Linus never even had to come out. As a sophomore, he took a boy—from another school, but a boy nonetheless—to the Junior Prom (having charmed his way into a ticket) and the only person at Frome High who even batted an eyelid was FHS’s very Christian front office secretary, who wrote a note to Linus’s parents, who in turn wrote a note back explaining in great detail how she and the school district would be sued if she ever tried to discriminate against their son again.
