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Originally Posted by StanT
Talking about your sex life on a forum is dramatically different than doing it at work. I really don't want to hear about my coworkers love life at work. I just want to do my job. Your wife is sleeping around? Boinking 3 different guys while living with you bisexual girlfriend? I really don't care and I really don't want to hear about it. Rubbing my nose in your sexuality with a national day of silence just irritates people that aren't part of the problem. The people that discriminate against your preference will just have one more thing to ridicule.
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It isn't about being allowed to talk about the intimate details of your love life. It's about being treated the same. It's about being free to make a casual comment about my wife / girlfriend the same way a male teacher might in casual conversation in the teacher's lounge or at the water cooler. It's about being able to put my name and my wife's name on a rental application without fear of being turned down as a result. It's about being free to refer to my wife as my wife, something I have to avoid whenever I'm at work, just because that word, while not offensive in itself, offends many closed-minded people when used by a woman.
I don't want to be having sex with her in every room in the school during my lunch break, I just want to be able to acknoledge my relationship with her on a basic level, exactly the way the heterosexual employees do.
Gilda
It isn't rubbing anyone's nose in anything to ask for equal rights. Many of the students participating weren't GLBT, but knew people who were.