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 Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 4:16 pm
 This weekend coming up is the pride parade in TO.
Can't wait to go! Allll of my lesbian/bi friends are goin. It'll be my first Pride, should be funfunfun.
So this has nothing to do with Sailor Moon, ah well XD
Anyone gone to a pride parade? Or been involved in the day of silence?
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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:04 am
X3 figures it would be a weekend im not there XP
XD i work the weekend though so maybe i'll just hang out with the gay guy at work lmao
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 2:07 pm
'Fraid not, since I'm straight and live wayyyyyy south. But I hope you and your friends have fun! ^_^
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Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 9:46 am
I actually had never heard of the Day of Silence until recently. I was sent to private/lutheran schools all my life (even in college *sigh*). My best friend went to public school though and she told me about it (a rough overview?) I thought it was really interesting and it annoys me that my high school was so... conservative and closed minded.
What is a pride parade?
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Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 10:08 pm
I would of gone to a pride parade, but I got sick and couldn't go. ; ;
Call me weird, but I refused to take part of day of silence.
I say it should be day of loud screaming when speaking. XDDDD
"How are you today-"
"FREAKIN' DANDY~ D<"
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 6:00 pm
Nariana 'Fraid not, since I'm straight and live wayyyyyy south. But I hope you and your friends have fun! ^_^ You don't neccesarily have to be gay or even bi curious to participate in the parade OR the day of silence. You do it to support gay rights and to show that you ARE an accepting person and don't just blindly hate what you don't know. I did a day of silence my freshman year (the only year we did it for some reason @_@) and plenty of my friends who were straight dudes participated - in fact, a few of them were even borderline homophobic and yet they still joined in to show that they ARE willing to accept gays. It was an interesting day ... I hope you have fun ~ ~
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 12:52 pm
Yoru-chan nya Nariana 'Fraid not, since I'm straight and live wayyyyyy south. But I hope you and your friends have fun! ^_^ You don't neccesarily have to be gay or even bi curious to participate in the parade OR the day of silence. You do it to support gay rights and to show that you ARE an accepting person and don't just blindly hate what you don't know. I did a day of silence my freshman year (the only year we did it for some reason @_@) and plenty of my friends who were straight dudes participated - in fact, a few of them were even borderline homophobic and yet they still joined in to show that they ARE willing to accept gays. It was an interesting day ... I hope you have fun ~ ~ Oh! I thought the parade wasn't for straight people to attend. Tells me how much I know then. D: I've never heard of Day of Silence at all, so phoo. I don't know what you're talking about, I'm afraid. >_>
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 12:44 pm
"The National Day of Silence brings attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment in schools. Each year the event has grown, now with hundreds of thousands of students coming together to encourage schools and classmates to address the problem of anti-LGBT behavior."
Essentially its a day for all people who support gays and trans to stay silent. They don't talk for the entire day, to get attention from the officials in the schools. The goal is to get the school to acknowledge that harassment for sexual orientation is wrong.
Most not only stay silent, but go to school dressed in rainbow and other pro-homosexual clothing.
"2007 national survey found that 9/10 LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans) students report verbal, sexual, or physical harassment at school and more that 30% report missing at least a day.
The Day of Silence is a call to action. Students use this day as a means of achieving an "ask". As ask is a very specific action that calls for a change in school policies, claimate and culture to achieve a larger goal of safe schools for all regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression. Some examples of an as include: adding sexual orientation and gender identity/expression in your school's non-discrimination or anti-harassment policy, or training teachers to respond effectively to antu LGBT bullying, harassment, and name-calling."
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Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 10:20 am
Sailor Chiron Essentially its a day for all people who support gays and trans to stay silent. They don't talk for the entire day, to get attention from the officials in the schools. The goal is to get the school to acknowledge that harassment for sexual orientation is wrong.
Most not only stay silent, but go to school dressed in rainbow and other pro-homosexual clothing. That sounds cool 3nodding I do have a question though, what if the person is called on in class or something like that? Do they still keep silent?
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Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:42 pm
That's a very good question. I didn't know anything about this. Very interesting. 3nodding
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Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 7:22 am
Nariana That's a very good question. I didn't know anything about this. Very interesting. 3nodding
I like to ask questions (otherwise, how would you learn anything?) But my professors in college would feel disheartened whenever I would ask them a "Why?" question since they never had an answer...but I wanted to know! Why is their discrimination? What is the point? Why can't people get along? Why??
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