Originally Posted by Gilda

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.