Pride Meeting, First Floor Rec Room, Wednesday After Classes

[wasthecuteone]

The cupcakes this week were just Funfetti, as Petra hadn't had the time or the budget for anything fancier, but sometimes you just had to have Funfetti, and still: cupcakes. To drink, Petra had provided coffee milk, the drink of her people (Rhode Islanders), along with regular old plain milk and chocolate milk, and soda for those who weren't feeling the milk. Also, the enormous, sparkly 'PRIDE!' banner was hung up along one wall.

"Hi, guys!" Petra said once people had stopped arriving. "I'm Petra, and I started the club so I guess I'm in charge here. So, business first. Apparently I didn't make this clear enough at first, my bad, I've never run anything like this before, but this is an LGBTQ Pride Club, which stands," yes, she was going for the small words here, "for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Questioning. Or Queer. If this isn't the club you meant to join, no big, you can leave now or you can stay if you want. Vice Principal Deadpool has agreed to be our club sponsor," even if he did think it had something to do with tracking down some kids, "so let's hear it for him, and I have a jar set up by the cupcakes, and if anyone wants to throw in a dollar or two toward snacks that would be great, because I'm kind of..." she pulled a face. "Not made of money.

"So, okay, this week I want to keep everything pretty low-key, and if at any time someone's feeling uncomfortable or like this is not a safe space, please speak up. That said, if someone's feeling uncomfortable or like this isn't a safe space because you're straight and you feel like your straightness is being 'threatened,' you have three options. One, get over it. Two, you might want to think about whether you belong in our Q ranks. Three, there's the door, you know how to use it. That said, I'd like everybody to introduce themselves, give your year, tell us a little about yourself, and you can say why you joined the club if you want to, and then I'd like to hear any ideas you have for things we can do in the club this year. Okay? Okay."

((Open to all Pride members and anyone who'd like to join who didn't get a chance at the Club Fair!))

Comments

Arrive/Mingle

[wasthecuteone]

There are cupcakes. Check 'em out.

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[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

Nom nom nom who cares if they're not super-special? Cupcakes!

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[its-theclimb.livejournal.com]

Miley was looking shifty, and had a hoodie and sunglasses on to guard her identity. No, the other identity. The real one.

She did, however, slightly blow her cover when she dropped a cupcake on her foot and muttered, "Sweet niblets!"

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[walkswithcoyote]

Mercy had a cupcake when she came in. They really were quite good. Plus it gave her something to do with her hands while she waited for things to get started.

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[onapalebicycle.livejournal.com]

George snagged a cupcake. When in doubt, food was good. It gave you something to do with your hands, and you could shove it into your face and use that as an excuse not to talk.

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[life_inshadow]

Oh, hey, cupcakes. Tara could get down with that. She still wasn't a huge joiner, but she couldn't deny being interested in seeing who would come to this meeting.

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[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

Firekeeper hadn't attended the Club Fair, and she didn't have the faintest idea what Pride did or represented. Mostly... she was here because she'd caught the scent of sweets.

So, she looked around at the other occupants of the room as she snagged a cupcake before finding a spot to sprawl with Blind Seer on the floor.

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[knight-fatali.livejournal.com]

Petra's cupcakes apparently bring everyone to the yard and the player just got smacked for even THINKING that, so Seifer wasn't surprised to see a room full.

He was just going to grab his cupcake and sit down. And blink a bit confusedly at Miley.

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[new-it-girl.livejournal.com]

Hanna was in a social mood and this seemed like a good place for that. The cupcakes were a bonus.

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[trigons_child]

How could Raven resist a group called "Pride"? Or, well, cupcakes?

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[selfhelphero]

Billy was good and only took one cupcake, nibbling at it bit by bit to make it try to last longer. It gave him something to do while he subtly peeked around to see who else was here.

Introductions!

[wasthecuteone]

Introduce yourselves!

((As always, feel free to mark a thread NFB if you don't want something broadcast to the entire island.))

Re: Introductions!

[wasthecuteone]

"So, like I said, hi, I'm Petra, I'm a junior and I'm from Rhode Island, I like sewing, reading, and singing, I want to be an actress, I love old Hollywood, and I'm transgender. MTF. Hence founding this fabulous club for us. Oh, and I'm a Student Council representative for the junior class, so if you have any concerns you want to bring to me I'm happy to listen."

Re: Introductions!

