Word: bgltsa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the past month is has been difficult to overlook the Bisexual, gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA...
Social or political? Conservative or progressive? Raised publicly in February's BGLTSA election, these issues face outgoing and incoming BGLTSA officers as they seek to define an organizational agenda and settle an issue of identity confronting gay groups nationwide...
...political nature of the BGLTSA surfaced in February when David A. Campbell '00, the organization's former vice chair, was impeached by the BGLTSA executive board and the results of the elections that Campbell was responsible for organizing nullified...
...Campbell's goal] and the goals of the BGLTSA were just so different that it really was not appropriate for him to be on the board, and eight other people recognized that," said Lauralee Summer '98, the outgoing BGLTSA co-chair, at the time of Campbell's impeachment...
Finally, it is interesting to note Oppenheim's selective blindness in the observance of BGLTSA posters. While the phrase "oppressive paradigm" may remain for him an amusing snippet of lit-crit jargon, the pervasiveness of outspoken heterosexuality on this campus cannot be denied. Has Oppenheim never seen a heterosexually risqué poster for a Harvard dance, a cappella concert or theatrical production? While innocuous enough, the prevelance (and thus the privileging) of heterosexual behavior and the attendant invisibility of homosexuality legitimizes a climate of homophobia. If, on the other hand, Oppenheim is offended solely by the word "vulva...