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10-20-2010, 11:48 AM | #1 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Hammond, LA
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| Wear purple today! Spirit day Here is a link to the news article Spirit Day: Wear Purple on October 20 to Raise Awareness of Anti-Gay Bullying, Says GLAAD - Crimesider - CBS News |
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10-20-2010, 12:51 PM | #2 |
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| I am wearing my purple!!! Anyone else?
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10-20-2010, 12:57 PM | #3 |
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| As a mother of 2 boys and 2 girls , I think it is terrible for anyone to be bullied. It is a terrible shame that someone can't just live their life how they want without someone else butting into it. Life is short!!! Can't we all just get along??? We are fighting ourselves for no reason. Live and let live!!!
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10-20-2010, 12:58 PM | #4 |
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| I've got my purple!
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10-20-2010, 01:57 PM | #5 |
Donating YT 30K Club Member | I have purple on too, but didn't realize what day it was.
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10-20-2010, 02:22 PM | #6 |
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| As a mother of 1 boy (heterosexual) and 3 daughters (lesbian) I wish we lived in a perfect world where we did "live and let live" but unfortunately we do not. People judge, criticize and bully every day in every nation. Teens are committing suicide over this, adults are being bullied, fired, and murdered for this. When my oldest daughter "came out" she asked me what I was thinking and feeling. I told her that no matter what I LOVE HER. I also told her that I wish she could be "normal" whatever that is. That she was not overweight, wearing glasses, or a lesbian. She got a little bent out of shape over me saying this but then I explained: I wanted all my children to not have to be picked on, ridiculed, bullied, and snickered at. Being a lesbian was not the reason alone and that I would want for her not to have to face all those extra challenges in life when being a teenager is hard enough. Add to that wearing glasses, braces, being overweight and being gay and every card was stacked against her. I cried many nights about how cruel the kids at school were going to be to her and I could not protect her. My daughter is 20 and in her 3rd year at Simmons College in Boston. She has maintained honors, will graduate a year early with double majors and will be going to law school in the fall of 2011. She graduated in the top 10% in her large high school. She has had her bumps in the road during those teenage years but is on the way to becoming a wonderful adult. My twin daughters that are a year younger "came out" to me 2 years ago. Their sister had paved the way and they have had a much easier time with it at home but especially at school. They are in their first year of college and doing great. I still told them the same thing, I wish that they were not gay, wish they were not overweight, and list could go on. However, they are my daughters and I love them no matter what. It just is not the life path I would have "chosen" for them. And since they have no choice in how they are programmed they are making the best of what our maker gave them. I wish that every child parents' loved them unconditionally. I wish that we lived in a perfect world where everyone respected and accepted each other for their uniqueness. I wish that all the animals on the earth were treated kindly and humanely. Unfortunately I am but one person. So I wear purple today as do my daughters and my son.
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10-20-2010, 02:34 PM | #7 |
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| I don't know if I have any purple in my closet (!) but yes, my daughter wore purple to school today.
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10-20-2010, 03:56 PM | #8 | |
YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Long Island, NY USA
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| You must be very proud of your children. Your girls have turned out just fine. Bless them and I wish them luck in the future. As parents we can guide them and help them to become good people. If we accomplish that our job is successful. Quote:
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10-20-2010, 04:36 PM | #9 |
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| Wow, it's so nice to see all this support! I wore my purple today as well. I hope people understand that people who are gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender/queer (GLBTQ) are just like everyone else. My partner and I have been together for over 5 years. We have a home together, pay our bills, pay our taxes, lead generally responsible lives, work for the government, and love our dogs more than anything. We are active in our community and care about the world around us. We are just as committed to one another as any opposite-sex couple. We go through many of the same stressful and mundane things that married couples go through together (caring for elderly relatives, trying to decide what color to paint the kitchen, etc). At the end of the day, all that matters is we love one another. I am so tired of the way GLBTQ individuals are portrayed in the media. There is such a stigma that is attached to being in a same-sex relationship and it's so frustrating to live with that hanging over your head. I work for the federal government and do the same job as everyone else, yet I cannot share my health benefits with my partner because, in the eyes of the federal government, we are not legally married. I am not asking for special benefits, I'm just asking for equal pay for equal work. I sincerely hope that this national discussion about bulling will lead to the understanding that people in same-sex relationships deserve to be treated like everyone else. Treating teens differently because they are GLBTQ is not right and treating adults differently because they are GLBTQ is not right either. I was happy to hear about the (hopefully permanent) end to Don't Ask, Don't Tell, but I now want to see a similar change in the Federal government and at the state level.
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10-20-2010, 04:52 PM | #10 | |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker | This is an example of why I get so angry when people say gays and lesbians are not "born". My Grandmother married a man with 4 HS or College age children, 3 boys and 1 girl. Two of the boys "came out" in their 20's. I see it all the time in families, and I do believe they were programmed this way, as you say. I believe everyone should be allowed to live their life in a manner that pleases them, as long as they are not inflicting bodily harm on others. Quote:
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10-20-2010, 05:01 PM | #11 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Up North
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| But when you look at the way the government and the laws now...you can actually fire someone for being gay. How is that right? I support you vinniedoggie...I agree that you and your partner should have rights to the same as a hetero couple do. There was a lesbian couple here that one of the women were dying in the hospital of breast cancer, her partner had no rights in the hospital and just wanted to do as she promised and spend the rest of her life with her. She was denied that right. That is sad. Many states do not allow gays to adopt. Yet they allow single drug addicted moms to keep their babies?
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10-20-2010, 05:14 PM | #12 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: canton ohio us
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| I changed today so i was wearing purple. My very first date was with a girl (just to clarify im also a girl) i was raised in a life wear it was as normal to be gay as it was to wear glasses my nanny as a child was a gay cross-dresser and i just did not understand that some people could not like that, so when i was 16 and a girl asked me out i went I had a great time we dated for 2 months(an eternity when you are a freshman). I go to all the pride marches in my area in june
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10-21-2010, 07:10 AM | #13 | |
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Great post, Andrea. Thank you for sharing this, it's so important. I'm so glad I saw this thread, as I will absolutely wear purple today. I wish I'd seen this before hubby left, as he would have wanted to wear purple and show support as well, had he known before leaving for work. Gender orientation or sexual orientation is a matter of nature.
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