Word: anties
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with their exploitation by members of the gay community and a number of Mather students--which quickly became divisive and hurtful. The problem is not so much the more general issue of homophobia but the persistent refusal to acknowledge that a mistake was made in linking Mather's exploding anti-homophobia campaign and the party incident...
...personal and delicate nature of the issue has made it difficult to bring cases of homophobic harassment to the public eye and to use them to mobilize campus awareness and concern, since victims are generally afraid to come forward with their complaints. Unfortunately, anti-homosexual bigotry is not alien to university life, and it is easy to understand the frustration which groups like Defeat Homophobia feel in trying to deal with the problem. One can therefore understand how quickly Defeat Homophobia was able to organize a Kiss-in at Mather to denounce homophobia after Sunday's confrontation...
...present anti-homophobe crusade at Mather would not have happened without the catalyst of 19 February: Defeat Homophobia explicitly cited it at the Kiss-in and manipulated it to turn the subsequent Mather House meeting into a soapbox for speeches against the harassment of homosexuals. Defeat Homophobia talks out of both sides of its mouth: at Mather, the incident on that Sunday and more general concerns about homophobia are "completely unrelated" (as they should be), but for outside consumption the incident of "homophobic violence" that night is the rallying-point for community outrage. In as many days, three Crimson pieces...
...ready to play hardball with the administration. Two weeks after the Harvard Alumni Association nominated Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole, former Democratic National Committee Chair Paul Kirk, and actor John Lithgow for the Board of Overseers, HRAAA responded by backing Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the world's leading anti-apartheid activists. Now, even the administration's list seems paltry in stature. Dole, Lithgow and Kirk have not won any Nobel Prizes...
...more sprinkles fell on Baker's parade when five Central American Presidents agreed to a plan that would disband the anti-Sandinista contras now holed up in Honduras in exchange for new guarantees of democracy by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. Though Baker had met with the Foreign Ministers of Honduras and Costa Rica only a week before, the State Department was caught flat-footed. Spokesman Charles Redman could only declare, "We weren't at the meeting. We'd like to find out more about...