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Post by EvenInDeath46 on Sept 5, 2007 17:43:48 GMT
[glow=red]EvenInDeath46[/glow] - I hope you and your cousin get along better soon, it just sounds like he's having a really hard time coming to terms with himself. Yeah, we are getting along better now. We spent some time together this summer, like camping in New York, for example. He still annoys me sometimes though, but at least we're talking to each other again. We don't talk about his homosexuality in person though. Not yet, anyways.
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Post by MissKitty on Sept 7, 2007 5:32:25 GMT
LESBIAN SEAGULL!!!!!!! Hehehehehehehehehehe! Just had to be completely random and very, very insane right there and then
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Post by mrbreathe on Sept 21, 2007 22:04:48 GMT
^^ Haha, is there really a lesbian seasgull??? And also on related to the topic of animal sexuality, my old dog (rip) was bisexual... JUst thought I'd add that in...
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Post by MissKitty on Oct 17, 2007 0:07:16 GMT
^Ha, my dog is bisexual.
Oh my, I must say that my girlfriend is the most amazing woman in the world! I love her to pieces and cant wait till she gets home from the farm so that I can cuddle her again and love her!
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Post by EvenInDeath46 on Dec 7, 2007 23:54:05 GMT
I found an interesting article in my school newspaper that may interest people who post frequently in this thread:
Gay-Straight Alliance Returns After Three Year-Absence
By: Olivia Thrall
The acronym GSA may seem unfamiliar to some WHS students, being that the organization has been absent from the school for three years now, after vanishing without an administrator to advise it. The Gay-Straight Alliance, however, has returned and is more active than ever.
The new school psychologist, Mr. Steven Myers, is the new advisor of the group and said he is excited to be a part of it.
"The purpose is to raise awareness, and to provide a safe, comfortable place for anyone who wants to be there, regardless of their sexuality," Myers said.
Myers also explained that WHS junior Jon Bodi has taken over the leadership role within the student members of the group.
Bodi said that after hearing about acts of violence towards students all over the world because of their sexuality, "it would really kill me to know that someone here could be going through the same thing without help."
The GSA is open to anyone and everyone is encouraged to learn more about it.
"We want to end homophobia by educating people," Bodi explained, "while giving everyone a safe place to ask questions and get answers, whether they're going through it or not."
The GSA has only had two meeting so far, but is already planning activities for the future. Fundraisers will be in the works soon, and the money collected will be donated to foundations to help defeat AIDS.
One hundred eleven students have already committed to the cause and club, which gives the GSA plenty of members to carry out activities in the future. The club meets every other Wednesday in the cafeteria and is more than open to accepting new members.
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Post by unicorn07 on Dec 8, 2007 1:02:07 GMT
WOW its great that many students are wanting/will be participating in the GSA!!! Its always nice to see students wanting to help fellow students and that the school is allowing it, I know some schools have doubts and worries of such organizations.
I hope the community is just as open!
Its nice to read that article, since often we hear about how negative people can be to gays. Thanks for sharing!!
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Post by EvenInDeath46 on Dec 8, 2007 1:11:12 GMT
I think that it's cool that so many students are a part of this organization. However, I think that is still a small number of students compared to the whole school population. I still hear people say negative things about people or make fun of others who are different from them whether they are truly gay or not.
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Post by stratlady on Dec 8, 2007 1:29:18 GMT
^^Pple will always say bad stuff about minorities, no matter what. That's a given. I don't believe that any activist group will ever change that. At some point, everybody needs to make this change within themselves.
On a sidenote, not everybody likes to join these kind of groups. So obviously, there are pple outside of these who have nothing against gays.
And personally, I don't like the word "homophobic". A phobia is a disorder, and I highly doubt that you can diagnose many pple with it (if you could, it'd be in the DSM). Terms refering to disorders should be left for professional usage.
The add on top says "children's book for gays and lesbians."
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Post by unicorn07 on Dec 8, 2007 2:28:06 GMT
Lets remember though, most people who tease and say bad things to others, usually means they are insecure with themselves! LOL at the ad, I think what they mean is books that deal with same sex families. You know some schools tried to ban a book that dealt with a true story of these two male penguins who raised a baby penguin? Some groups thought it promoted homosexuality. These days I just have to laugh at some of the things people say promotes homosexuality. I just have to say this, but as someone who was raised in a family where homosexuality is OKAY it amazes me at what some of the people say in this world when it comes to homosexuality, I mean when people ask me questions about having gays in the family I'm just utterly dumbstruck! I mean I've had people ask me is it weird that so-and-so is gay ... uh no, duh. geez. I'm blabbering now LOL
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Post by EvenInDeath46 on Dec 8, 2007 2:38:15 GMT
^ I think that I heard about the story of those two gay penguins. Lol. Some schools actually tried to ban books that mention the penguins? That's really stupid. I have a gay cousin, but not that many people know about it yet. I think his family already knows, but he doesn't want everyone else to know yet. I don't think that his family addresses that he is gay though, because he pretends that he is straight. Actually, he came with me and some friends to an Evanescence concert and two girls randomly walked up to him and asked if he is gay, based on his appearance, I'm assuming. He told them no and they just walked away. It was weird and awkward. He was lying though, and I'm not the only one who knew his secret. My friends picked up on it as well. Anyways, I can't see the advertisement. Where is it?
