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National Coming Out Day Should Stay Inside The Closet
By: Nick Moreno, 4th Year Cognitive Science Major, UCLA
Description: UCLA student and Bakersfield product frustrated by the campus soapbox traffic jam - a rant

Topics: UCLA, college, Bakotopia, National Coming Out Day 2007, Commentary, Bakersfield, Magazine, october
Posted by Bakontributor Mon Oct 29, 2007 17:19:17 PDT
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National Coming Out Day Should Stay Inside The Closet
UCLA student and Bakersfield product frustrated by the campus soapbox traffic jam - a rant. Part of Bakotopia's 'Campus Buzz / College Stories' series

By Nick Moreno, 4th Year Cognitive Science Major,
UCLA - Bakotopia.com Contributor

So Oct. 11 was “National Coming Out Day.”

For the unfamiliar, that's the day closeted homosexuals are encouraged to reveal their sexuality as loudly and proudly as possible. It's not a real fun experience for a lot of people, though. As I returned home from class on this particular day I ran into a huge brouhaha on Bruin Walk, which is the main walkway between campus and my apartment.

There was a large circle of people and inside it was a gay man with a brightly colored flag, and a couple of old-fashioned rednecks with maybe three or four teeth between the both of them. The rednecks were carrying signs proclaiming "Homo Sex is Evil Sex" while the gay man pranced around them in a vain attempt to convince the rednecks that homosexuality is fine. No luck.



Everyone in the crowd sided with the gays because the rednecks were "bad people" who "didn't have open minds." As a result, there were a number of students attempting to talk with the rednecks as “adults.”  It is hilarious watching college students attempting to be civil and open minded.



It should have been plainly obvious by the way these men were shouting that some college kid using a soft tone of voice wasn't going to change anything. For being so smart, they sure picked a bad time to try and convince some white-trash rednecks they were wrong.

So, to my point (there is one, trust me). Amidst all the furor of shouting and being proud, both groups neglected something very important: THEY WERE BLOCKING THE WALKWAY! I didn't care what either group had to say, but if they had to make a point, they should have done it somewhere else, like on a dumb blog that nobody reads.



Bruin Walk presents enough challenges for passer-bys, where student groups hand out flyers and ask for money ad nauseam; we don't need 40 people in an attention-grabbing circle-jerk impeding our progress to get home.

My day would have been much better had the gays gone back to their apartment or dorm and the rednecks gone back to their 'unabomber-style' shacks.

If you're gay, fantastic. If you're a white-trash racist Christian, great! But the second I have to squeeze by either of you just because you want everyone in the world to know your views, you've crossed the line.

Leave it at home, and let me walk in peace.

*Originally printed in Bakotopia Magazine issue 14, 11 - 2 - 07
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