Pam's House Blend reminded me that today is National Coming Out Day. I should have remembered this morning while flipping through the radio stations on the way to work. I normally never listen to the local rock station in the morning, because the DJs are your typical dumbass jocks, always shouting over each other about some controversy or another. But the jazz station was having a fund-raiser and my other pre-set stations had some '80s lite rock crap that I hate so much.
I caught the tail end of one of the DJs, a graduate of the Sylvester Stallone School of Diction, saying he has a upside-down pink triangle in his office with the words "safe zone" over it. "Because, you know, if you want to show support, you can't just go up to a gay guy and say, dude, I'm cool with you being gay. You gotta have the sticker!" All the other jockos agreed, yeah, totally, ya gotta get the sticker. Then they went on to talk about the meaning of the triangle, how much Hitler sucked, and how cool it was for gays to take back the symbol.
In the spirit of the day, I hereby apologize to idiot jocks for prejudging them. They're much smarter and cooler than I gave them credit for. And, to our gay brothers and sisters who have come out, thank you for making the world a better, safer place. Please consider my blog a "safe zone" sticker.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Happy Coming Out Day!
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I'm so glad i never became a DJ, but alas the world of DJs is even getting better. baby steps DJs, baby steps.
Yay for enlightenment!!!
Eternal vigilance!
Yay kelly! I forgot too. And by the way, I'm GAY! Did I mention that I'm a homosexual? I think that means I'm sexually attracted to the same sex? but the same sex of what? of you? of me? (I think it's of me...)
by the way. Todd, I love your photo on here...it's a great action shot. Every time I see it, it makes me feel like you just jumped into whatever room I'm in to breathlessly deliver your comment, and then bound away, like a cotton tailed bunny (a butch one).
thanks Daniel, i think Kelly took that of me in a club in North Carolina at which The Meat Joy played. I was finishing setting up our equipment and she caught me jumping off the stage, so i gave a quick pose, ever the runway model am I.
Oh Daniel, I forgot it was Natl Coming Out day too, & I'm a *professional gay*. Let's not tell anyone so we don't lose our u-haul & gym discounts.
*snerk* Teh gays are FUNNY!
Hey I posted about Coming Out Day too!
10 years ago, when I worked in corporate America, I snuck an upside down triangle into a design for a frequent customer card. I actually wasn't making any big statement with it, it just fit the design really well... but when the corporate lawyer called me and questioned me on WHY I had an upside down triangle in the design it suddenly became VERY important to me to keep it there. Ha! Call that sticking it to the man!
AWESOME! I love belligerent acts of defiance.
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