GSA

Yesterday I went to the Gay Straight Alliance meeting at my school at 3:00. I went with Tas and we were the only grade 12s there. There was about 17 people there, including 3 adults. One of which was Mrs. Brazzil. FML. Haha, no it's actually okay. I'm over it. Although I did flip Erik the bird today when I saw him heading to the theatre after school. He laughed. He's still there actually. There was only one boy who was a student. Anyway, the first thing we did at the meeting was find a "thumb buddy." This meant we had to go around and look at people's thumbs and try to find one that was similar in some way to our own thumb. I found a girl who was in grade 9 and her thumb was pink like mine so we became thumb buddies. Her name was Janitah and I think she was a lesbian? Maybe. Or bi. I know she wasn't straight though. You'll find out later on. And then we had to find out two things we had in common and something you wouldn't know about ourselves just by seeing us. We had many things in common, such as liking manga, having dyed our hair red in grade 9, liking spanish, etc. After a while, Mr. Blenman (our gay wrestling coach) rolled out two long and thick pieces of paper. He then tossed out markers onto the paper that were rainbow coloured. :P We were then supposed to write why we were there and what we wanted to see happen during the year. I wrote "I'm here because I want to support the gay, lesbian, bi, and transexual community in our school. They deserve to be just as happy as anyone else and the bullying and discrimination is unacceptable. Advocacy!" or something along those lines. I then wrote "Love knows no boundaries." Mrs. Brazzil came over and wrote "Absolutely" with an arrow pointing to my writing. Janitah wrote something like this: "I'm here because I want to find support for gays and for myself." Which is why I don't think she's completely straight. We then went around and introduced ourselves, something we liked to do, that one thing no one would know about us just by seeing us, and a little something extra. On my turn I said, "My name's Raven. I love reading, writing, and drawing. Something you wouldn't know just by looking at me is that I'm half Mexican. Haha, yeah, my mother was born and raised in Mexico. And I'm ashamed to say that I used to be quite homophobic because my parents are severely homophobic. But that changed when I found out my sister was gay. So that's what changed me!" When I said I was half Mexican, about half the people in the room were like, "What?", "No way!", "You're kidding!" Aha, is it really that hard to see? LOL. There was one bisexual girl, three pansexual girls, and one transexual male. Then afterwards we all went around in a circle and said everyone's name to learn them. Afterwards we had pizza and pop! It was delish! I ate three pieces. XD Then it was 4:30 and I went home because it was over. :P So I'm glad I went and I'm looking forward to the next one.