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‘Who I am’: Student says ‘curly hair’ instead of ‘gay’ in commencement speech to avoid censorship

‘I decided to be proud of who I was.’

Scroll Staff
May 29, 2022 · 12:49 pm

florida high school class president zander moricz was told by his school that they would cut his microphone if he said “gay” in his grad speech, so he replaced gay with “having curly hair.” i am in awe pic.twitter.com/OqLbar5bwq

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