ivoryangel

On April 15th, 2011 as a senior in high school I participated in a day of silence, but instead of just during the four hours that my classmates participated in it I literally began at midnight and ended it on midnight of April 16th, 2011. During which time I endured the same torture as I had for the last four years since I had first learned about GSA and the day of silence. My friends abandoned me and I was literally beat up because I refused to talk.

I have endured this for four years and I still have done it. I even was supposed to perform at the Senior Spotlight and I attended it and sacrificed a chance at a full scholarship to college because I refused to break my silence for money. For the entirety of my act, I stood in front of my entire community and continued not to speak. After which, a freshman that had heard about my day of silence passed this on. I did not know her name but she said that those that stand up for people's freedoms and endure everything to bring attention to some very unsupported students in my school that get bullied everyday and risk my entire reputation for people that weren't even part of my life. She said she admired that I stood up for BGLTs in the world. I am the only person in my school that has participated and kept my vow of silence for the entire day, refusing to break it. Not even the GSA president or the teacher advisors have don that.

I have continued since then to create a tag line for all of the allies because of the freshman that passed this on. I am currently working with what is remaining of our GSA to make next year's participants safer so they don't go through this as well.