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on Friday, April 16th. Day of Silence 2010 will be held once again.
The goal is to go from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. or as long as possible without speaking.

This is to raise awareness for those of the gay, lesbian, or bisexual community all over the world who have had to stay silent about their feelings for fear of not being accepted by today's society.
Every year, we see improvement in this issue, but the battle goes on.

I know this is not a vampire- based event, but I know that many members on V.R. are part of the gay community, and this can tie into vampiryc ways. Please keeps this thread open.

Remember, silence speaks louder than words.

AWSOME!

I agree, im quite excited..!

I will most certainly try to do this as well for I am bisexual. That is going to be really, really hard for me to be quiet for that long! lol I'm going to have to stay on the computer for it I reckon. Anyone else planning on participating?

I would....but i work in retail, quite hard to sell stuff without talking :(

AWESOME! I know many people that are in the LGBT community on and off VR and can get the word around very quickly about this event.

awesome! I will definitely be participating in this.

I think if you have to talk as a part of your job, than it is okay. Or if you have to talk for an important reason, it's alright, but be quiet as long as you can, ya know?

This is the third year I'm participating in day of silence and a good thing to do is create a note card or something to hand to people if they ask why you aren't talking. Make's getting through the day a bit easier.

Many of my friends are gay...what a nice way to
show our support.

I'm in

Yep, me too. Don't know how long I'm gonna be able to go without yellin at my husband's driving. (He tends to drive off the road like, alll the time). But I will do my best!! Maybe I will just have to drive for the day. When is it again??

Awww ccrap!! I just noticed...the day of silence is on April 16th! That is me and Carnage's 2 yr wedding anniversary :( I don't think I can participate :(

The easiest way to let people know is to wear a sign on your shirt...

Yes, exactly- just be as silent as you possibly can, but don't get in trouble for it!

i'm in, thou i also have little option when it comes to doing my job, i'll alter my schedule to keep me at the desk and away from ppl (hmm.. kinda like that idea already lol)

Thank you for posting this, I completely forgot about it last year.
I did this before and I had a shirt that said DoS on the front and Day of Silence on the back.
With that I was able to explain to people why I wasn't taling.

Oh yeah. I'm definitely participating. I've got quite a lot of friends in the LGBT community too. Totally in support of it.

I have a good idea for those that might have to talk (due to jobs and whatnot). If you can print out like one of those awareness ribbons they have and like tape it or wear it somewhere, that always works. I did that last year at work and taped it to my shirt, though I didn't speak either. Thankfully I knew enough sign language from three co-workers of mine that are deaf and also could read lips so I could mouth words too (but I'd really like to learn more sign language). Or if you have something rainbow, I guess you could wear that too along with a sign like someone suggested too? Maybe that might work.

(Boy is my dad going to hate me when I visit my parent's later today. My mom knows and supports too as well as my brother but my dad is a total homophobe. Ugh. Some days I'd like to smack him for some of the very rude remarks he makes. *eye twitch*)

Just ignore him. I am having a silent night since I had to talk during the day. It takes a lot of self restraint for me to not say anyhting because i have adhd and im naturally loud, hyper and talkative

Oh yeah. I ignored him. He didn't seem to ask anything. Oh I know that feeling too wanting to talk. I just like to try to get my point across to some people or just have stories to share. I can get hyper and loud at times too. But I managed to last the day without talking only when I was kind of forced to. T__T Stupid people calling grr. And then a classmate of mine calling to ask for a ride home so I kind of had to talk a little without an uncomfortable silence. Don't think he knew it was Day of Silence even though I mentioned it in class on Thursday since we have a couple of gay guys (who are so sweet and awesome) and a few bi girls (including my roommate/friend).

I participated in DOS. For the most part i'm home all day anyway and nobody to talk to so it was easy to not talk. My sister was home all day and was sleepin most of the time so it didn't matter. I was also not feeling good and slept most of the day as well to try and get/feel better. It was only until after my dad came to get me and my sister to go see a few friends when I had to talk but even after I didn't talk much.

I was able to go the rest of the night without talking surprisingly LOL! ♥

i was able to do it yay as i also bi and felt the need to participate

Sorry that I was not aware of this........I would have supported your cause.