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 Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:25 pm
It's weird that I ran across this thread now...because today I wore my rainbow armband and while people usually don't notice it this girl came up to me and said, "What is with all you hom's and the frickin' rainbow lately?!"
Thusly, after giving her a confused stare and walking away I took a deeper look around my school (I'm a senior now, we practically have our own hallways and everything) and I saw that the rainbow was indeed EVERYWHERE! A girl had a complete rainbow outfit with her arm around her girlfriend who was decked out in rainbow jewelry and the armband. Then as I was walking to Bio I ran into one of the Freshmen from my German class last year and he was wearing a literal rainbow shawl.
Just felt the need to report that...I keep seeing all these differnces between here and the lower 48...
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Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:42 pm
My old high school, despite its proximity to the KKK HQ, had three open homosexuals in it (2 have graduated) and of course there are a lot of younger people I dont know. But they were all fairly open and were relatively unharassed, of course Adam, who used to frequent gaia before college, had the ability to turn any anti-gay slur directed at him into an extremely good joke, most the time even the person who insulted him would laugh. Adam also wore a rainbow wrist band everyday.
My current college, despite its odd christian funding, has its own "gay pride" week where LGBT et al can set up booths and distribute, what I'm assuming, would be GSA type propaganda lol. You're also allowed to write proLGBT messages all over everything in sidewalk chalk, including the various campus buildings, and they do in fact fly the rainbow over the library for the whole week.
Don't think I won't use that as an oppertunity to distribute titanic masses of CPUSA pamphlets about LGBT oppression perpetuated by the forces of capital. But it pleases my heart to see it.
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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 5:23 pm
Twack Im closeted so i have to serously self sensor though i have "homosexual" in my binder its writen in chinese though, and my keys have shapries on them and i doubt any one noticed it only has Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet, in that order, on it so yah my own personal hidden things. *cringe* Ditto with the 'closeted.' I was caught kissing my girlfriend once and it got BAD - my mother nearly called the police - so I can't afford to ever have anything 'fishy' come up pertaining to homosexuality. I have a hidden folder of letters the aforementioned girlfriend has written me and a ring that she gave me that I can't wear in public (she has one, too, and I might forget to take it off and have it noticed... my mother's insane. She notices things like that.) It's self-censorship to the extreme. I empathize with anyone else in the same boat.. neutral
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 5:56 am
I remember when mom found my library of communist works.. The Communist Manifesto (with big hammer and sickle) along with tons of other books by Marx and Lenin. She was concerned at first, but not really mad. She still thinks we live in the McCartheyist era when the "Committee of Unamerican acitivities" will come down on us and make us have to move to Canada or perhaps NAZI Germany, where big brother is watching the fact that I am a due paying member of the Communist Party USA.
I don't really understand I guess how a parent could be *extremely* upset about their child's activities, but maybe that's just my mom being paranoid but forgiving. It just doesn't make sense to me.
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Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 5:20 am
For the longest time, I had always been concerned about what others thought of me, and I would try to shape myself to fit what I felt was what they wanted. A few years back, I just got fed up with that, and just did what I wanted to do, and wore what I wanted to wear.
Recently, however, I caught myself reverting back to my past methodologies of self-censoring. I have an outfit that I wear, consisting of a relatively tight pair of faded blue jeans that are ripped and frayed at the bottoms, and there's a hole on one knee (I love those jeans, and the wear is just that: from wear), two shirts (seen below in the links), and depending on the weather, either flip-flops or a white pair of tennis-shoes.
The shirts:
http://myspace-046.vo.llnwd.net/01215/64/01/1215551046_l.jpg I would wear that one on the outside, unbuttoned, sleeves rolled up just like in the picture.
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/TSHIRTS/FLO-101.jpg is the one I would wear under it OR this one:
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/TSHIRTS/TSP-109.jpg
Well, because of the fact that my hair, at its current length, looks ever-rustled and slightly shaggy (but still controlled), combined with the clothes, I got asked once if I was a stoner--which I'm not. I have never done drugs in my life, and I don't intend to.
This question got under my skin, however, and I stopped wearing the outfit, despite the fact that it's my favorite outfit; I was afraid of being mistaken for a stoner, and therefore looked down upon by others.
When I caught myself doing this, finally, I felt terrible! I was putting on an act, in a manner of speaking!
My point is: never be afraid to show who you are. If someone wants to think you're something you aren't or look down upon it, well, you know the truth and you aren't afraid to be your own person, and that makes you infinitely better than them.
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