"I've been targeted for almost my entire life. I've been out since 14 and being really, really active in school, in the community, I've definitely been targeted a lot, but I'm just taking it with a grain of salt, and they're going to think what they're going to think, do what they want to do, and we're just going to do our thing and keep our spirits high.''
Matt Pope, an openly-gay student who was voted Prom King of Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, Kansas. The family of anti-gay preacher Fred Phelps held a protest at the school and supporters of Pope are said to have far outnumbered the infamous "God Hates" group. (KCTV)






