Word: bgltq
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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...week Pappin’s letter was published, the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) launched a postering campaign that allowed students to mark their rooms “BGLTQ safe spaces...
...were overjoyed at the sudden omnipresence of these alternatively-desiring young people. Certainly a variety of heartwarming spectacles were available for our delectation: from the festive kiss-in to drag bingo, from the Day of Silence to “Camp,” the cleverly-titled bgltq dance. With Gaypril, the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) intended to “fight homophobia” and increase queer visibility at Harvard...
...hired for a two-year position at Harvard as a postdoctoral fellow. It was an amazing opportunity to teach literature, theory and gender studies, and I really enjoyed it. You know, people have spent a lot of time talking about how Harvard doesn’t support BGLTQ work. It’s quite true that the field needs further institutional support here, but I was hired here precisely to teach in this field. The territory is uneven but by no means uniformly bleak! But, yes, my term is up, and I am going to teach at the University...
Smith also misunderstands the purpose behind the BGLTSA’s distribution of “BGLTQ safe space” door signs. The signs were not a means of sidestepping Pappin’s argument, they were a means of turning extremist doctrine into a teachable moment. The signs did not silence Pappin or anyone else—rather, they gave students a way to publicly disagree with Pappin and to affirm their conviction that BGLTQ students are valuable members of the College community. The signs remind us that while Harvard is a fairly welcoming place for BGLTQ students...
...they suggested that the letter was a sign of escalating “homophobia” at Harvard. To further draw attention to the problem of homophobia, on one of the most accepting and inclusive campuses in the United States no less, they distributed signs reading “BGLTQ Safe Space,” for the few courageous advocates of tolerance among us to display on our doors...