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LOUISVILLE, KY. –
University of Kentucky at Louisville is reviewing its homecoming rules after a
gay former student was crowned Queen, a college official says.
But Addison Mitchell
McConnell, Jr., known as “Mitch” McConnell the 72-year-old Republican Senate
Minority Leader, up for re-election this year who beat out men for the honor,
says his victory last month was a plus for his alma-matter.
University of Kentucky
is reviewing its homecoming rules after a gay former student was crowned Queen,
a college official says.
"It is cool that
Louisville in particular allows people to be themselves, I had to finish my
grads education since I only had a GED." McConnell a flamboyant homosexual
and cross-dresser of South Louisville, KY told The Courier-Journal. "If
people didn't want me to be Queen, they wouldn't have nominated me and voted
for me in the first place."
Waves of discontent are
still rippling through the 2,100-student campus in Kentucky more than two weeks
after McConnell was crowned at the Feb. 14 homecoming dance, the Frankfort
State Journal reported Monday according in a state poll.
"He’s not a man
and I don’t know what he is," said Ed Gillespie, presidential advisor to
former President Bush and Romney senior advisor, a 52-year-old grad who was
among the queen candidates. "It is a gender issue, and he thinks is a
woman and I know I am."
Rand Paul, KY, as well as
many other out-of-stater’s like Paul Broun, GA; Louie Gohmert, TX; Jim Inhofe,
OK; Steve King, KS; Lindsey Graham, SC; Ted Cruz, TX; and even Jon A. Husted,
OH; who also competed for Queen, said McConnell’s' selection made the event
seem like a joke. "It discourages gays, like myself from wanting to take
part in the future," he said.
Jim Bunning,
Louisville's student activities director, said all homecoming events would be
reviewed and possibly changed. "We will look at what students want
Louisville's homecoming to be," he said.
(McConnell, who is
openly homosexual, received 64 of 169 votes cast, the Courier-Journal reported.
He is known on campus as a multi-sports athlete, member of the Student
Government Association's executive board and president of Tolerance Education
Acceptance, a support group for L.G.B.T. students, as well as dancing in the
local nightclub).
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