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Prompted by the assault of Galo Garcia III ’05 last Friday, a group of about 200 students gathered on the Science Center lawn yesterday to rally against hate crimes in a show of support organized by the Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA...
Students at the rally and throughout campus donned hot pink bandannas decorated with messages against homophobia, which the BGLTSA passed out throughout the day. Around 1,200 bandannas were distributed, and the group is ordering more to create a display against hate crimes, BGLTSA Public Relations Chair Mischa A. Feldstein ’07 said...
These are all questions that we shouldn’t have to ask. But we do. This is the second BGLTSA dance out of three this year where such an incident occurred. Even if these were the only incidents to have occurred, and even if there weren’t a problem of under-reporting of anti-BGLT hate crimes, isolated cases of bigotry are unacceptable. The assault has violated the safety of our community...
...BGLTSA will be holding a rally this Tuesday at noon, and we invite anyone concerned to come and voice his or her own experience or opinion. We will also be circulating fuchsia bandanas with an anti-hate message for people to display as they choose. We must remind everyone that an attack against one is an attack against all. As Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere...
Galo Garcia III ’05 is a chemistry concentrator affiliated with Mather House. Michael A. Feldstein ’07, a Crimson editorial editor, is a social studies concentrator in Mather House. He is Public Relations Chair of the BGLTSA...