[its-theclimb.livejournal.com]

Now that her cover was pretty much blown, Miley awkward-stealthed her way over to where the people were. "Hi," she said, half-waving. "I'm Miley. I'm a senior, I'm from Tennessee and recently LA, I wanna be a -- " She thought of the lie she'd told Freddie -- "backup dancer, and I'm not any of that stuff, but I promise I'm cool with it."

Said a bit nervously. But truthfully.

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[walkswithcoyote]

"I'm Mercy and I'm a sophomore. I grew up in Aspen Creek, Montana." She was going with that since she wasn't sure she'd ever feel like she was 'from' where her mom lived. "I like to read and be outdoors and I enjoy history and working on cars. I'm straight, but where I grew up I got a lot of flack for being different from everyone else, so I'm all in favor of people being able to freely be whoever they are."

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[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"Kenzi," she waved while peeling the paper off another cupcake. "I'm from Canada, and straight but hey, who knows, right? Dating Toby, and I'm TA for Mr. Caffrey, who's awesome. One of my best friends is bi, and she's pretty well-adjusted about it all, but I'd like to show support." And how weird was it that she had stuff to tell the truth about now?

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[exactlyaverage.livejournal.com]

"Hi," Jack said standing up. "I'm Jack. I'm from Eureka, Oregon and I'm a baseball kind of guy. I'm a Dodger fan so you know I live in constant disappointment. I'm a junior and... I'm here to support the cause."

Re: Introductions!

[onapalebicycle.livejournal.com]

"Hi," George said, awkwardly. "I, uh. I'm George. I'm from Seattle. I'm all supportive and so on. My parents are getting a divorce and apparently my dad's gay? So I guess I don't know as much about the issue as I should. He's still my dad, and all. I, uh, don't like that he's cheating on Mom, but I'm sorry he's been living a lie. I mean, that's not cool. But I also think it's kind of skeezy that he's fucking a grad student, not 'cause he's gay but because hi, he's in his forties, and it's one of his grad students? Isn't that against the University by-laws, anyway?"

She stopped, abruptly. "I have no idea," she said. "Um. Gay pride. And transgender and bisexual and, uh, I signed up to ... learn to be a better ally, which I'm not. Very much. Right now. Thanks."

Re: Introductions!

[life_inshadow]

So was practically everyone here straight? Yay support, and everything, and not that Tara was anywhere over Kennedy enough to want a new girlfriend, but she had still been sort of hoping there'd be somebody ... you know. Crushworthy.

Oh well.

"Hey," she began. "I'm Tara, I'm a senior, originally from this tiny town in Northern California, I'm a Wiccan, I'm ... normally pretty shy in groups. Um. Oh, and I'm gay."

Re: Introductions!

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"My name is Blysse, and he is Blind Seer," she gestured to the very large wolf she sat leaning against. "We is in senior year here, and from a world very different from this one," she didn't know what many of the words people were using to describe themselves meant, so she plowed on: "We growed up together, with a Royal Wolf pack in the mountains just beyond a human kingdom named Hawk Haven."

Re: Introductions!

[knight-fatali.livejournal.com]

"Hey all, I'm Seifer," the blond guy said as he tossed his cupcake wrapper in the trash. "I'm from a world where no one really cares who is sleeping with who. I originally considered myself straight, but apparently the island likes me to be very flexible."

He was being very serious about that too.

Hanging Out

[wasthecuteone]

There are still cupcakes, but now that we know one another a little better, feel free to mingle more freely.

Re: Hanging Out

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

Sugar craaaash. And also: "So, those workshops, we can drag in people who need to know stuff, right? Nicely?" Topher.

Talk to the Club Leader

[wasthecuteone]

Petra is here to hear your concerns. Or just chat.

Re: Talk to the Club Leader

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"Is all Pride about cupcakes?" Tony asked, stealing one because they were there and delicious.

Talk to the Faculty Advisor

[wasthecuteone]

Once he pings in. Good luck getting sense out of him.

Re: Talk to the Faculty Advisor

[mouthy-merc.livejournal.com]

Heeeeey. He made perfect sense! Kind of. If you listened juuuuust right.

But he was indeed there. With a kid. Because Jan had gotten hooked on this horrible new show (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elephant_Princess) and needed to spend time away from the television.

OOC

[wasthecuteone]

To keep the internet from falling out.

Someone please let me know if I screwed anything up.

Re: OOC

[its-theclimb.livejournal.com]

I'M SO SORRY, PETRA. AND EVERYONE ELSE. GOD, MILEY.