Well, seeing Telemachus actually post fueled a fire in me to end my blogging drought- and what better way of doing this than blogging about National Coming Out Day!
For those of you who don't know, National Coming Out Day is on October 11 and it's the day that is an internationally-observed civil awareness day for coming out and discussion about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trangsender issues. (thank you wiki!)
So, what are your schools doing for that day? It's a shame that Cornell's gay community is not that involved and you don't really hear much of anything on National Coming out Day, but they do have a few things going on. I wish that this day was a lot more popular and better known. It wasn't until this year that I even knew or heard of it before hand, and that was only through the queer-related listserves. I bothers me when I think about how little must be heard of these issues on smaller, more conservative campuses when I begint to consider that Cornell is so big and so liberal and yet to little is heard on this campus.
However, hopefully, this year, the LGBTQ groups plan to have a few things set up on the main plaza on campus, including a closet door to step through! I also received an email on the LGBT-listserve asking people to send in their names so that they can print them out and post them on the newspaper on that day. Just list all the names of the allys and gay/lesbians/queers on campus. I feel like this is a pretty ballsy move for anyone. Granted, they probably wouldn't face a lot of backlash for doing so, and while I'm not comfortable with just putting my name out there like that- I totally give props and kudos to anyone who does.
So anyway, what do YOU plan to do for National Coming Out Day? I plan to just wear my Queer's fight back shirt (an event last semester) and my rainbow belt! Any more plans/ideas?
No comments:
Post a Comment