A coffee cup featuring a quote from a gay author has been pulled off the shelves of Baylor University, which is a Baptist College.
The Starbucks at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, has pulled coffee cups featuring an author’s quote about growing up gay.
The quote comes from novelist Armistead Maupin, who gained fame through his “Tales of the City” series.
The quote on the cups reads: “My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don’t make that mistake yourself. Life’s too damn short.”
Aramark, the dining contractor, pulled the cups from the campus store after an e-mail said the quote was inappropriate at a Baptist university.
Now is that really appropriate? The author was just revealing his feelings and stating a fact, I don’t see where the cup had to be pulled. I’m sure Baylor has some GLBT students, what message is that sending to them? Shame on you Baylor University!
I can understand how Armistead Maupin felt. I supressed my true gay desires all my life until I
got fed up and decided to come out. My first experience was at a gay bathhouse which I found
through Bath House Guide, and I met a nice man who I am now in love with. We live together
in an apartment, but it was not until I decided to come out in spite of what everyone thought
that I became free and my repression left me for good.
Eddie