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SAN DIEGO -- A local high school is being bombarded with phone calls and emails after students elected a lesbian couple to be homecoming king and queen this weekend, the district superintendent said Monday.
"I am disappointed that this happy and positive event has recieved national media coverage, which has attracted what I can only call a slew of hate calls and emails," Superintendent Bill Kowba said in a statement which he read to reporters.
Friday, students at Patrick Henry High School elected senior Rebeca Arellano homecoming king. Then on Saturday night at the school's homecoming dance, Arrellano's girlfriend, Haileigh Adams, was crowned homecoming queen.
The non-traditional choice for homecoming king attracted international attention. Stories about it on online websites have attracted hundreds of comments. They have also prompted some very ugly responses directly to the school, which is in San Diego's suburban San Carlos neighborhood, San Diego Unified School District Superintendent Bill Kowba said.
Many of the adults who contacted the school are not residents of San Diego, and their comments were hateful and showed a lack of tolerance, Kowba said.
"I stand behind our students and school staff in supporting the Patrick Henry Homecoming King and Queen," he concluded.
Arellano and Adams declined to speak Monday, wishing to keep more nasty messages from being sent to their school.