Again from the article:



According to Young and his family, prior to the graduation ceremony, the principal called the student's father, Don Young — who has previously served on the charter school's board of directors — and outed the teen to his parents. "Mr. Buchmann called me and said, 'I've got Evan's speech here. There's two things in it that I don't think are appropriate,'" Don Young, an accountant, recalled. "One was he had mentioned another student's name. And then there was his coming out that he was gay." That was the first time in Evan Young's life that his parents had been given a clue about his sexual identity. "My parents are very liberal. I think they were totally OK with it," Evan Young. "But I was not OK with it.

Evan was fortunate in that he has a very supportive family. But his graduation was ruined by this bigoted piece of shit of a principal, as was his plans to come out to family and friends on his terms.

And think what would have happened if Evan Young's family wasn't supportive. How many gay students got outed by Principal Buchmann who didn't have such supportive parents? Did any of those kids get thrown out of their homes onto the streets? Or disowned? Or refused tuition help when going to college? Or sent off to "reparative therapy" for some psychological abuse? Did Buchmann think of that?

This asshat of a principal needs to be fired. Immediately.