has apparently become the first state in the union to reject an anti-gay-marriage constitutional amendment in a popular vote. Several others passed them (the one in Virginia is particularly bad).
Virginia is the most homophobic state EVER. Ugh. And right now, I hate my home state for once again going all anti-gay (Colorado). Plus that homophobe Marilyn Musgrave won again. Grrrrrrr.
Having been a male college student there, I can attest to this. In the boys' dorms at William and Mary (in the late 1980s, at least), if you didn't proclaim your hatred for The Fags at every opportunity, people thought you'd give them AIDS by sneezing. And in the rest of the state, W&M was known as the Gay School.
Well, these days George Mason is a pretty liberal school, as are various sections of Fairfax County (what with all the computer nerds who live there). It's not all bad. It's just mostly bad.
The Brookfield subdivision in Chantilly in the Seventies and Eighties.
I was Chantilly High School class of 1986, though the last year of that I was actually attending classes at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (in its first year of operation--for the three years before its first true graduating class matured, they had a special program just for seniors who would graduate with a sort of dual diploma. It was peculiar in that the preexisting Thomas Jefferson High School in the same building was being phased out at the same time, some classes were shared between the two schools, and there was some tension between the two sets of students.)
I remember when TJ opened...we lost one of our best English teachers (Pam Curtis) to y'all. (It about killed our English Team, too.)
You mention the tension thing; a friend of mine out here went to Tucson's magnet high school which was, on an ongoing basis, co-located with one of the normal high schools. I'll have to ask her if she was aware of any tension there.
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Date: 2006-11-08 04:06 pm (UTC)Still, Rick Santorum losing in PA was nice news.
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Date: 2006-11-08 04:52 pm (UTC)Having been a male college student there, I can attest to this. In the boys' dorms at William and Mary (in the late 1980s, at least), if you didn't proclaim your hatred for The Fags at every opportunity, people thought you'd give them AIDS by sneezing. And in the rest of the state, W&M was known as the Gay School.
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Date: 2006-11-08 05:30 pm (UTC)My gay friends who live there want to move out.
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Date: 2006-11-09 01:53 am (UTC)Dav2.718
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Date: 2006-11-09 02:59 am (UTC)I was Chantilly High School class of 1986, though the last year of that I was actually attending classes at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (in its first year of operation--for the three years before its first true graduating class matured, they had a special program just for seniors who would graduate with a sort of dual diploma. It was peculiar in that the preexisting Thomas Jefferson High School in the same building was being phased out at the same time, some classes were shared between the two schools, and there was some tension between the two sets of students.)
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Date: 2006-11-09 04:27 am (UTC)I remember when TJ opened...we lost one of our best English teachers (Pam Curtis) to y'all. (It about killed our English Team, too.)
You mention the tension thing; a friend of mine out here went to Tucson's magnet high school which was, on an ongoing basis, co-located with one of the normal high schools. I'll have to ask her if she was aware of any tension there.
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