All-Sexuality Support Group meeting, Thursday after classes

[mississippiqueen]

The group name wasn't a lie: it really was for students of any and every sexuality -- however, if you didn't go into that classroom ready to get your same-gender-kissy on, the chance that you'd leave the same way was... fairly low. What with the rainbow-colored glitter on every available surface.

That was Emmett showing restraint. He almost took a trip to the flower shop too, but Gabrielle persuaded him that ordering enough roses to decorate every chair in the tastefully-arranged semi-circle three days before Valentine's Day would result in the employees of Covent Garden Flowers putting out a contract on him, and not the fun kind with a collar and a safeword. Okay, so Gabrielle hadn't actually used the word 'safeword,' but the sentiment was completely intact, thank you very much. As was her earnest make-people-feel-welcome smile, completely untainted by WTF because she hadn't yet figured out what the group's acronym stood for.

She had also not yet realized that she'd be picking rainbow glitter out of everything she owned for days.

"Hi, everyone," she began. "And thanks for coming to the first meeting of the All-Sexuality Support Group."

Oh, just abbreviate it, Gabrielle, and figure it out already so you can give Emmett that look. You know. That one.

The one that would get 'Oh my stars and garters, does that really spell a naughty word?' in reply from Emmett, and then he'd find himself on the business end of her staff, which sounds fun but isn't, so he was going to enjoy her ignorance while it lasted. "My lovely co-hostess is Gabrielle and I'm Emmett, and if this were a Gay-Straight Alliance, I'd be the gay one." He shot a look towards Gabrielle. "But it's not, because life can get a lot more complex than just gay and straight."

Gabrielle narrowed her eyes, shook her head, and twitched both hands in the air. "Why do you keep giving me that look?" See. This is the point he was trying to make. "Anyway, we thought we'd start off with introductions today. I know, I know, you probably all thought we were done with that by now. It's one more time, you'll be fine."

[Open! Written with the lovely ancientbschamp.]

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Arrive/Mingle

[mississippiqueen]

There are pigs-in-a-blanket and melon balls, because Emmett is subtle and because he wants to be a party planner when he grows up to be a real boy.

However, he's fifteen. Thus the glitter.

Re: Arrive/Mingle

[future_sandworm]

He had signed up for this club mostly out of curiosity, but he was here. Picking up one of thos sausage things, he took a seat, trying to avoid the glitter.

He failed on that last part.

Re: Arrive/Mingle

[wantstodirect]

Tony was going to ignore the symbolism and just fill up on snack foods, thanks.

Re: Arrive/Mingle

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

Bless her, Sookie didn't understand the symbolism behind the food. She was concentrating harder on keeping her shields up -- this being a safe space, and all -- and looking at the glitter. Wow.

Re: Arrive/Mingle

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine kind of vaguely got the symbolism, but assumed she was just being dirty-minded. Besides, she was hungry. Thus she had a paper plate full of both items. It gave her something to do besides look nervous and stick to Katchoo like glue.

Re: Arrive/Mingle

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Katchoo wasn't the support group type (unless you maybe wanted to throw her into Alcoholics Anonymous, which let's face it, she could use), and she was really just here for Francine's sake. And glaring mildly at Gabrielle. And let's all take a moment to be glad Kennedy wasn't here, or there'd be some non-bunny-like growling coming from one Katina Choovanski.

She was eyerolling at the food, but she was sure that was all Emmett, there.

Re: Arrive/Mingle

[bitten_notshy]

Jack took a few melon balls and scoped out the group, curious who else had come to this. (He understood that, symbolically, he should have taken a little of each,, but there was a whole not-eating-pork thing that overruled choosing an appropriately symbolic snack.)

Re: Arrive/Mingle

[likethegun]

Sam snickered at the food, because deep down he could still be fourteen sometimes, but didn't take any, perfectly content to mingle without trying to eat at the same time.

Re: Arrive/Mingle

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin was there. Vaguely confused, but happy with the food, but there.

Mmmm. Meat.

Re: Arrive/Mingle

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

Hayley kept snagging melon balls throughout the meeting. Hey, they were tasty.

Introductions

[mississippiqueen]

"Here, I'll start you off," Emmett said, even though he'd already done this in their opening spiel.

"I'm Emmett, I'm a sophomore, and I'm gay, which for those of you who just arrived from Saturn, the North Pole or the middle ages, means I'm a boy who likes boys. You don't have to tell us that if you don't want to or haven't figured it out, though. What you can tell us is somebody famous that you find attractive. Doesn't have to be somebody you'd sleep with: I think Gwen Stefani has exquisite bone structure, but I wouldn't sleep with her if she were wearing a strap-on and a fake mustache."

So, you know. Keep your introductions polite and clean.

Re: Introductions

[future_sandworm]

"I'm Leto Atreides," he began, "And I'm from the planet of Arrakis about 20,000 years into the future. We don't necessarily see the need for strict definitions of sexuality in my time, but I'm here to understand this time better." He paused, smiling a little. "I'm not familiar with the celebrities of Earth, but Helen of Troy was a quite attractive woman."

