Constance McMillen, A hero or a zero?

Here is an excerpt from an article i came across on.

"Constance McMillen, the heroic teen who successfully sued her Mississippi high school after school officials canceled the prom rather than let her bring her girlfriend and wear a tux, will be welcomed with a reception at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s charter school for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)."

You can read the full story here. http://www.lgbtpov.com/tag/constance-mcmillen/.

Lets get right to it shall we? The problem i have of this trivial bullshit is Constance McMillen is portrayed as heroic. "The heroic teen". Why is she a hero i ask? First lets define the word hero;

Hero: [1] hero (male) and heroine (female) came to refer to characters who, in the face of danger and adversity or from a position of weakness, display courage and the will for self sacrifice – that is, heroism – for some greater good, originally of martial courage or excellence but extended to more general moral excellence.

Now i do not spit in the face of her endeavor, but nothing she is doing is in the least bit heroic. This is more of a teen angst issue then a social dilemma. I mean really, the school board is melodramatic and homophobic yes. But to sue the pants off the school because you could not take your same sex partner to the prom is just as extreme. Heroic is what are troops over seas are doing. Heroic is the story of lesser men/women beating the odds and coming out greater men/women. Heroic is me stopping armor piercing rounds with nothing but the tip of my tongue and a plastic salad fork. I watched a clip from the Ellen show with Constance as a guest. At the end of said clip, Ellen presents a check for Thirty THOUSAND dollars for her college fund from some charity site. So all i have to do is bring my sexy Asian man slave to a prom, get booted out and then sue the school for a ridiculous sum of cash then retire to Bora Bora where i live out the rest of my homo-sensual life being fed strawberries while watching re-runs of Will & Grace.

Constance is hardly a good role model for anybody. I believe maybe just MAYBE it was all about the pain of being discriminated against. But she must have fallen in love with the attention. Maybe I'm just grasping for straws because I'm irked at her being called a heroine or maybe i have a point and her story is only worth the waste of media attention she has received.