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May. 15th, 2006 10:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sophiaserpentiaI went to the Youth Pride rally on Saturday. The rally was originally to be held at the Boston Common, but was held indoors at the Castle on Arlington Street instead due to the torrential downpour.
Despite the rain, they paraded. After watching them line up and file out the door, with banners and raincoats and plastic ponchos, i gathered my stuff and left The Network's table. On the way down Arlington Street to the T i saw the parade coming: a duck boat and about 2 blocks worth of mostly teenagers. So i stood, while getting soaked (my umbrella was irrelevant) and watched as they passed by, chanting,
"What do we want?"
"Safe schools!"
"When do we want them?"
"Now!"
Safe schools. That's the big gay agenda: "Don't harass or beat up gay kids, please. It would be nice if you didn't kick us out of our homes, too."
The parade is affiliated with the Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth. It came under attack last week because the governor, under pressure from homophobes because he's running for President, freaked out because his name appears on the letterhead the commission used when sending out a letter about the parade.
Gee, it's a governor's commission, created by a Republican governor in 1988 to address the astronomical rates of suicide and depression among gay and lesbian teenagers. Governor's commissions tend to have the current governor's name on the letterhead. Imagine that.
The Article 8 Alliance has the gall to say that they are "standing up for children." Attempting to silence teenagers and prevent them from expressing who they are, attacking efforts aimed at making their homes and schools safer, this is their idea of standing up for children? In future generations, people will think of groups like this the same way we now think of the Ku Klux Klan.
Despite the rain, they paraded. After watching them line up and file out the door, with banners and raincoats and plastic ponchos, i gathered my stuff and left The Network's table. On the way down Arlington Street to the T i saw the parade coming: a duck boat and about 2 blocks worth of mostly teenagers. So i stood, while getting soaked (my umbrella was irrelevant) and watched as they passed by, chanting,
"What do we want?"
"Safe schools!"
"When do we want them?"
"Now!"
Safe schools. That's the big gay agenda: "Don't harass or beat up gay kids, please. It would be nice if you didn't kick us out of our homes, too."
The parade is affiliated with the Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth. It came under attack last week because the governor, under pressure from homophobes because he's running for President, freaked out because his name appears on the letterhead the commission used when sending out a letter about the parade.
Gee, it's a governor's commission, created by a Republican governor in 1988 to address the astronomical rates of suicide and depression among gay and lesbian teenagers. Governor's commissions tend to have the current governor's name on the letterhead. Imagine that.
The Article 8 Alliance has the gall to say that they are "standing up for children." Attempting to silence teenagers and prevent them from expressing who they are, attacking efforts aimed at making their homes and schools safer, this is their idea of standing up for children? In future generations, people will think of groups like this the same way we now think of the Ku Klux Klan.
