Queer proms and immigrant stories: Local radio producer defies the conventional - Tania Unzueta in Chicago

The art on the walls of Pilsen’s National Museum of Mexican Art glows in the low light of Christmas bulbs. The music is as mixed as the high schoolers having dance-offs to hip-hop and bachata.

A slow song comes on and two teenagers in the corner step gently together, one of them resting her chin on the other’s shoulder. Except at this prom, both dancers are girls.

Tania Unzueta, organizer of Queer Prom 2008, says some of the teens who identify with the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community take their partners to their own schools’ proms in addition to this event, but others feel uncomfortable.”*

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