Betsy Lane High School doesn't include any reference to their senior starting point guard
Dalton Maldonado made headlines last year after he decided to
come out to his teammates during a basketball tournament. An opposing team had been yelling "faggot" at him and in a moment of anger and frustration, he went in the locker room and confided in his coaches and teammates—yes, he was gay. The team rallied around him and finished the tournament. Maldonado said he was surprised by the extent of their acceptance and support.
Apparently the administrators at his high school weren't so accepting and supportive. Dalton finally got a copy of his high school yearbook and was shocked to see they didn't include any information about him on the team's page:
Betsy Layne High School in rural Kentucky this year had a two-page yearbook spread that featured all of the seniors on the boys basketball team. Except, one senior was left out of the tribute: Dalton Maldonado, the team's starting point guard who came out publicly as gay a couple months ago.
This is the latest slap in the face of Maldonado and the entire LGBT community by a high school administration that simply won't accept that one of its star athletes is gay and was harassed for his sexual orientation by an opposing basketball team last December. The school's yearbook has omitted its starting senior point guard from the senior boys basketball tribute page in the yearbook, a deeply insulting blow to an athlete who has contributed to his school.
No mention whatsoever of the senior starting point guard on the team. Betsy Lane High School administrators owe Dalton an explanation and an apology. You can read more about Dalton Maldonado and the struggles he's faced coming out in a rural community at
Outsports.com.