Paul Guilbert, a 17-year-old avowed homosexual, was not allowed to take his friend Eddie Miskovich to his prom at Cumberland High School in Rhode Island last month. So Thursday night, Boston's Committee for Gay Youth feted Paul and Miskovich, 22, at a "Gay. Prom" in a downtown Boston bar. About 100 young men attended.

Paul had to abandon his fight because he is a minor and his parents objected. But, Paul promised, "I plan to do the same thing next

year. If they refuse me, I will be 18 and this time I'll take it all the way in the courts."

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