The Outness Quotient
Oh Snap!
I found an HRC = sticker in my junkmail and was thinking it was time to take the George Bush sticker off my car and add Civil Marriage is a Civil Right and the HRC sticker to my car (to go with my Rainbow and my Charter School stickers) and suddenly realized: I have a job interview next week at a county school in a conservative area. So while the Rainbow will stay the more blatent stickers will have to wait......
At the school I taught in in 2002-2003 I had a Howard Dean sticker and during the walk-up to the Iraq invasion I wore a small flag/peace pin in class. And I think that was noticed (other teachers were wearing flag pins). That was the extent of my activism (other than some class discussions on global water and peak oil).
So I guess I have to be semi-closeted which I am not used to and which chafes against my character. For a while......
In other related stuff Obama still sucks for gay rights. Talked a good game during the campaign but DADT is not going away by itself and linguists are still being booted out, no initiative on DOMA, there has been practically no comment on the domino effect of marriage rights in 10% of our staes and soon to be 20% once NY, NJ, CA, RI, and NH come in to the fold. WA also now has 'separate but unequal' Civil Unions that I expect to be converted to marriage in a few years. Obama promised, has the capital to do things here, and is certainly not afraid to work on many issues concurrently but he has fallen flat. I have to say I am not surprised at all but I am disappointed.
I found an HRC = sticker in my junkmail and was thinking it was time to take the George Bush sticker off my car and add Civil Marriage is a Civil Right and the HRC sticker to my car (to go with my Rainbow and my Charter School stickers) and suddenly realized: I have a job interview next week at a county school in a conservative area. So while the Rainbow will stay the more blatent stickers will have to wait......
At the school I taught in in 2002-2003 I had a Howard Dean sticker and during the walk-up to the Iraq invasion I wore a small flag/peace pin in class. And I think that was noticed (other teachers were wearing flag pins). That was the extent of my activism (other than some class discussions on global water and peak oil).
So I guess I have to be semi-closeted which I am not used to and which chafes against my character. For a while......
In other related stuff Obama still sucks for gay rights. Talked a good game during the campaign but DADT is not going away by itself and linguists are still being booted out, no initiative on DOMA, there has been practically no comment on the domino effect of marriage rights in 10% of our staes and soon to be 20% once NY, NJ, CA, RI, and NH come in to the fold. WA also now has 'separate but unequal' Civil Unions that I expect to be converted to marriage in a few years. Obama promised, has the capital to do things here, and is certainly not afraid to work on many issues concurrently but he has fallen flat. I have to say I am not surprised at all but I am disappointed.