Do You Want To Be Protected?

The banner was removed between 7 am and 9:30 am on Friday, by a member of the faculty who may have been acting on her own (not for the school). This faculty member acted in response to a handful of heterosexual students who were upset and felt protective of other students.

How do you feel about this? Do you prefer to be protected from being upset? Or do you prefer to decide for yourself about the world -- what you do/do not want to see, what you think about what you see?

I thought everyone should know...

I just received a comment that quoted the graffiti written over the Pride signs (see sidebar). Does that mean we've reached the original graffiti artist? I had hoped this person might be open to a discussion.

To everyone else, thank you for continuing the conversation!

Let's Talk

My name is Jessica Clements, and I hung the banner on the Fine Arts Building at GMU that read, "SODOMY IS. Gay or Straight." The banner was a response to graffiti written over invitations to a Pride event. I left the message intentionally ambiguous, because I feel that graffiti was intended to silence. I want people to talk about these issues and educate themselves. This blog is a forum for those who wish to ask questions about the gay pride movement, talk about the pain caused to people by the hate-graffiti, and address issues raised by the banner.

This blog is being moderated so that it does not become a forum for further aggression. For this reason, it may take a few hours before your comments are live. I will do my best to review and post them promptly. Sensitive and open comments on any aspect of the issues will be posted. See the sidebar for more information.