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In article <Pine.A32.3.90b.941008100209.104149A-100000@homer15.u.washington.edu>, Loren Meissner <lmeissne@u.washington.edu> writes:
> National Coming Out Day is celebrated in the U.S. on Oct 11.
> 
> Is it also celebrated in Canada as well?
> 
> Specifically, are there any Coming Out Day 
> plans for Vancouver Canada and UBC ?
> 
> Please post your replies to this list for all to see.
> 
> Unless your message specifically states to the contrary
> any personal e-mail I receive on this subject, I will assume I have 
> permission to repost to pnw.motss,can.motss and gaynet newsgroups.
> 

No events in Ottawa that I'm aware of.  As for myself, I am
wearing a white t-shirt that says in medium size black lettering:

            I won't assume you're gay,
            if you don't assume I'm straight.

I work for a very large company(there are 4000 of us at the site
I work at).  I went into a new job within the same company about
4 months ago where people don't yet, for the most part, know I'm
gay.  My co-workers from my-old job did.  It will be fun on
Tuesday to see how they take it.

There were many shirts I could have chosen to buy and wear, but
this one had the right combination of in-your-faceness and 
a thought provoking statement.  The culture where I work strikes
me as one where people don't even think about things that they
don't have to.  They're smart people, but they carry all these
assumptions that we all live in the Burbs with spouses and 2.456865
kids.  I am just looking to make people check their assumptions.

I will post a followup telling how it went, assuming I get any
reaction at all from my conservative-sheltered co-workers ....
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