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attendees, seattle sturges and constant mcmillan. two young women, seep kblors high school who live 250 miles apart but share one thing in common they both stood up and fought for gay students in this conservative state. sierra s story was like the inspiration, when i heard her story, it inspired me for myself. reporter: what sierra did was fight to wear a tuxedo in her yearbook portrait, she didn t succeed but the story had an impact on constance. she fought for the right to take her girlfriend to had i high school prom, despite the school s ban on same-sex dates. we with just started talking. i was telling her that she shouldn t let her school tell her what she can and cannot do, that she should go to prom with her girlfriend and stand up for herself. reporter: their connection wasn t entirely random. tonight is about us becoming a stronger family.

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reporter: it was facile dated in part, by the mississippi safe schools coalition, a group of mostly high school and college students dedicated to reaching out to gay kids and making schools in mississippi safer for them to attend. y all are going to find out quick this is full-time work. reporter: the group stepped up outreach this year, their second year, after winning a $100,000 grant from the queer youth fund, to work on gay issues in mississippi. mississippi was the only state to receive a negative grade. reporter: the national gay rights group glisten deemed mississippi to be the state most hostile to gay kids. they again to gather statistics on gay youth, launched training sessions to start gay/straight alliance clubs in high schools, lobbied for anti-bullying legislation and launched a prom watch, to help kids like constance. administrators at constance s school canceled the prom rather than let her attend. the aclu filed suit on her behalf, hoping to get the prom

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schools coalition. you wore a dress to the prom? yes. i wanted to wear a tucx to m prom. not because i don t like clothes but just because. i felt like, you know, it was going to be a special night and, you know, my girlfriend was going to wear a tux, too. a thing that we were going to do. reporter: a thing that cost her nearly all her friends. my best friend from like we had been friends for like seven years, has not spoke to me since the day they canceled prom. reporter: she even lost the last few weeks of high school, choosing to finish elsewhere because of all the stress. do you regret either of you doing what you did? no? no regrets? everything happens for a reason and i think this is the start of something new. i think that this can be the change of, like, gay youth. one day, it s going to be different and someone has to start it, so why not us? reporter: reporting for in america, soledad o broil yen,

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reinstated. the judge ruled that they had violated our student right three times by not letting me bring my girlfriend not letting me wear a tucks and by canceling the prom. but? but they did not they didn t make them reporter: judge allowed parents to host the prom. constance claims the event she was allowed to attend was a fake, with the real one held elsewhere. it seemed like a joke. so a couple of couples went, handful? there was my date and i and my friend and there was six other people. reporter: the school district denies it routed constance to a sham prom. it made this event in tupelo, just miles from high school, that much more special for constance. it is called the second chance prom and held by the safe

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