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...Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) awarded its first-ever BGLTS Person of the Year Award yesterday evening to Colonel Margrethe Cammermeyer (Ret.), a 31-year veteran of the National Guard...
...BGLTSA, however, “raising visibility” plays a particularly important role in our mission. We live in a world (and on a campus) where it is taken for granted that everyone is straight save a few well-marked exceptions who are rarely ever worth mentioning. But the more people assume, the more arched eyebrows at same-sex couples walking down the street, the more stares at students whose genders are difficult to distinguish, the more gossip about people coming out of the closet, the more discomfort about mentioning one’s queer gender or sexuality...
...even our Drag Night serve to remind us that queer people exist and are worth mentioning. Often it is our most controversial events that do the best to raise our visibility. After e-mail debates about our BDSM Panel or our Sex Toy Party, some people will think the BGLTSA is too “radical,” some people will think that we’re doing good work, but everyone is less likely to take for granted that all the people on their e-mail lists, in their classes, in their houses or in their suites share...
...course, the fact that events like the BDSM Panel or Queer Sex 101 are considered radical is just one more reason why we believe it’s so important to offer them. The goal of the BGLTSA isn’t merely to change our definition of “normal” to include a few new Will-&-Grace-esque, white male sexual identities. We think everyone, regardless of sexual or gender identity, should be respected and treated like an individual, and this will never happen unless we challenge conventional standards of sexuality and gender. Safe, consensual sexual...
Michael A. Feldstein ’07, a Crimson editorial editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Mather House. He is the public relations chair of the BGLTSA...