Facebook Observation

Hello All,
  So as I have mentioned in my last blog, I was doing a facebook observation about coming out day 2010. Which was on Tuesday! On Wednesday I read a few articles about how in certain areas so many as 30 men came out and now are living the life that they feel best suites them. Congratulations to all who braved Coming Out Day 2010. I also learned something interesting. New gang initiations are to kill homosexuals, men mainly in New York City. So I give a lot of credit to those men who came out especially in the New York area. Although, this gang initiations are focusing on men, some women are killed as well. They said that this current gang might take it to the next level and killing homosexuals may start on a regular basis. Just a little information that I thought was interesting. So since Tuesday was the official United States wide Coming Out Day, the Human Rights Campaigned asked everyone; heterosexual and homosexual to donate their status for just one day. So that it shows awareness to people everywhere. It surprised me on how little a number decided to do this, either they are not aware of how important it was or they just did not care.
   Out of the 778 friends that I have on facebook only 11 people posted about national coming out day and that appalled me. Only three of them were female- student athletes, no males, and one trans-gender posted it. And it is not like no one knew about it because it was posted all over facebook for days. The thing that really gets me is that homosexuals that I know are out in the open, did not do anything about it. If they can not stand up for people like themselves, then why should heterosexuals stand up for the homosexuals. I mean yes it is just a facebook posting, but still it was an important one.