'Acts' shock students, bring awareness

[meegbear]

On Friday, members of the Murray State Alliance performed live homosexual acts on campus in the Free Speech Zone. Many students were shocked, but not necessarily as the name the event implies.

Students performed acts such as reading, studying and hanging out to raise awareness about the lifestyle of gay members of the Murray State campus.

Chris Morehead, junior from Paducah, Ky., checked out Friday's event after hearing about it through a Facebook message. He said the event was sort of ironic because the name of the event is shocking, but the activities are normal.

Morehead, who is gay, said while hanging out at the event he was pleased to see several of his straight friends were comfortable enough to stop and speak to him. He said he also had friends who walked by and waved but did not stop.

"We're a university and we have different cultures and ideas," Morehead said. "We're a melting pot, so people have to be tolerant of others."

Morehead said the goal of the gay community at Murray State is to build tolerance of their lifestyles with other students. He said this is one of many events building the foundation for tolerance before they even try to promote acceptance.

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[Jamastiene]

1. I love brilliant minds like that who know just how to BUST the stereotypes and

show people that we are human beings...just like them. Bravo!

:thumbsup:

[TechBear_Seattle]

2. Brilliant indeed. That is an excellent idea that I hope gets stolen shamelessly. n/t

[Cronus Protagonist]

8. Ahhh, if only we could fully implement the Gay Agenda

http://cronus.com/agenda

:)

[Duncan Grant]

3. Recommended!

How clever is that? :D

[SacredCow]

4. Score....

:hi:

[uppityperson]

5. k&r for educating the ignorant

[davidinalameda]

6. hate to burst his bubble

but people don't have to be tolerant of others

people should, no matter what their differences, but they don't

[ColbertWatcher]

7. As a member of The Colbert Nation, I stay as far from bears as I can, but ...

... I have to kick and rec your thread.

Good on you for posting it.

Good on the kids for staging their "acts" in public!

[bluedawg12]

9. Their building tolerance by educating others - that's a good thing

They did it in a clever, rather ironic way, that seems effective and non -threatening, IMHO that's great.

[Rhythm]

10. I'm going to have to pass this idea along to BiGLTM at WVU...

This would be a great awareness activity for this spring, especially since the campus' "free speech zone" is along either side of a main street that passes in front of the student union.

[RedLetterRev]

11. What a wicked-great idea!

I've been asked to participate on a panel at NC A&T this spring. Bookmarking and swiping this bigtime :)