I am honored to broach to you a socially deliberate inferior at Columbia High School, a very good boyfriend of mine, and the outset proper High School Channel roomer blogger: (drum slide please)… Jesse Law! After whereas posters and hearing announcements about the annual Day of Silence at CHS, I wanted to pen an edifying blog on the event. When I started, though, I realized I didn’t be familiar with enough about it to do this noted cause justice. Luckily, Jesse is well-disposed to serving his awareness and craze for supporting others with all of us. Read on, and be enlightened: "Please conceive of my reasons for not speaking today.
I am participating in the Day of Silence, a subject minor machinery bringing limelight to the silence faced by lesbian, gay, androgyne and transgender community and their allies in schools. My painstaking silence echoes that silence, which is caused by name-callinmg, bullying and harassment. I maintain that ending the tranquillity is the gold step toward fighting these injustices.
Think about the voices you are not hearing today. What are you affluent to do to end the silence?" This Friday, April 16, 2010, is the National Day of Silence. The communication above is the one given on "speaking cards" carried by those who participate in the Day of Silence.
In any case, I desire this article will worker you better understand, abolish any misconceptions, and set in motion awareness of the Day of Silence, its rank in our lives, and what word for word it’s all about. The doggedness of the Day of Silence is to introduce acclaim to , more specifically, nearing , where slurs including "faggot", "dyke", or "that’s so gay" often occur. In a Harris Interactive office on bullying, students sign in that the two of the three most regular cause of bullying and harassment in schools is due to sex orientation, whether it is percieved or not, and gender diction (the palpable display of one’s gender identity, in the face biological gender from birth, generally expressed through clothing, mannerisms, and chosen names). The investigate showed the thousand one cause was appearance.
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