When two men marched around the Free Speech Zone on Wednesday carrying signs declaring "Homo sex is sin," students proved we are a campus with a conscience. We demonstrated our abilities as thoughtful citizens beyond the classroom, protesting these men's hateful words.
Students nearby were promoting a different message - one of acceptance and unity as part of National Coming Out Week.
Five-hundred T-shirts with the words, "Gay? Fine by me" sprawled across the front flew off Program Board's table in just 15 minutes.
Students, gay and straight, proudly wore the shirts; some followed with pink signs and marched up to the protestors, questioning and challenging intolerance at its human roots.
We demonstrated that straight people can have gay pride, too. On Wednesday, people of different sexual orientations loudly proclaimed that USC will not tolerate homophobia.
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