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Post by imaginarywhisper on Feb 28, 2008 1:29:14 GMT
Yeah, that's super amazing compared to the GSA at my school. We have about five regular members, and on a good day [aka maybe once a month] we have about twelve. The worst part is that of the five regulars, only two of those are officers. And we have four officers.
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Post by MissKitty on Apr 20, 2008 21:29:58 GMT
I lost my lesbian cat...... Come on guys, whats with all the dead topics!? Ya gotta keep posting or else FoI is gonna die!
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Post by EvenInDeath46 on Jul 24, 2008 23:21:00 GMT
I'm posting another article to give us some food for thought. Opinions on the matter are always welcomed! Young, Gay and MurderedKids are coming out younger, but are schools ready to handle the complex issues of identity and sexuality? For Larry King, the question had tragic implications. Teenage TragedyA 15-year-old boy told family and friends he was gay. He dressed flamboyantly; he hit on a classmate. His murder made clear that issues of sexuality, at such a young age, can have heartbreaking consequences.At 15, Lawrence King was small—5 feet 1 inch—but very hard to miss. In January, he started to show up for class at Oxnard, Calif.'s E. O. Green Junior High School decked out in women's accessories. On some days, he would slick up his curly hair in a Prince-like bouffant. Sometimes he'd paint his fingernails hot pink and dab glitter or white foundation on his cheeks. "He wore makeup better than I did," says Marissa Moreno, 13, one of his classmates. He bought a pair of stilettos at Target, and he couldn't have been prouder if he had on a varsity football jersey. He thought nothing of chasing the boys around the school in them, teetering as he ran. But on the morning of Feb. 12, Larry left his glitter and his heels at home. He came to school dressed like any other boy: tennis shoes, baggy pants, a loose sweater over a collared shirt. He seemed unhappy about something. He hadn't slept much the night before, and he told one school employee that he threw up his breakfast that morning, which he sometimes did because he obsessed over his weight. But this was different. One student noticed that as Larry walked across the quad, he kept looking back nervously over his shoulder before he slipped into his first-period English class. The teacher, Dawn Boldrin, told the students to collect their belongings, and then marched them to a nearby computer lab, so they could type out their papers on World War II. Larry found a seat in the middle of the room. Behind him, Brandon McInerney pulled up a chair. Brandon, 14, wasn't working on his paper, because he told Mrs. Boldrin he'd finished it. Instead, he opened a history book and started to read. Or at least he pretended to. "He kept looking over at Larry," says a student who was in the class that morning. "He'd look at the book and look at Larry, and look at the book and look at Larry." At 8:30 a.m., a half hour into class, Brandon quietly stood up. Then, without anyone's noticing, he removed a handgun that he had somehow sneaked to school, aimed it at Larry's head, and fired a single shot. Boldrin, who was across the room looking at another student's work, spun around. "Brandon, what the hell are you doing!" she screamed. Brandon fired at Larry a second time, tossed the gun on the ground and calmly walked through the classroom door. Police arrested him within seven minutes, a few blocks from school. Larry was rushed to the hospital, where he died two days later of brain injuries. The Larry King shooting became the most prominent gay-bias crime since the murder of Matthew Shepard 10 years ago. But despite all the attention and outrage, the reason Larry died isn't as clear-cut as many people think. California's Supreme Court has just legalized gay marriage. There are gay characters on popular TV shows such as "Gossip Girl" and "Ugly Betty," and no one seems to notice. Kids like Larry are so comfortable with the concept of being openly gay that they are coming out younger and younger. One study found that the average age when kids self-identify as gay has tumbled to 13.4; their parents usually find out a year later. What you might call "the shrinking closet" is arguably a major factor in Larry's death. Even as homosexuality has become more accepted, the prospect of being openly gay in middle school raises a troubling set of issues. Kids may want to express who they are, but they are playing grown-up without fully knowing what that means. At the same time, teachers and parents are often uncomfortable dealing with sexual issues in children so young. Schools are caught in between. How do you protect legitimate, personal expression while preventing inappropriate, sometimes harmful, behavior? Larry King was, admittedly, a problematical test case: he was a troubled child who flaunted his sexuality and wielded it like a weapon—it was often his first line of defense. But his story sheds light on the difficulty of defining the limits of tolerance. As E. O. Green found, finding that balance presents an enormous challenge. Larry's life was hard from the beginning. His biological mother was a drug user; his father wasn't in the picture. When Greg and Dawn King took him in at age 2, the family was told he wasn't being fed regularly. Early on, a speech impediment made Larry difficult to understand, and he repeated first grade because he had trouble reading. He was a gentle child who loved nature and crocheting, but he also acted out from an early age. "We couldn't take him to the grocery store without him shoplifting," Greg says. "We couldn't get him to clean up his room. We sent him upstairs—he'd get a screwdriver and poke holes in the walls." He was prescribed ADHD medication, and Greg says Larry was diagnosed with reactive attachment disorder, a rare condition in which children never fully bond with their caregivers or parents. Source: www.newsweek.com/id/147790>1=43002
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Post by Robynn on Jul 25, 2008 6:28:28 GMT
This is why the religious right need to learn tolerance and teach tolerance. They may not agree with the life, but God doesn't condone going and killing anyone for "His" work, anywhere. Really..."I kill you in the name of God" just doesn't sound right to anyone but bigots.
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Post by chocolate2008 on Aug 9, 2008 2:23:04 GMT
Lesbian seagull here to party!
Man it is quiet around here lately...
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