Color-Blindness, Unless It’s Lavender
While liberals urge that society should be “color-blind,” except when it pertains to college admissions or job promotions, homosexual activists are taking another route: self-segregating themselves, but not on the basis of skin color.
USAToday reports:
If you see rainbow-colored tassels dangling from mortarboards this college commencement season, think lavender.
Echoing a tradition already established on many campuses for minority students and other groups, a small but growing number of schools are holding “lavender graduations” to honor gay and lesbian students.
“We’re finally … getting our names and faces out there,” says Alex Ferrando, 22, who helped organize the inaugural lavender graduation last month at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Commencement was Sunday.
This year, lavender graduations are being or were held on more than 50 campuses, up from just a handful a decade ago. Among those launching ceremonies this year: the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Hawaii in Manoa and Kutztown University in Pennsylvania.
Typically, lavender ceremonies - the color, like the rainbow, is of symbolic significance to gay groups - are organized by campus resource centers for students who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender - LGBT, for short.
. . .The growing visibility of lavender graduations - including on many campuses the participation of university officials - suggests more universities see value in supporting their gay populations, says Shane Windmeyer, founder of Campus Pride, a national organization for LGBT youth. “Such an event shows commitment to the LGBT student not only in recruitment but also in retention and a connection into their status as alumni.”
They might almost make you think that every fifth person was homosexual, instead of 1 in 1,000 or so. But we know better.
Segregation on the basis of sexual orientation, while demanding “special” ceremonies at tax payers’ expense, is anything but gay. It’s downright sad.
May 24th, 2006 at 8:49 pm
OT: As of now, I believe Prop 13 is absurd. This has been great for those of us living in real estate we purchased in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. For those of us who were 20 in 1990, this is Socialism. My Republican roots make me want to feel happy for anyone getting a break on any tax. But this is just dumb, and grossly unfair. Where have all the “conservatives” gone? Maybe they are on vacation in Hawaii again.
May 25th, 2006 at 9:15 am
Special graduation ceremonies for gays and lesbians?
What would be next? Bigamists? Virgins? Trannies?