SheWhoMustNotBeNamed
Former Member
My university is not having any major event to participate in this that I know of, but I will be definately be participating on my own.
Lance Bass: 'It's time for me to stand up'
Lance Bass doesn't want others to stay silent as he did.
So he's made a public service announcement for the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN). The spot, which is being distributed virally Friday, debuts in advance of the 11th annual National Day of Silence on April 25, when students take a vow of silence to protest bullying, harassment and discrimination in schools.
[snip]
"Everyday, thousands of students are silenced. They're silenced by fear, they're silenced for being who they are. ... They're brothers, they're sisters, they're gay, they're straight, they're you, they're me."
Bass, who recently completed a stint in the Broadway musical "Hairspray" and released a memoir, said the PSA is meant to honor Lawrence King -- a 15-year-old student was shot and killed in February in Oxnard, California, by a younger boy because he arrived at school in feminine attire.
More at link: http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/18/people.lance.bass.ap/index.html
For more on the Day of Silence: http://www.dayofsilence.org
To view the PSA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah5eUz6iT9s
Lance Bass: 'It's time for me to stand up'
Lance Bass doesn't want others to stay silent as he did.
So he's made a public service announcement for the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN). The spot, which is being distributed virally Friday, debuts in advance of the 11th annual National Day of Silence on April 25, when students take a vow of silence to protest bullying, harassment and discrimination in schools.
[snip]
"Everyday, thousands of students are silenced. They're silenced by fear, they're silenced for being who they are. ... They're brothers, they're sisters, they're gay, they're straight, they're you, they're me."
Bass, who recently completed a stint in the Broadway musical "Hairspray" and released a memoir, said the PSA is meant to honor Lawrence King -- a 15-year-old student was shot and killed in February in Oxnard, California, by a younger boy because he arrived at school in feminine attire.
More at link: http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/18/people.lance.bass.ap/index.html
For more on the Day of Silence: http://www.dayofsilence.org
To view the PSA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah5eUz6iT9s