About the Day of Silence

The Day of Silence, a project of GLSEN in collaboration with the United States Student Association (USSA), is a student-led day of action where those who support making anti-LGBT bias unacceptable in schools by participating in activities to recognize and protest the discrimination and harassment – in effect the silencing – experienced by LGBT students and their allies. Across the country last year an estimated 450,000 students in over 3,000 K-12 schools and over 600 colleges took part in the Day of Silence.

About GLSEN

GLSEN, or the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, is the leading national education organization focused on ensuring safe schools for ALL students. GLSEN envisions a world in which every child learns to respect and accept all people, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression. For more information on GLSEN’s educational resources, public policy agenda, research, student organizing programs or development initiatives, visit www.glsen.org.

are you particpating?

im doing it, i think about 60% of the student body for upper school is participating
im gonna have such a hard time to do it... stay silent all day

hell no.

Silent all day? Impossible task for me.

But seems like a nice thing.

my school's doing it...we're in san francisco, famous for gays and lesbians

I Think i might have to kill myself if there was a day where i couldn't talk D=

Yupp....thats about it =D

some people at my school were talking about that too...

you can also wear black to show your support.

haha exactly

? sure.

impossible i can not shut the fuck up

I might try..... I doubt I will stay silent. I know my friends are doing it and they are gonna give stuff out to the teachers. They are in major art so that teacher is setting everything up for them.

yeah.
positive.

Ut...OH.. last time we did this I laughed in dead silence then got in trouble ! ;[

I'll take part. There's no school tomorrow anyway. =]

my school made it so if you don't participate in class, you deal with the consequences, OR that you can only speak when spoken to, but teachers are asked to refrain from speaking to students who are doing the day of silence

its impossible for me to stay silent for more than 2 minutes...

what the hell makes you think i could do it all day!!!!????!?!?!?!

i'm a little mixed on the whole day. It seems a little cheap to pretned to honor sombodys struggle by just staying quite for a day. It has a sort of look at me i care feel to it. But sombody gave me a sticker for it so i guess i'm going to do it.

What day is this? I'll probably do it.

Nah, fuck that. I think I'll try, but I'm most likely going to forget.

i might have to do the black thing instead..i talk too much..
but it's a great idea.

i was told it was tommorow, but i have a bad memory.

I always thought this day of silence. If gays, lesbians, and bis think they are being ignored and not heard then speak up, don't have a day of silence. It's always been it hasn't accomplished anything. If you are true advocates of gay/lesbian rights you should trying being silent until there is a change. Having a cute little day where none of you talk every year will do nothing.

And I'm all for gay rights.

the whole point of it is so we can experience their pain or somthing, alot of people who spoke up lost their jobs or faced other kinds of persacution. But i agree with you having everybody staying quiet for a day doesn't seem like the right way of trying to fix the problem

And having a cute little day for pot smokers doesn't solve anything either...

let it go man, let it go

Of course it doesn't.

They are too busy celebrating their habits to be causing any change or be taken seriously.

I don't see why you have such a problem with it if it isn't harming you.

we're being silent to represent all the people who were silenced because of their sexual orientation
its a statement that you obviously dont understand

alrighty then

my friend signed me up for that at school. so yeah, i think its gonna be pretty much impossible for me. but im gonna try. lol.

black supports gays???? damn now i dont thnk black is my favorite color anymore damn gays have to ruin everything

I'm not saying it isn't a nice gesture but silencing yourself to represent how other were silenced only keeps the chain going.

Speak up. Don silence yourself.

You'll probably argue that silence speaks louder than words, but if the people you are trying to prove your point to don't know what you're saying then what's the point.

Like I said, if you want real change, then we should all just take a vow of silence. Have real protests. Have every gay/lesbian in the country go to the nearest major city and stand in the middle of the streets no speaking a word. Maybe then you'll be heard, but going about your normal lives and writing on a piece of paper to communicate won't do much.

I sympathize but I can't say it's the best way to go about it. I still respect all of you who are doing this though.

i'm going to try. it's going to be hard but i shall try.

damn the gays... if they wanna like their same gender let em and dont shut up for em

writing on a piece of paper to communicate is not the point of staying silent, when you take this vow of silence for the day, it means no communication whatsoever, no writing what you want to say on a piece of paper, thats worse than talking on that day

I've seen so many people do it, but you didn't address anything else I mentioned.



If you don't have anything intelligent to say please go post somewhere else.

im just a tad lazy and i don't read other posts that much. sorry

uuummm no?>

nope. a bunch of people at my school are though.

Yeah, it's tomorrow. There's a big poster up in the commons at my school.

Personally, I won't be participating. I'll probably get a pride ribbon or something, though, I think they pass those out on the Day of Silence.

I am gonna do it. Not the whole day but the whole time I'm at school. Well maybe I'll do the whole day.

yes im participating.

your post has definitely increased my knowledge about that day.

hehe not a chance. i'd break into hysterics if i did that for a whole day.

I failed. My stupid cats woke me up mega early and I went downstairs and complained to my mother. Then I went back to bed and thought "Shit."

I'll go for 'Day of talking as little as possible' now.

omgness yah i am participating in it i mean i thought it was just my school ...lol i am a blonde ...lols well yah it is really hard for me because i like to talk all day and stuff so like i have a white board and yah i have to write everything down:( oh well at least my handwriting will improve:)

lol i have not talked at all today:( it is weird

our table is really quiet now that i am not the one to get convos started

reely? i can only keep quite for 1 second, unless im listening to an iPod, then i shut up

I've failed miserably. I just keep forgetting.