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. :)