So, at the end of april, there’s a little “you’re queer and you’re graduating” ceremony. I’m not sure whether I want to attend. I’d get a rainbow tassel. I might wear that at my real graduation if they let me.
Getting a word in edgewise
So, at the end of april, there’s a little “you’re queer and you’re graduating” ceremony. I’m not sure whether I want to attend. I’d get a rainbow tassel. I might wear that at my real graduation if they let me.
?!?!
Is this a normal practice? I’ve never heard of this before in graduating ceremonies.
Never heard of it before, hence my curiosity =)
Hmm – what do you have to have done to graduate from gay school?!
The course of study was long and hard, but I came into my own. =)
You came into your own? Wow that must’ve taken lots of stretching exercises, I bet you got a good grade!
If they let you? I wore my rainbow tassel when I walked. Graduating is about you, sir, so do whatever you want, regardless as to whether they *let* you.
Hmmm, so noted. Did anyone flip out?
Well, they kept asking if I wanted to have a tassel like the other kids had. I also walked in my suit instead of a robe. I think people pitied me.
If it’s Lavender graduation, I’m glad I did it, it was a nice ceremony with interesting guests.
Now if only my parents weren’t an hour late to it…
Three years later, and I still laugh about that.
Well, why not? I wore the rainbow tassel to real graduation at Berkeley.
UC Berkeley and UMN Twin Cities are actually two very different schools. =) Sadly.
Dang… no lavender graduation at U of T. I can imagine my dean’s face if I’d done that. I think she might have fainted! lol
Well, Canadians are more law-abiding and authority-trusting anyway. 😉
if they let you? aren’t there various tassels you can add to your cap based on the variosu organizations you are a part of or honors that you receive? I figured it was not unusual to see various types of tassels and sashes at graduation.
I intended that more as an “if they don’t freak out about it” than the way I phrased it, but oh well. =)
They won’t let you. But I would encourage you to go to Lavender Grad, it’s a lot of fun in a campy sort of way. That was the only graduation ceremony I went to. My parents drove up to watch it.
Well, I’m not going to try at the main university graduation. Frankly, I couldn’t imagine a more painful experience. I’m thinking of the Policy graduation.
Won’t let you how? Will they bar him from the stage? Send police? He can just switch it out at the last moment before walking.
The Humphrey is somewhat infamous for doing spot checks on the grads before they line up to walk. If they don’t agree with it, then they will ask you to remove the offending article, and then they will bar you from walking the stage. It’s not an anti gay thing, they’ll do if for anything.
Lavender graduation…sounds menacing.
I think you should. Doitdoitdoitdoit! It sounds like fun.