When the video ended, the room was completely silent. Finally whispers broke amongst the crowd and Mercedes stood and began to clap. After a moment the rest of glee followed. Then the cheerios. Then the rest of the senior class. Within a minute nearly the entire school was on their feet. The only people who weren't clapping were some of the football team including Azimio and a nervous looking Karofsky, and Mr. Peters.
Figgins came forward holding the microphone and gestured for the crowd to be seated.
"After a vote amongst the teachers in which Sue Sylvesters vote counts as fifty percent as state the terms of her contract which I've never seen, the winner of the McKinley High Short-film festival is Kurt Hummel!"
Within moments everyone was back on their feet cheering.
"Yes, yes. Now as is the terms of the contest, Kurt's video will be played on local cable, channel 2, at 6 PM. It will also be sent to the state Short-film competition to be submitted there, and a recommendation letter will be sent on Kurt's behalf to the college of his choice from the art director Miss Philips. Thank you all for attending, please exit the gym in a calm and orderly fashion."
True to McKinley High tradition, half an hour later Kurt's video was on youtube.
Two hours later it was spread across social media.
By that night, there was a "Day in the life of a fag" fan page and twitter account which was currently being manned by the cheerios.
By the next morning, the film was national. The video had in fact been played on local cable. Then again on the eight o-clock news. Then again on the morning news.
All across social media, pages declared "Support Kurt" in rainbow colors. A photo of Kurt's injuries made its way across sites with tags like #WhoIsTheRealProblem and #WhatsTheGreaterSin and # PublicSchoolSystem and #SupportHummel.
People were calling out for blood. Figgins' job was on the line, and In order to keep it he had fired Mr. Peters before the night was through.
The school board was being crucified, and new anti-bullying and gay bashing rules were being put in to effect Although they still held their ground and refused to bring trouble to past offenders stating the rules hadn't been put in place at the time.
On a seemingly normal day, the town of Lima Ohio shifted.
The first few classes of the day had been canceled and declared a study hall while mandatory staff meetings took place. Of course, no one actually bothered to study so when Brittany Pierce and Santana Lopez where the first to walk into the school, everyone who had been standing around and gossiping took notice.
Brittney Set up a table while Santana pulled out a box of bright red name tags.
The entire school watched as Santana and Brittany each filled one out and pinned it to the others shirt.
Hello, my name is
Dyke.
Hello, my name is
Stupid.
The next to enter were Mercedes and Artie.
Both filled out their tags and stuck them proudly.
Hello, my name is
Fat.
Hello, My name is
Cripple.
One by one the glee kids walked in, signing and pinning their labels.
The last to enter, Rachel, Quinn, Finn, and Kurt Hummel himself.
All of them were wearing matching T-shirts.
Hello, my name is
Fag.
As the school stood watching, Rachel Berry held tight to the hand of Quinn Fabray and Finn Hudson finally kissed his boyfriend of three years.