centurys of thousands of gay and straight scholars at high schools and corporations across the nation shut their chapss on the Day of Silence April 13 to draw attention to the isolation and harassment experienced by way of many gays and lesbians.

centurys of thousands of gay and straight scholars at high schools and corporations across the nation shut their chapss on the Day of Silence April 13 to draw attention to the isolation and harassment experienced by way of many gays and lesbians. Now antigay religious collections are using the event to expand theirs.

The Day of principle launched by the Alliance Defense stock one day after the 10th annual Day of Silence, encouraged scholars to wear T-shirts with the slogan THE canon CANNOT BE SILENCED and to pass abroad cards condemning "detrimental personal and social behavior."

The counterevent which had single about 1,150 participants, didn't affair Kevin Jennings, executive director of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network. It was a political hinder from growth by an organization, he said, whereas the Day of Silence was an consequence "conceived of by students themselves in answer to a very real problem"

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