This gay teen asked the straight captain of the football team to homecoming

Alexander Duarte has never gone to a school dance or party with a date, but this year he decided to ask his friend the football team captain Erick Pineda to the homecoming on national coming out day.

The both of theme do to valley high school in Santa Ana, California and several students and teachers helped to spring the big surprise on Pineda as we walked to lunch on campus. 

They lined a route directly in the face of them with a huge sign “ I know I’m GAY, but can I take you STRAIGHT 2 HOMECOMING ? “.

With Christina Perri's “a thousand years “ playing in the background

Here he comes the time for the big question and he said “YES”.

“It’s very important for me to be going to Homecoming with Alexander because I’m setting an example for not only my school, but also my community,” Pineda told Instinct magazine. “I was definitely excited to be asked to homecoming because I knew how important this was for my friend and seeing the support from the staff and students was amazing.”

“It all started as a joke. One day he said to me, Yo, take me to homecoming!’ so I knew that if I did it I would have to set the bar and be extra,” Duarte told the magazine.

“It was really important because I have never had a date to a dance and this is my senior year so something clicked inside and inspired me to actually ‘ask Erick’. For me, it was also about setting an example for others on how to go all out on their proposals and, more importantly, that it is ok for a brown boy to ask another dude.”

Duarte says that he and friends worked on the proposal for three weeks to prepare and spent 20 minutes just setting up the big event that day. Watch it below and try not to smile from ear to ear.