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Salvador Martinez (left) smiles as Iealis Williams gets the giggles at their mock wedding at Galileo High School. |
They then learned how to correctly put on a condom using goggles that gave them a drunken view of things, and played a variety of games that promoted safer sex.
The school's annual "Love Fest" drew hundred of teens in the school's central courtyard.
While a federal appeals court in San Francisco only last week ruled that a California ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, Galileo students and staff said their fake teen weddings had nothing to do with that. The event, sponsored by the Gay Straight Alliance and the Wellness Center, tried to promote acceptance and tolerance at school and safe decisions in the intimate moments that could happen at that age.
At one table, health teacher Raina Meyers put goggles on students that made their vision slightly blurry, simulating a drunken state. She then told them to put a condom on a wooden penis.
Most of the students left air in the condom tip, which could lead to breakage, and that prompted an instructional rebuke from Meyers.
"You're pregnant!" Meyers told one girl who failed the drunk-goggle test, and to a boy, "You have gonorrhea."
A handful of students milled about at the safer sex exhibits, but the biggest draw was the wedding table, where students fidgeted as they waited for their nuptials.
They signed a photocopied marriage certificate and said a quick "I do" when a student officiant asked about taking the other person as spouse.
The marriage was sealed with optional, one-size-fits-all plastic gold bands.
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