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Prom offers flood in for Mississippi students

"An advocacy group for gay students in Mississippi said it has been fielding dozens of offers from around the nation to hold a prom for students of Itawamba Agricultural High School in Fulton, Miss.
The Itawamba County school board Wednesday canceled the school's planned April 2 dance after a lesbian student challenged the district's policy against same-sex dates. As news of the board's decision spread across the nation, Matthew Sheffield of the Mississippi Safe Schools Coalition said his office was flooded by people looking to help.
"We have so many people willing to donate money, resources, time," he said. "We are trying to figure out what we are going to do."
Among those is New Orleans hotel owner Sean Cummings, who offered to transport the students by bus from the northeast Mississippi city and host the prom at one his properties free of charge.
Film director Paul Saltzman offered to provide a screening of his movie Prom Night in Mississippi as part of the entertainment at a private prom for the students. The documentary, shot in 2008, is about the first racially integrated prom at Charleston High School in North Mississippi.
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Saltzman said he talked it over with his wife, co-producer Patricia Aquino, and they decided the movie had a message for the students.
"It's about tolerance, ultimately. It doesn't matter whether it is white or black or gay or straight," he said.
Constance McMillan, the 18-year-old senior who challenged the school district's policy, recorded a video message on a Facebook page set up to support her decision.
"I never thought in a thousand, billion years that there would be so many people that would support something that I am doing," she said in the message. "I think that it is great there are that many people out there that understand the difference between what is wrong and right."