A Missouri teen broke with tradition by becoming his high school’s first male homecoming queen.
Zachary Willmore, a senior at Rock Bridge High School in Columbia, said he decided to run for homecoming queen instead of king after polling his social media followers.
“They thought queen could look prettier on the sash,” he told local NBC affiliate KOMU-TV. “So I chose queen.”
Willmore’s crowning moment was caught on camera, and after he shared the video late last month with his massive TikTok following, it quickly went viral. The clip, which shows Willmore donning a sparkling gold gown and a white sash, now has 3.6 million views and more than 765,000 likes.
When asked about his reaction to being crowned homecoming queen, he told KOMU-TV it was “literally a dream.”
“It showed that people actually did care about me,” Willmore, 18, said. “It was the final stepping stone for me to be like, ‘People like me.’ I feel happy.”
While Willmore did get many words of encouragement after he posted his video on social media, not everyone was supportive.
“Online, I did get some hate. After I won, my TikTok account was reported and banned for a couple days,” he said.
TikTok did not immediately send a response to NBC News’ request for comment regarding why Willmore’s account was temporarily suspended.
Willmore, who now has 1.1 million TikTok followers, garnered popularity on the social media platform by sharing videos centered on his unique style. His most popular video, which has over 18 million views, shows him dancing in a bright yellow checkered blazer and shorts — reminiscent of Cher Horowitz’s most notable outfit from 1995 cult film “Clueless” — and noting that the ensemble got him a dress code violation at school.
With his new platform and historical crowning, Willmore and a group of students are now pushing to change their school’s dress code. Willmore said teachers decide what is appropriate and that he has felt targeted due to his unique style.
“They are still at the beginning stages, but Rock Bridge hopes to have a revised dress code by the end of the school year and before Zachary graduates.” Michelle Baumstark, a spokesperson for Columbia Public Schools, told KOMU-TV.
In an interview with NBC News Wednesday evening, Willmore, who identifies as gay, shared a message for LGBTQ students and other young people who may be hesitant to show their true colors.
“I really want to show that rebellion can spark change in a lot of ways,” he said. “I really want to inspire people to dress the way that they want to; it’s the most genuine way to express individuality.”
Willmore is part of a growing number of LGBTQ high school students who are making headlines for breaking down barriers and defying traditional gender boundaries. In April, an Ohio high school elected a lesbian couple as prom king and queen, and in September, a transgender teen was crowned her Florida high school’s first trans homecoming queen.
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Original Article: Missouri high school crowns its first male homecoming queen (msn.com)
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She/He/It is ugly and this stunt makes me throw up! I wish it was on she/he/it!
And the other students cheered!!!!
Guess i need to start cheering too …. there’s been several instances of real females losing out to transgenders in beauty pageants and high school homecomings, proms, etc.
I didn’t know real females enjoyed losing to males wearing makeup and lipstick. lol lol lol
“America’s youth”…… always cheering the absurd!!!!
lol lol
I wouldn’t want to be his king.
SICK WORLD WITH SICK FREAKS! Wait until Jesus comes back, sooner than we think! Don’t believe me? Too darn bad. Guess where they’ll end up!
Don’t forget all of the sick freak students who cheered!!!
-The purpose of education is for teachers is to impart knowledge about the core “employable” subject matter they are teaching.
-Some countries (like China, etc) are teaching exclusively core “employable” subject matter.
-Unfortunately, other countries (like the U.S.) are wasting “employable” subject matter time, teaching “non-employable” subjective information (like there are 112 genders, etc).
-Countries that prioritize core “employable” subject matter, will always have a higher percentage of academically “employable” students.
-6/16/19 – “The male and female bodies take different route when developing as the two genders add more years to their ages. This is because of the hormones that are being being excreted, aiding development and altering changes in the physical, emotional and sexual well being of the body. Physically, most men are bigger and taller than women.”
-“Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital and its current Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, said that transgenderism is a “mental disorder” that merits treatment, that sex change is “biologically impossible,” and that people who promote sexual reassignment surgery are collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder.”
-“’Sex change’ is biologically impossible,” said McHugh. “People who undergo sex-reassignment surgery do not change from men to women or vice versa.
Rather, they become feminized men or masculinized women.”
-“Claiming that this is civil-rights matter and encouraging surgical intervention is in reality to collaborate with and promote a mental disorder.”
-It is IMPOSSIBLE to turn a man into a woman. Or a woman into a man. No physician is God. Teaching one sex to be compassionate toward the other is good. Teaching one sex to become the other sex is a MENTAL DISORDER.
Just go, s to show that there is more SICK people out their other than Biden .
This is so sick and weird. Makes me want to throw up. I think I would pull my kids out of that school.
I’ve already commented, but I have (we all have ) to remember…’ LOVE THE SINNER, HATE THE SIN’. I pray that gay people ( my brother is one)would turn from their sin, ask for forgiveness, and receive Jesus in their life and heart, to be their Lord and Savior, so that they would go to heaven. This is true and real, and no one knows when their last minute on earth will be.