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Jason Collins is gay. Hold the presses.

Jason Collins came out today. It’s the only thing that’s been on the news.

You know what hasn’t been on the news today?

Brittney Griner, the openly gay basketball play who was a first round pick of the WNBA last week

the fact that All My Children came back from the dead today, and that AMC has an openly gay character on it

the fact that I’m gay

the nine million Americans who are gay (source: http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/study-shows-how-many-americans-are-gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender/news/2011/04/07/18551)

 

People are paying attention to Jason Collins coming out because he’s a man, because he’s African-American, because he’s a basketball player, and because he’s in a magazine. (You can read the article here.)

 

Frankly, I’m annoyed by all the media attention Jason is getting. There are millions upon millions of people just like him. What he did isn’t a big deal– tons of people come out everyday. His coming out is just being played out as a big deal because he happens to be an athlete, and he happens to be famous.

 

But you know what? I’ve met plenty of gay black men athletes. You’re just like everyone else, Jason. Welcome to the rainbow side.

 

PAD Challenge, Day 27

4/27/2013- a “mechanical” poem (i chose to substitute mechanics for recipe)

how to toast a sorority girl
-kb

previously, in my mind,
a sorority girl was a simple recipe:

1 part giggles
2 parts tits
1/80 part dignity
3 parts superficiality
1 part loyalty
1/2 part bitch
1/2 part crazy
2 1/2 parts pink
and sprinkled with as much school spirit as the booze would provide.

for the past 5 years, my recipe proved to be pretty solid,
with only the occasional modification.
that was, until now.

now i’m dressed in
3 parts hairspray
1 part new dress
1 part nice shoes
2 parts makeup
and 1 part biting my tongue

for my

4 parts butch
2 parts secretly girly
2 parts kindhearted
1 part silly
1 part tux
1 part bow tie
all parts love

a-typical sorority-girl girlfriend.

Day of Silence, 2013

Breaking SIlence flier

Tomorrow (well, technically today I suppose) I will be performing and speaking at a breaking-of-the-silence event for LGBT Youth. I’m still putting together everything I want to say and share with the young ‘uns tomorrow, but I think it’s important to recognize the Day of Silence.

I actually recently watched the one of the first video essay things I made in hopes of gaining inspiration for tomorrow’s event. In the video (Featured below), which is a combo slideshow/ blog-type-thing, I reflected on why the Day of Silence was so important to me in 2008, as well as why it mattered so much. It was really cute how I tried to make it seem like I participated in DoS for my gay and lesbian friends, and that I was a straight ally. It’s not like me being a founding member of the hs GSA, wearing a suit to school, or the fact that I used a song from “The L Word” screamed that I was gay or anything. I was trying so hard to not give away my sexuality in this video. It was such a cute baby dyke moment for me. Who knows? Maybe I’ll inspire some baby dykes tomorrow.

Also. Look at how young I was! I was thin! I had long hair! I hadn’t started waxing my eyebrows yet! This video is a gem, I tell ya.

Have you ever participated in the Day of Silence? What did the experience mean to you?

“Let’s paint the town red,” they said.

After not really being on the internet much last night, I finally logged on around 11:30 and saw that Facebook kind of went wild with red equality signs. I also saw this banner on a few of my Facebook friend’s pages, which gave me a clue about what the red was about.

paint the town red

It’s no secret that I’m a lesbian. (Surprise.) Ya’ll have seen me ramble about gay shiz before, and you even witnessed my 21st century coming out to the family.

Hell, I even shared my NOH8 Campaign story with you.

NOH8

So far this morning, I’ve been overwhelmed by the amount of red I’ve seen on social media. Sure, there have been plenty of gays and lesbians “painting the town red,” but there have also been an incredible number of allies with red equality signs as their profile pictures. As a lesbian woman, to have the support of so many people whose lives really aren’t affected by marriage equality is truly breath taking.

I do, however, want to point out that marriage equality won’t solve all issues of equality. As progressive as today’s society is, it is still very behind in the “all (people) are treated equal” aspect of our country. Please take a moment to look at NCLR’s issues and cases, and hopefully you’ll realize that the lack of marriage equality isn’t the only injustice in our country.

Oh, and, just for the heck of it, here’s a lovely moment of Golden Girls on marriage equality. :)

 

To learn more about the red equality signs and what’s going on today check out the Human Rights Campaign.