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Ellen Convisser, president of the Boston branch of the National Organization for Women (NOW), says students are "the heart of the [abortion rights] movement and will continue to be." She says about 6000 participants from the Boston area came to the Washington rally.
But homophobia is. Webster's 1980 "newly revised" dictionary does not have an entry for the word, so we point to Audre Lourde's definition: "A terror surrounding feelings of love for members of the same sex and thereby a hatred of those feelings in others." As you might expect...
The Marines' search for "A Few Good Men" does not include gay men. When the Army exhorts us to "Be All That We Can Be," they don't want us to be lesbians or bisexuals. Members of a sexual minority who are out of the closet and proud would not...
Homophobia is only one manifestation of the need to scapegoat. Xenophobia and racism are also used to dehumanize, and thus to scapegoat the enemy. Misogyny, with its unmitigated assertion of superiority and justification of violence, is widespread--witness the incidence of rape as an act of war, the harassment of...
And Cornell activist Janette M. Hillis was disappointed that only about 350 of the university's 12,000 undergraduates attended the rally. At Cornell, she says, "People are so uptight about work that they forget about the world out there."