iluvlucy2006
06-15-2009, 05:52 PM
i just saw the documentary based on this campaign. they went to my school, cal baptist in riverside. i was attending the school the year the bus came around, and had already been struggling with keeping in the closet. if only i knew the bus was there, wow that would have changed things.
my school had kicked me out once for 'being depressed' but, i know that it was because i was outed by an old roommate who found out i was a lesbian. i fought, and was able to come back the following fall. still in the closet, i tried to follow the rules, and act like the others. but, this past school year i couldn't take the closet anymore. it was election time, and here in california, we had prop 8 to deal with. everywhere you looked on my campus there were banners, stickers, special chapels saying vote yes on prop 8, talking about how wrong the sin was, that you should love the person, hate the sin, i heard it on the radio, it was a topic in ALL of my classes. I was forced to stay in my apartment on campus because i wasn't able to handle it, not to mention i had no one to talk to about it because the 2 friends i had told stopped talking to me.
we lost prop 8, and school got back to normal except for my one class, that just happened to be taught by a greek orthodox priest, my luck. the gave a 2 week lecture on gay history. i liked learning about it, but it was filled with negativity, hate, discrimination. i spoke out many times, and walked out of more than half of those classes. i got an F in that class.
it isn't easy to go to my school, and since i saw how my school treated the bus riders, i am going to have to leave, because that is obviously what they think of me.
if ever possible, i would love to be apart of the bus ride, and especially to go to my school, i feel better about myself when i am not there, i am sad that a school i tried so hard to get back into, and had to much pride in, could treat people so badly.
my school had kicked me out once for 'being depressed' but, i know that it was because i was outed by an old roommate who found out i was a lesbian. i fought, and was able to come back the following fall. still in the closet, i tried to follow the rules, and act like the others. but, this past school year i couldn't take the closet anymore. it was election time, and here in california, we had prop 8 to deal with. everywhere you looked on my campus there were banners, stickers, special chapels saying vote yes on prop 8, talking about how wrong the sin was, that you should love the person, hate the sin, i heard it on the radio, it was a topic in ALL of my classes. I was forced to stay in my apartment on campus because i wasn't able to handle it, not to mention i had no one to talk to about it because the 2 friends i had told stopped talking to me.
we lost prop 8, and school got back to normal except for my one class, that just happened to be taught by a greek orthodox priest, my luck. the gave a 2 week lecture on gay history. i liked learning about it, but it was filled with negativity, hate, discrimination. i spoke out many times, and walked out of more than half of those classes. i got an F in that class.
it isn't easy to go to my school, and since i saw how my school treated the bus riders, i am going to have to leave, because that is obviously what they think of me.
if ever possible, i would love to be apart of the bus ride, and especially to go to my school, i feel better about myself when i am not there, i am sad that a school i tried so hard to get back into, and had to much pride in, could treat people so badly.