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ToTheCeilingFan · 9th Apr 2011, 12:45 PM

It's next Friday. Are you going to be silent? Does your school or workplace support day of silence?
(My apologies if there's another thread like this, I did a search and didn't turn up anything.)

RaRa · 9th Apr 2011, 12:53 PM

Hmm..Maybe ill do it. Everytime someone aaks what im doing..ill just use my Rebecca blacks soundbard saying: "we we we so excited" For equality! Fuck yeah!

Wolfy · 9th Apr 2011, 12:56 PM

I had my teacher order me a wrist band. So, yup.

roborama · 9th Apr 2011, 12:58 PM

definitly doing it, its a pretty big thing at our school.. making posters as we speak and crying my eyes out...

Flyers2011 · 9th Apr 2011, 02:19 PM

I doubt anyone knows what that is at my high school lol. Well, maybe a couple. We would never celebrate it though. Too small and backwoodsy. I can't really celebrate it because I have to talk in most of my classes.

But I'll do something to commemorate it, what I don't know, but I'll figure it out.

9th Apr 2011, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Flyers2011

I doubt anyone knows what that is at my high school lol. Well, maybe a couple. We would never celebrate it though. Too small and backwoodsy. I can't really celebrate it because I have to talk in most of my classes.

But I'll do something to commemorate it, what I don't know, but I'll figure it out.

I live in Ohio too, and many people know about it at our school and support it.

There's also a teacher who last year handed out packets on why homosexuality is a sin. Maybe this year he will give me one and I will be able to curse him out.

Cursing out for equality.

Flyers2011 · 9th Apr 2011, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Flyers2011

I doubt anyone knows what that is at my high school lol. Well, maybe a couple. We would never celebrate it though. Too small and backwoodsy. I can't really celebrate it because I have to talk in most of my classes.

But I'll do something to commemorate it, what I don't know, but I'll figure it out.

I live in Ohio too, and many people know about it at our school and support it.

There's also a teacher who last year handed out packets on why homosexuality is a sin. Maybe this year he will give me one and I will be able to curse him out.

Cursing out for equality.

My school's pretty small and filled with farmer's kids. You say "Matthew Shepard" and they say "Who?"

I would definitely cuss him out. . . But try not to get expelled lol. No one would want that.

TheDarkerPoet · 9th Apr 2011, 02:30 PM

My school's GSA is holding a Day Of Silence in which those who want to participate sign up and are given a small symbol so that teachers and students know we are going to be silent for a full that day. It will be my first time doing this. Wondering how it'll go for me, seeing as I am pretty much out in the open at my school.

Nazo · 9th Apr 2011, 03:10 PM

Our SADD did something like this for drunk driving awareness two years ago (We had our faces painted like skeletons, had our death story taped to our shirts, and had to keep quiet), but the program has died out since. It seems like they would be the ones at my school to organize something like the symbols that people wear. Since we don't have one, there is a Facebook event that was sent out by one of my friends about this. A few people are doing it (some REALLY unexpected) but I'm not sure I could do it... I have stuff I have to talk in, as much as I would like to.

**Owen** · 9th Apr 2011, 05:47 PM

I'll be doing it. My university's GLBT club is actually having a concert the night before (called the "Night of Noise") to raise awareness (and money for the Mathew Shepard Foundation), and local bands are going to be playing. Should be a good time.

MyDecember · 9th Apr 2011, 07:13 PM

I wont be doing it. Never done it and don't plan on it.

theJosephDean · 9th Apr 2011, 08:26 PM

Ugh, I love participating in the Day of Silence, but I won't be able to this Friday. I have like two meetings, and a club dinner/picnic/meeting-thing to go to. As Vice President, I have to be able to speak >_<

thedreamwatch · 9th Apr 2011, 09:58 PM

There's a "Break the Silence" march in Madison that day. We meet up in silence and then "break" it by marching to the capitol building and being super awesome. If anyone is in Wisconsin, you should come! Everyone is meeting at the university!

9th Apr 2011, 12:45 PM	#1
ToTheCeilingFan crazed Full Member Gender: let's just say...grrrl Orientation: as straight as a side view of Christina Aguilera Out Status: completely out as lesbian, not out at all as GQ Location: Somewhere over the rainbow... Age: 18 Posts: 185 Join Date: Dec 2010	Day of Silence It's next Friday. Are you going to be silent? Does your school or workplace support day of silence? (My apologies if there's another thread like this, I did a search and didn't turn up anything.) __________________ "Abercrombie isn't about helping people. It's about playing rugby with your best buds in a fresh green field, only you both forgot your clothes."

9th Apr 2011, 12:53 PM	#2
RaRa We we we so excited Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: A few people Location: Los Angeles, CA Age: 21 Posts: 7,439 Join Date: Nov 2008	Re: Day of Silence Hmm..Maybe ill do it. Everytime someone aaks what im doing..ill just use my Rebecca blacks soundbard saying: "we we we so excited" For equality! Fuck yeah! __________________ Do you think about me now and then? Do you think about me now and then? Oh now I'm comin' home again Maybe we can start again

9th Apr 2011, 12:56 PM	#3
Wolfy Member Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: Gay FtM Out Status: Out to everyone Age: 15 Posts: 90 Join Date: Mar 2011	Re: Day of Silence I had my teacher order me a wrist band. So, yup.

