Feb 9, 2010

February 9, 2010

Attending: 23
Guests (Sehome High School GSA): 7

Welcome to Sehome High School’s Gay-Straight Alliance!
Check-ins: name, preferred pronouns, favorite form of activism
Review of Safe-Space Rules

Discussion on Boycotting
-“You only vote with a ballot once a year, but you vote with your dollar every day.”
-History of boycotts
--Montgomery Bus Boycott
--Florida Orange Juice
-Human Rights Campaign buyers guide
--Sent out a survey to a whole bunch of businesses, gave them a score on how gay friendly they are
--You can download this online!
-What do you boycott?
--Chik-fil-A
---See below
--Rockstar Energy Drinks
---Owner is just basically a bigot
--CBS
---Super Bowl commercials – refused gay dating site ad, included Focus on the Family ad
--Wal-Mart
---For many reasons
-Who is the “other side” boycotting?
--Pepsi
--McDonald’s
-Chik-fil-A
--Owner donates to Focus on the Family, doesn’t hire gay people or people who aren’t Christian, and WWU brought them to the west coast
--Let’s do something to get them off our campus!
---Switch our “Think About What You Say” event to Spring Quarter and do a Chik-fil-A event in March

Continuation of discussion on getting over internalized homonegativity
-How do you become proud of your identity?