Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe WESSON, Miss., Oct. 15 (UPI) -- A Mississippi high school student says she is fighting to get her picture in the yearbook after officials rejected it because she wore a tuxedo. Ceara Sturgis of Wesson, a senior at Wesson Attendance Center, said officials rejected her senior portrait because she chose to wear a tuxedo for the picture instead of traditional feminine clothing, WLBT-TV, Jackson, Miss., reported Thursday. Advertisement "It makes me feel I'm not important enough. Like just because I'm wearing a tux I can't be in my senior yearbook. It's like I never even went there. That's my yearbook. This is my senior year and I'm not gonna be able to be in there because I'm wearing a tux. I don't think it matters what we're wearing" said Sturgis, who is openly gay. A Copiah County School District spokeswoman said yearbook photo decisions are left up to the principal. Principal Ronald Greer declined to comment. Sturgis' mother, Veronica Rodriguez, said she has hired an attorney to help get her daughter's picture in the yearbook.