9th Apr 2011, 12:58 PM	#4
roborama EC's Teenage Grandma Full Member Gender: Female Orientation: Fluid Out Status: Out to everyone Location: MA Age: 17 Posts: 397 Join Date: Jan 2011	Re: Day of Silence definitly doing it, its a pretty big thing at our school.. making posters as we speak and crying my eyes out... __________________ Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. Harvey Fierstein

9th Apr 2011, 02:19 PM	#5
Flyers2011 EC Addict Full Member Gender: Female Orientation: Gay Out Status: Everyone. And I mean EVERYONE. Location: O-H-I-O! Posts: 886 Join Date: Sep 2010	Re: Day of Silence I doubt anyone knows what that is at my high school lol. Well, maybe a couple. We would never celebrate it though. Too small and backwoodsy. I can't really celebrate it because I have to talk in most of my classes. But I'll do something to commemorate it, what I don't know, but I'll figure it out. __________________ "We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream, and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death."- Francis Bacon

9th Apr 2011, 02:30 PM	#8
TheDarkerPoet EC's Emotional Stud Full Member Gender: Oh, whatever. Orientation: Queer Out Status: Out like a G6 Location: New York Age: 16 Posts: 921 Join Date: Feb 2011	Re: Day of Silence My school's GSA is holding a Day Of Silence in which those who want to participate sign up and are given a small symbol so that teachers and students know we are going to be silent for a full that day. It will be my first time doing this. Wondering how it'll go for me, seeing as I am pretty much out in the open at my school. __________________ "No one is of no consequence." - Anakin Skywalker

9th Apr 2011, 03:10 PM	#9
Nazo Janis Ian's Lesbian Crush Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Facebook, not hiding at college Location: Michigan Age: 19 Posts: 2,070 Join Date: Dec 2010	Re: Day of Silence Our SADD did something like this for drunk driving awareness two years ago (We had our faces painted like skeletons, had our death story taped to our shirts, and had to keep quiet), but the program has died out since. It seems like they would be the ones at my school to organize something like the symbols that people wear. Since we don't have one, there is a Facebook event that was sent out by one of my friends about this. A few people are doing it (some REALLY unexpected) but I'm not sure I could do it... I have stuff I have to talk in, as much as I would like to. __________________ are you feeling like a prisoner are you living life the way you want giving time to ones you love are you giving time to who you are

9th Apr 2011, 05:47 PM	#10
Owen Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult EC Admin Gender: Agendered dude Orientation: Panromantic androsexual Out Status: Everyone and their mother Location: Massachusetts, USA Age: 21 Posts: 2,872 Join Date: Jul 2007	Re: Day of Silence I'll be doing it. My university's GLBT club is actually having a concert the night before (called the "Night of Noise") to raise awareness (and money for the Mathew Shepard Foundation), and local bands are going to be playing. Should be a good time. __________________ "Stand firm for what you believe in, until and unless logic and experience prove you wrong. Remember, when the emperor looks naked, the emperor is naked. The truth and a lie are not sort of the same thing. And there is no aspect, no facet, no moment of life that can't be improved with pizza." -Daria Morgendorffer

9th Apr 2011, 07:13 PM	#11
MyDecember I pause your thread! Regular Member Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: All but family Location: Florida Age: 23 Posts: 365 Join Date: Jan 2011	Re: Day of Silence I wont be doing it. Never done it and don't plan on it. __________________ This is my simple religion: There is no need for temples, there is no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is the temple;the philosophy is loving kindness and compassion --The XIVth Dalai Lama

9th Apr 2011, 08:26 PM	#12
theJosephDean Nothing but the rain. Full Member Gender: 男 Male Orientation: Kinsey 5 Out Status: Om nom nom. Location: Johnson City, TN Age: 20 Posts: 1,633 Join Date: Jun 2010	Re: Day of Silence Ugh, I love participating in the Day of Silence, but I won't be able to this Friday. I have like two meetings, and a club dinner/picnic/meeting-thing to go to. As Vice President, I have to be able to speak >_< __________________ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

9th Apr 2011, 09:58 PM	#13
thedreamwatch Maximum Ridiculosity Full Member Gender: Female Orientation: Kinsey 5. So, pretty gay. Out Status: Out to everyone Location: Wisconsin Age: 22 Posts: 1,274 Join Date: Jan 2011	Re: Day of Silence There's a "Break the Silence" march in Madison that day. We meet up in silence and then "break" it by marching to the capitol building and being super awesome. If anyone is in Wisconsin, you should come! Everyone is meeting at the university! __________________ "I came out laughing, I came out screaming, I came out dancing..." - T&S

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