Wal-Mart Refuses to Write 'Gay' on Promposal Cake for Gay/Straight BFFs

A Las Vegas Wal-Mart decided they could make their own corporate rules by denying to write the word "gay" on a cake to celebrate a publicized prom date between two best friends; one gay and one straight, local Fox affiliate KVVU reports.

When Jacob Lescenski, who is straight, asked his gay best friend Anthony Martinez to the Desert Oasis High School prom in Las Vegas last month, an image documenting the "promposal" posted on social media went viral across the Internet and gained the attention of the national media.

Posed next to a banner that read "You're hella gay, I'm hella str8. But you're like my brother. So be my d8?" the photo posted on Martinez's Twitter account received over two thousand favorites and gain the attention of the national media.

Yet, despite their newfound celebrity, when Martinez's aunt Jennifer Sandoval went to a local Wal-Mart to buy a cake for the friends, a store associate refused to write the word "gay" on the cake, citing a "store policy" against the word on cakes. A store supervisor, who was called in by Sandoval, backed up the associate's claim.

"Supervisor takes my phone, looks at it, and was like stuck for a minute, and she was like, 'OK, I'm sorry, we can't use this,'" Sandoval said. "And then I said, 'I'm going to ask you what I asked her because you're the supervisor. Why can't I use this? I don't understand. It's one word. It's gay.'"

Sandoval finally settled on a cake that read, "You matter, prom kings."

After being contacted by KVVU news station, a spokesman for Wal-Mart said that nowhere in the store's policy does it say that the word "gay" can't be written on a cake. A store manager is set to make matters right.

See the "You matter, prom kings" cake along with a chronicle of the best friends' prom date on this Teen Vogue video.