CONSTANCE McMillen, an 18-year-old lesbian student at a US school who fought for the right to take her girlfriend to her prom, said she was one of only seven students to show up at a private party chaperoned by school officials last Friday night.

A lesbian high school student embroiled in a legal flap over her high school’s prom policy has received a 30,000 dollar (€22,000) scholarship on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.