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Title: Students keep quiet to speak out against discrimination
Post by: LostInTime on April 19, 2007, 08:50:09 AM
Post by: LostInTime on April 19, 2007, 08:50:09 AM
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VISION, a group that represents gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, asexual, intersex, questioning, ally at BGSU, celebrated the annual Day of Silence by not speaking from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. yesterday.
VISION members wore stickers that explained their silence was meant to echo the silence caused by the harassment, prejudice and discrimination of LGBT people and their allies.
At the end of the stickers it asks the question, "What are you going to do to end the silence?"
VISION, a group that represents gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, asexual, intersex, questioning, ally at BGSU, celebrated the annual Day of Silence by not speaking from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. yesterday.
VISION members wore stickers that explained their silence was meant to echo the silence caused by the harassment, prejudice and discrimination of LGBT people and their allies.
At the end of the stickers it asks the question, "What are you going to do to end the silence?"