<p>Hm, that's weird, I don't see his posts. I can't even tell that he posted (there's no profile, username, nothing). Maybe the moderators did something?</p>
<p>The GSA Alliance at my school welcomes people of all sexual orientations as well.</p>
<p>So... it was our Day of Silence today. I'm not sure if it created a huge impact, but at least, we surpassed our goal of 100 sign-ups. The teachers were very supportive, and homophobes actually showed some respect. In cases where snide remarks were made (albeit jokingly), teachers were quick to defend. The football coach said he was gay in response to some of the homophobic comments he heard. I was so surprised to hear that.. I almost started laughing, because we all know he's not gay.</p>
<p>The reactions to my wearing a rainbow ribbon were pretty funny also. Some people made a conscious effort to look in a different direction as I walked by, as though i just stripped naked or something. Some whispered/muttered to each other ("he's gay dude.. look"). Yes, I'm gay, I'm attracted to Gregory Smith for goodness' sake.. get over it, lol. Some people looked shocked. Some tried to get me to talk by asking provocative questions at unexpected times, by trying to annoy me (ruffling my hair, etc).. didn't work. Nice try though.. I almost caved in. Some were more sympathetic than usual. And if my gaydar was working properly, I might have even spotted a few closeted ones ;). Their facial expressions were powerful. It's almost as if they verbally expressed to me their gratitude for doing what i did.</p>
<p>"We took an anonymous survey of our members' sexual orientations, and an unusually high percentage claim they are straight. 'tis strange."</p>
<p>Haha, it's like that at my school. Our GSA (it's called GASP!--Gay and Straight People, which I love) is like..."hey hey! We support the rights of GLBTQs...if we can find any!" Actually basically nobody at the whole school is out, but that's a different story.</p>
<p>That's odd.. isn't your school very progressive and liberal? ;)</p>
<p>There are probably a major portion of closet cases; I would say the norm for gay:straight ratio is maximum 8:25, but there may be higher concentrations elsewhere. Said ratio is 10% what it is here (around 1 in 10 freely admits it, and probably another 10% are gay but are not public about it unless they are with other gay people.</p>
<p>"That's odd.. isn't your school very progressive and liberal?"</p>
<p>Hahaha, oh everyone's very accepting of homosexuality, it's just that none of them actually want to be homosexual.</p>
<p>And I mean that in the most facetious way possible. Oh, GASP. Someone the other day suggested calling it SASP, for "straight and straight people." She wasn't far off the mark.</p>
<p>Well, my rationale is that if the student body is very accepting of homosexuality, LGBT students shouldn't be afraid to come out, unless they're still coming into terms with their sexuality. More likely than not, there are gay people at Milton.. trust me. hahah</p>
<p>There are gay people everywhere, although many of them (including some here in America) are repressed, so we never see them. Others, as you pointed out, are coming to terms with it.</p>
<p>"More likely than not, there are gay people at Milton.. trust me."</p>
<p>Oh, I know...there certainly are...it's just amusing.</p>
<p>Wait, how do you know I go to Milton? Stalker. ;)</p>
<p>My school is doing day of Silence the day after the national day, on April 27th, because all our juniors have to take the ACT on the 26th. Alas. But we're very excited about it. Our school (an arts school) always has a huge turnout for this event. There are usually a large number who go silent, plus another large contingent who wear stickers saying, "I support Day of Silence," etc.</p>
<p>Anticatalyst- I used to go there. :)</p>
<p>Ryan, our juniors also have testing on that day and the following day. We didn't expect such a huge turnout for our event, so we were quite happy.</p>
<p>Is this a day of silence arising from the commemoration of the Stonewall Inn rebellion? I thought that was on June 27, not April 27.</p>
<p>Nope. I don't think there's actually an official day commemorating the Stonewall riots.</p>
<p>"The Day of Silence®...is a student-led day of action where those who support making anti-LGBT bullying and harassment unacceptable in schools take part in activities to recognize and protest the discrimination and harassment - in effect, the silencing - experienced by LGBT students and their allies." </p>
<p><a href="http://www.dayofsilence.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.dayofsilence.org/</a></p>
<p>Thanks for the link. I understand now, but there should be something commemorating the beginning of the official resistance.</p>
<p>Indeed, Stonewall is arguably the major turning point of the gay rights movement. The US movement dates back to the early 1920s, when Henry Gerber established in Chicago the first documented gay rights organization in America.</p>
<p>I'm wondering if there are any lesbians out here on CC.</p>
<p>I'm not surprised some of the high schools have nobody out of the closet.</p>
<p>I'm the only openly gay person in my school of 240. But I know of at least five more solid cases that just aren't out yet.</p>
<p>In my school... sheesh... 1600 students, maybe 3 are openly out, or at least known to me? Including one of my good friends, so I know more than others...</p>
<p>Yes, it's absolutely terrible. We need a GSA but I'm afraid only completely dorky/college-image-obsessed straight people would dare to join. I mean, I'd join as a straight, and I would typify the kind of socially-conscious female that would do such a thing. Guys? Not so much.</p>
<p>There's usually 1-3 openly out people in my school of 2000. Though considering location, this isn't exactly surprising news.</p>
<p>Here there is a specific advantage to being gay; you get more girl and boy friends, which is completely opposite of the Day of Silence rationale. The converse is you may anger a lot of straight men who want dates as well and can't break the mold.</p>