day 29: come out, come out, wherever you are!

Cool Feeling: Your best friend Jaime calling you in Texas from San Diego to giggle about the flier for National Coming Out Day plastered all over your old alma mater that happens to have your face on it. Not just your face, but you, stoned off your face making weird with a flamingo pen. (The pen has a whole other story to it.)

Turns out your old roommate thought the photo was cute and decided to give it over to the LGBTSU for the flier without asking your permission.

The kicker? You're straight (mostly) and your roommate who gave the photo of you for the flier? Global Assault Lesbian. (The angry kind who needs everyone in the world to know that SHE IS A LESBIAN JUSTLOOKATHERARMPITHAIR!!)

To say I was angry would be an understatement. It's not like we didn't talk. She could have asked. But I felt it in rather poor taste to use a photo of a girl who identifies herself as relatively straight for a coming out flier--it seemed against the point. If they'd have asked, I'd have gladly given permission. The friendship with the roommate ended then and there.

And Jaime? She totally regrets sending me the flier because I won't give it back. But I promised her I'd post this up for today's 365. Funny, the year it was posted (2000, I think), October 11 was also a Wednesday.