her, they were on the wrong side of the tracks considering the fact that McMillen's story has inspired 'The Prom', starring Hollywood A-listers such as Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and James Corden.