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Cleveland High Students Break With Tradition Again, Install Two Homecoming Queens

The high school opened the annual election to students of any gender in 2013.

By Beth Slovic

Two years ago, Cleveland High School students made national headlines by electing a lesbian couple to its homecoming court.

This year, students at the Southeast Portland high school continued their barrier busting with the election last month of two friends as queen and queen of Cleveland's homecoming court, the student newspaper reports.

Unlike most high schools in the U.S., Cleveland doesn't cling to the notion that its homecoming court should be led by a king and queen. The high school opened the annual election to students of any gender in 2013.

"We are being very respectful and not putting people in categories," teacher Camille Adana told Cleveland's Clarion newspaper.

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