By Neil Corbett, The Maple Ridge – Pitt Meadows News
There was a lot of pride being taken in the work at Maple Ridge secondary on Wednesday morning.
Lorna Seip, from the MRSS grad class of 1991, was proud of her high school, as she oversaw the Rainbow Club painting a new emblem on the wall outside the main entrance.
Designed to be an image of diversity and inclusion, it combines colours of both the SOGI (sexual orientation, gender identity) and BIPOC (Black, indigenous, people of colour) flags, and beside it is the quote “None of us are equal until all of us are equal.”
Seip owns the Chilliwack-based painting company Two Girls on a Roll, and supervised the work for the Rainbow Club while the lighthearted activists painted, listened to music and munched pizza. The kids chose the design, and Seip thought it was fantastic.
She talked about her personal journey, and what that symbol might have meant, had it been on her school in 1991.
“I would have been able to come out a lot sooner, if I had support like this,” she said. “A visible sign is so important.”