Thursday, January 30

Gay-Straight Alliances - I'm sure that there are plenty of students in rural eastern Kentucky who could easily be convinced to "turn into homosexuals" by a campus club. Because being thrown out of your home is something every kid is searching for. Nice way to blame the loss of all non-curricular school clubs on the gays since, naturally, there wouldn't have been any problem to begin with if they hadn't tried to start their own club. These attitudes make it all the more remarkable that there are kids in these communities who come out. I guess they find the strength because of the promise, as Margaret Cho says, of someday finding a safe, welcoming community like "Chelsea and West Hollywood, where there are streets paved with cock."