Breakfast at Tiffany's – Because I Do Not Know

Cut The Queer Cups

At Baylor University, even the coffee cups must remain in the closet.

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.

I'd have to disagree. I can't think of a better place for it. After all, without the homos, you Baptists wouldn't have any choir leaders or pianists.

5 comments Jake McCafferty last posted at 5:46 PM
__________

5 Comments:

i read about this from towleroad, i laughed. then i remembered i was sitting in class.

and i laughed again.

maupin's sextet series was and is a keystone of my understanding and acceptance of queer life/soceity. i'm still really happy that starbucks had chosen him to be on cups.

btw, was reading confederacy as part of my summer reading, but things got busy and it fell by the wayside.

By kinkyrhombus, at 9:55 PM

People need to light up when they're censoring coffee cups for goodness' sake!

Take heart in this qoute from my Jane Austen mug:

"Follies and nonsense,whims and inconsistencies do divert me I own,and
I laugh at them whenever I can"

By lady t, at 6:38 AM

Well, I for one think it was the right decision for Baylor to remove the cups, I heard the students were catching "the gay" just by holding the cups in their hands.

By Matt S., at 12:59 PM

Ceiting, do you want me to tell you how it ends? LOL

Lady T, as always, thanks for bringing some intellect to BaT. Stand by for a d*ck joke to bring it back down to its normal level ...

And Matt, I don't think what they are holding in their hands that made them gay are cups. ;-)

By Jake McCafferty, at 5:33 PM

If Matt meant "kups," however, he might be on to something...

By Jay Six, at 7:13 PM