Not a Good Time.......
to invest in red shirts. They’re taboo in many schools. Gay folk wear them to Disney World on special Gay Days. And if you wear one while shopping at Target, strangers will ask you for help.

But I have to give a little credit for honesty to ninth-grader Adam Perez wore a shiny University of North Carolina track suit. UNC's baby blue is another banned color because an area gang, the Surenos, favors it.

But they didn't get the chance to suspend Adam; he came in only to transfer out of Lincoln and into North High.

He said he wore the track suit, a Christmas gift, "so I could get everybody upset." He plans to wear blue every day at North. There is a certain rich pleasure, especially in adolescence, in getting everybody upset. I was never courageous enough to admit my motives........