A Letter to the Senate

Dear U.S. Senate:

I read an article today saying that you didn't repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell. While it would be polite for me to refrain from telling you exactly where you can SHOVE IT, I don't particularly want to. Therefore, if you bend over and stick your head between your knees, you should find your considerable ass. Feel free to shove all your homophobia and job concerns right up there, nice and tight. Who knows? Maybe you'll get a diamond.

In short, I'm disgusted. There are brave men and women out there, willing to sacrifice their lives to protect my freedom- YOUR freedom- and instead of honoring them and giving them the respect they deserve, you try and regulate their sex lives. You should be ashamed of yourselves. This country is in the middle of a war and you are turning away able men and women because of their sexuality, something they can't even control.

The American Public now has to sit and wait for "...top military commanders to certify that ending 'don’t ask, don’t tell' would not harm morale or impede battle readiness of the armed forces" (New York Times) because Obama and the Democrats are too scared of losing their jobs to just do the right thing. Fuck being a moderate. This is a radical issue and we need radical people. Not everything can be about getting re-elected. If you're not going to act as a Senator now, why should we re-elect you so you can continue to not act later? Do something good with your power, or leave.

But who am I kidding. You won't do either of those. You'll sit there and wait for that report. You'll continue to underestimate the integrity of our soldiers. You'll continue to assume that they wouldn't be able to defend our country if they knew that their comrade was having sex with someone of the same gender. You'll continue to ignore the huge upsurge of support for repealing this blatant discrimination. You'll continue to waste much-needed resources on finding gay people in the military when you're not supposed "ask" anyways. You'll continue to be bigots. See if that gets you re-elected.

We're supposed to be the "land of the free, home of the brave". I know the second part is true because you're keeping all of the brave people at home. What I'm questioning is the first part, the part I should be the most sure of. I'm only in high school and I already despise this country. Don't make the next generation despise it too.

Please, just do the right thing: repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell.

Lady Gaga- Words Cannot Describe Her Amazingness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG5VK2lquEc&feature=player_embedded

Alright, watch that video.

Have you watched it yet?

Now?

How about now?

I'm going to assume you've watched it by now. :)

Alright. Lady Gaga is my new best friend. Seriously. One day, she's wearing a meat dress to the VMAs, the next, she's telling senators to get the stick out of their butt and do the right thing. (Maybe not using those exact words...) I love it. LOVE. IT. Seriously.

But really. If there are any conservatives reading this (and I doubt there are), please think about this. The GLBTQ community is not trying to hurt you or prohibit you from living the way you want to. They want to be able to love. In a world that is so full of hate, can we really afford to stop them?

To Lady Gaga: Thank you. The world needs more people with your fearlessness and willingness to be yourself whenever and wherever.

The Mostly-Likely-Going-To-Be-Ever-Changing Background

Because I feel like it. :P

Today, it's leaves because I'm very excited for the fall and being able to wear sweatshirts and comfy pants and maybe convincing my dad to put a fire in the fireplace and hot chocolate and Halloween (free candy!) and school being that much closer to over and Thanksgiving and Winter Break and WINTER! :D

I love winter. I love snow. I love snowmen. I love snow angels. I love the process of putting on snow pants and a coat and gloves and a hat and a scarf and trying to make sure that there is not a single spot of exposed skin. I love throwing snowballs. I love making snowballs. I love the satisfying THUD they make whenever they hit something.

I can't wait. :)

An Explanation Seems Like A Good Idea

I know. There is one question on everybody's mind: Why Rainbow Sprinkles?

(And for those of you wondering, no, I am not psychic.)

Here's why: it's going to be the name of my gay rights organization. Yes, I am starting my own. No, I do not want to just join one that already exists. Yes, I am that stubborn. :)

I originally was going to wait until after college, maybe internship at a different organization, learn the ropes, all that jazz. But then I started thinking: Why? My beliefs about gay rights are not going to change between now and then. My ideas might, but the wonderful thing about starting my own organization is that I can change my organization as my ideas, and the ideas of peers, change. So why wait?

And this realization coincided with the best idea I've had in a long time: an independent study. I'm going to do one. At my school. And it's going to be a presentation about gay rights. And now I have all these ideas bouncing around in my head for the presentation and they needed to go somewhere, and that somewhere is here. Get this:

I'm going to do it on the Day of Silence (for more info about this: http://www.dayofsilence.org/index.cfm). I think it would be so awesome. Like, a completely silent presentation. And my school gives participants of the DoS a slip of paper explaining why they're silent so that when people ask, they don't have to talk. So it starts with "Please understand my reasons for not speaking today." I'm going to make this paragraph the first slide, and it'll be on display as the audience walks in.

I want to say more, but I also want it to be a surprise if I can actually do this at my school which would be AMAZING. So that's all for now. :)