“It made me feel like I actually belonged,” Evan Bialosuknia, 17, said after she was crowned. Evan Bialosuknia “made history,” as she wrote on Instagram, when she became her school’s first transgender homecoming queen. The 17-year-old said she didn’t know what to expect when she decided to run for homecoming queen at her school, Olympia High School, in Orlando, Florida. “I wanted to have that moment of glory,” she told WESH2, an NBC affiliate based in Orlando. Students not only supported her, but elected her to homecoming court and then crowned her queen last week. “It made me feel like I actually belonged,” Bialosuknia said. “Not just like a joke. Cause that was one of my fears. I was in bed one night like, ‘What if they were just doing this to laugh at me?’” She received her crown on the school’s football field alongside the homecoming king, whom she said was also supportive and made her feel “like any other girl.”
via nbcnews: Orlando school elects its first transgender homecoming queen
