Comments on: Why Your Kid Isn’t Talking To You Today

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:23:07 +0000

Day of SILENCE??? How is silence going to help anything? Sitting around like a bunch of pouty deaf-mutes isn’t going to do anything to advance gay rights. We don’t need silence, we need words, ideas, debates. This is just dumb, though not quite as dumb as the “calling in gay to work” fiasco back in December.

Don’t be silent – be loud, make some noise, make yourself heard.

By: John from England(used to be just John but there are other John's)

John from England(used to be just John but there are other John's) — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:06:40 +0000

@Christopher Broen:

So….

A) Tell her

B) Tell Queerty

and

C) Get her horrid jugdgemetal outlook on life…GONE.

By: Christopher Broen

Christopher Broen — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:23:12 +0000

I’m not sure if anyone is aware but… the main image being used for this story is of a girl wearing a Pro-Life sign over her mouth. It was for the Pro-Life Day of Silence. What’s more is I know her, she’s uber-christian, and would be uber-pissed if she ever found her picture on a gay website. Just a heads-up.

By: Lika Starr

Lika Starr — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:02:19 +0000

@Sarah:

Sarah, if you or anyone else does have this info or can point me in the right direction please do get in touch. I have an idea that I would like to work on to help spread awareness on just how dangerous homophobia can really be. It would be great if some of the research has already been done.

If anyone wants to get in touch, participate or learn more about this I’ve made a post on my blog. You can find info here:

http://likastarr.com/homophobi.....rt-project

By: CONFESSIONS OF A BAD BOY

CONFESSIONS OF A BAD BOY — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:35:41 +0000

While I respect all of those who participate in this, I don’t know if I believe in the whole Day of Silence agenda. My mouth is one of my gifts, and as a proud member of the gay community, I will not be shutting the fuck up or organize to be silenced. Being silent in solidarity of the gay movement is BS. This is like the Jews being silent in solidarity for being Jewish during the holocaust.

By: babylon99

babylon99 — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:03:36 +0000

I soooooooo would have done it but I forgot. There was no press about it until it was over…

By: CaLi_BoY

CaLi_BoY — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:58:05 +0000

@stevenelliot: lol and how are are you? if you dont mind me asking…

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:45:27 +0000

@Lika Starr: I know someone who *may* have it. We did a project with it in school a few months back. I’m not sure if we still have the files. (The project we did was a crashing failure, though. Parents were called and our GSA was nearly shut down because some idiots got offended by us having posters of people killed for being LGBT.)

By: Carsen Tyler

Carsen Tyler — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:18:32 +0000

Been doing DOS since I was an 8th grader. Our peers used to say no one would notice a group of kids being silent. But when I got to High School, me and the rest of girls in our secret GSA (anime club), were considered smart by our peers. Our peers would depend on us to answer everything on the group pop quizzes (the teachers would ask a couple of questions if all were answered the whole class got an A). The teachers eventually had all the verbal tests on DOS. The rests of the kids then realized that we were silent and were faced to answer the questions themselves. They noticed us being quiet and took interest in why. Some girls were idiots and said we weren’t making a differenct. Others listened and called us a bunch of Fags…then their parents would call the archdiocese and I would get in trouble cuz the Arch would tell my parents what I planned. Others supported us. Then at the end of the day we end up with a bunch of Freshmen, shyly approaching us asking if there really were gay kids in out school.

It’s worth it.

By: stevenelliot

stevenelliot — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:56:21 +0000

I wish kids had a day of silence 24/7 365.

By: Brady

Brady — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:31:46 +0000

Great post. What angers me is the alternative “Day of Truth,” that takes place on Monday. I wrote about it on my blog, but basically the false promise of “change” is giving even more ammo for anti-gay bullies. Now they are armed with the false belief that gay kids are gay because they want to be, and they could just change if they wanted to. Pretty unbelievable power ploy by the anti-gay side. I guess kids are just collateral damage these days.

By: Lika Starr

Lika Starr — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:42:34 +0000

Great article :)

Does anyone know of a list that is kept and updated of all the LGBT people, adolescents and adults, that have been murdered or committed suicide as a result of homophobic intolerance?