He had been searching through his ancestral memories of those ancient times enough to actually know.

Re: Introductions

[wantstodirect]

"I'm Tony, I'm a senior and I'm gay," Tony said. He could bring up Lee, but that felt too much like bragging. "Johnny Depp's really hot, though he sounds like he's kind of a douche in person."

Re: Introductions

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

"I'm Gabrielle," said the girl who was wearing ridiculously few clothes for the weather outside, but didn't seem to be showing any ill effects from it because the weather wasn't relevant to what she was doing here. "I'm a sophomore, I'm from three thousand years in the past, and I'm, um . . . recently widowed?"

Yeah. Try not to think about that one too much, okay?

"I don't have a great track record with boys, but I've met a lot of attractive ones." Gabrielle? The universe was trying to tell you something. "David of the Israelites comes to mind . . . but you know, if he'd told me he was engaged before he started reading his psalms to me . . ."

Sigh. She shook her head. Over it. Right. "I have to agree with Leto, though, about Helen of Troy. I've met her, and she really is that attractive, but I still think Xena has the edge there."

Gabrielle: up to her neck in denial before she ever made it as far as Egypt.

Re: Introductions

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"I'm Sookie, I'm a junior, and I'm straight," she said with a little blush, waving shyly. "Um, I've just...known too many people afraid to come out, and wish there was somethin' like this at home. And, um, I actually think Vin Diesel's* pretty attractive, even if his movies are awful pointless."




[*...canon. sigh.]

Re: Introductions

[thatsamilkshake]

Oh. Right. The talking part. She never had a problem finding her larynx for Support Services meetings, sigh.

"I'm Francine. I'm a senior, and..." Right. Right. She reached for Katchoo's hand. "I'm with her."

Hey, for her, that was coming out.

Re: Introductions

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

Any glaring that had been going on was just going to have to get shunted aside for now in favor of Katchoo's half-stunned, half-amazed expression topped with (rainbow) candy sprinkles of pride; she hadn't been expecting Francine to admit to that much right away.

So anyway, sitting there, squeezing Francine's hand, and almost grinning. "Katina. Senior. I'm not gay; I just don't like men. And yeah, I'm with her."

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Any telepathic dogs on the island would be going nuts about now.

Re: Introductions

[bitten_notshy]

"I'm Jack, I'm a senior, I'm ... I think the term is bisexual." He'd never be entirely comfortable with putting it that way. Labels, ugh. "I don't pay much attention to modern celebrities, but George Clooney isn't bad, and neither is Rosario Dawson."

Re: Introductions

[oops-mbad.livejournal.com]

Diana had shifted the possibilities around herself and Samuel to keep any glitter from getting stuck to anything. It still somehow managed to get stuck to everything. Glitter was like that. "I'm Diana, I like girls, and like half the planet at this point, Angelina Jolie." She held up the cat. "This is Samuel, he's a cat." Who was now covered in glitter.

Re: Introductions

[likethegun]

Sam took a look around before starting to talk.

"I'm Sam," he said. "I'm a senior, and I guess I'd say I'm bisexual? I've had a girlfriend and a boyfriend and I kind of find everybody attractive, so...anyway, uh, I don't know about Helen of Troy, but Diane Kruger's really pretty and she played her once, so...yeah." At least all the words were in relatively the right order.

Re: Introductions

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"Hello," Merlin said, looking more than just a bit nervous. "I'm Merlin and... bisexual? Is that right? The google said that's the right term, but it also brought up a number of pictures that--"

Not exactly things you talk about in public.

"Yes. Do I have to pick someone famous?"

He only knew people as 'oh, that bloke with the nice teeth' or 'the woman who keeps taking off her dress in movies'.

Questions/Suggestions?

[mississippiqueen]

"We're all sort of figuring this out as we go, but if anybody has something they want to talk or ask about today, or an activity they think would be fun to do later on -- that we could get away with calling school-sponsored -- whip it out!"

Talk to the Leaders

[mississippiqueen]

Peer facilitators? Clueless dorks? Tomato, tomahto.

After they ping in.

Re: Talk to the Leaders

[mississippiqueen]

Emmett would be wandering around nibbling blanket-pigs. Nom.

Talk to Mitchell

[mississippiqueen]

Look, a faculty sponsor! They're all official-like! And he's hot! And this was here all along!

Re: Talk to Mitchell

[chosehumanity]

As was Mitchell! He'd been there all along.

Not entirely sure how he'd been roped into it, but he wasn't exactly one to judge. You got old, with time, you tried things-- well, some things. He'd only seen the scat once, okay? He hung back and let them do the talking.

OOC

[mississippiqueen]

Shut up.

Re: OOC

[glacial_queen]

d'awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!

*hugs Francine and Katchoo*