Word: aguero
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Both members of the gay community and Republicans—many of whom cannot comprehend how a member of their group could possibly belong to the other—often spurn people like Aguero. “When some people find out I’m gay and conservative,” Aguero says, “they act like I’m a mutant or something...
...Aguero adds that “being gay is part of who I am as a person and it in no way interferes or changes the political and social views I hold. How does being gay relate to what I think about tax credits? Why does my sexual orientation have to determine how I feel about the death penalty...
...Still, Aguero says he feels alienated—not least of all from the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA), because it is too hostile towards his conservative ideology...
...feel that the BGLTSA at Harvard is an extremely liberal and radical group with views that are almost entirely divergent from my own,” Aguero, who is also a Crimson editor, writes in an e-mail. “They politicize their events and activities so much that I have no desire or interest to go to anything because they always seem to be the same argument against the President, the government, the conservatives, the military, the Republicans, over and over again...
...story at the Harvard Republican Club goes a little differently. Nestled within the notoriously liberal Harvard community, the HRC seems relatively welcoming to all conservatives, including queers, according to Aguero. “I think that the HRC does a good job of reaching out, though because of the overwhelmingly liberal climate on this campus its efforts go very much unnoticed,” he says...