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Tomorrow, for those of you living under a rock or tending more important matters at hand, is Day Without a Gay. What is that? It's when those of you who prefer the sweet love of the same sex are supposed to call in sick, not buy anything, and go volunteer in your local community. This is in response to Prop 8 passing, the same-sex marriage ban that will, if not overturned, allow discrimination into the California constitution.
While it sounds like a nice college campus-inspired idea, we can't imagine the overall impact being felt on a grand or effective scale. And if tomorrow's lack of homosexuality is felt, it might go something like this: Picture it, if you will, an average Monday after a messy weekend. That, readers, is what tomorrow might be like. Harrowing, isn't it?
As SFist's Mat Baume already pointed out, we're just not sure what the goal is, or how anyone's going to track the outcome. (Also, why the no-purchasing policy? Way to cut us off at the knees, pinkos.)
So: Do you plan on taking Dec. 10 off?
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So Dan Ashley won't be reading the news?
So now we will all know who is gay when they are missing in action?
Wish they would do something productive instead of being self centered.
Jobs are scarce, they better not mess around or they will be without that too.
So no sfist post tomorrow? :(
sfist will not be calling in sick and/or gay tomorrow.
Is this anything like how you can tell who in the office is a homo because the day after pride weekend they're all tired, smiley and sunburned?
Volunteering is productive. As far as sick-outs go (a popular protest technique) the social component of this one is very redeeming. in my office teh geyhz are going to volunteer at LGBT orgs.
Things not to do during a recession:
1. Quit your job
2. Do something stupid to lose your job
Day Without a Gay = Something Stupid
I guess what confuses me is what are we who are not gay supposed to do?
I mean if we want to show support for gay rights and such, it would seem that buying stuff and whatnot would kinda be saying "hey gay community I'm being a jerk" wouldn't it? Or not?
Intent = good but execution = sigh....
So they are hurting the economy to prove they should marry and raise children?
Sausage Factory CLOSED
LOL: pinkos
Well intended, but ultimately absurd idea. There aren't enough gays around to prove the point and the point would be lost in those areas where gays are concentrated (i.e., cities like SF) enough for their absence to be noted as the folks in these places prolly all voted against Prop 8 anyway. Even in the hinterlands, who is going to notice if the local trailer lesbian doesn't show up for her shift at the dog pound? Silly.
If people followed this where I volunteer, the hospice patients would be very lonely.
I call out gay all the time. If I do it tomorrow it's like crying wolf, they just won't believe me.
I think someone took a movie a bit too seriously:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377744/
I guess what confuses me is what are we who are not gay supposed to do?
My plan is to go to work- but not be very productive. I'll email friends, read celebrity gossip on the internet and lurk here.
Granted, I do this every day- but now I feel good about it.
I'm going to wait until the recession is over to try and get my rights back!
Who is going to be blowing all those "straight" guys on Craigslist?
well, the world will certainly be less fashionable tomorrow. tragic.
I plan to go to work. I think this idea is lame and was started by a columnist for LATimes who introduced the idea half serious and half joking. Unfortunately, the idea got picked up by JOIN THE IMPACT, and so on.
My employer is very supportive of LGBT people, and I do not believe in making my employer pay for a sick day when I'm not sick.
I'm taking the day off, but as a vacation day (I'm not going to screw my company) so I can take a now-unemployed friend to the Academy of Sciences. Does that count as charity work?
Some of you could really benefit from the pharma revolution and take some happy pills. If someone wants to take the day off and help people out as a way of -coping- with the fact 53% of their fellow citizens STABBED THEM IN THE BACK -why do you pissy people care?
I guess it's just who you are. I guess I just need to accept that about you. With that said, I love you pissy people. Tomorrow I will go out and be my gay self... perhaps I will even be assigned to your case :-P