GLSEN's 'Day of Silence' Generates Plenty of Noise
by Kilian Melloy
Wednesday Apr 14, 2010
http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=104564This year's annual "Day of Silence," a day when students vow to remain quiet as a means of drawing attention to the voicelessness of GLBT youth, is generating plenty of noise in advance of its April 16 date, with anti-gay groups slamming the wordless protest as "disruptive" and encouraging parents to pull their kids out of school for the day if the school allows students not to speak.
"Hundreds of thousands of students at thousands of middle schools, high schools and colleges will participate in GLSEN's 15th annual Day of Silence on Friday by taking some form of a vow of silence to bring attention to anti-LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) name-calling, bullying and harassment," reads an April 13 press release issued by the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN), a safe schools advocacy group that focuses on the needs and experiences of GLBT youth.
