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...points, Harvard’s prevailing liberal winds have rendered a few organizations’ core goals more or less satisfied. Look to “Gaypril,” the month-long string of political and social events run by the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) for evidence of this. ROTC is banned from campus. Gay students, on the other hand, have a vast wealth of resources at their disposal—BGLTS tutors are in nearly every House, weekly support groups meet in throngs and many rooms in a good deal of dorms...
...queer” at the family dinner table only to be stared back at with doe-eyed gawks. Perhaps this is Harvard’s curious way of preparing naive bumpkins for ideological persuasion on provincial battle fronts. But it’s peculiar that while BGLTSA unflinchingly welcomes a group called the “Lesbian Avengers”—I’m not sure what they’re here to avenge—a handful of “blue states” are debating gay marriage, and the rest of the country...
...Harvard now, I expected BGLTSA’s Open Mic night to be a little more spectacular than those of my past. Before the entertainment begins, there are refreshments, including a nice cake from Finale. The expensive dessert, combined with the boxes of cool T-shirts (“BGLTSA All Stars—Come Play for Our Team!”), seem to be promising signs of the quality entertainment to come...
After welcoming everybody to Open Mic Night, and warning that the only microphone is broken, BGLTSA co-chairs Stephanie M. Skier ’05 and M.C.D. Barusch ’06 introduce the evening’s first act, a self-written song played on the guitar. The refrain is, “Let me stay one more night in your arms/Let me stayayayayayayay one more night in your arms.” Next, a guy tells a “true story” about his first time. It was with a male model in Lebanon, who went...
Many exciting BGLTSA events will follow this one—“Gaymes,” club nights, panel discussions and a sex toy party are among them. For now, though, Gaypril has begun with a cheery, supportive whisper. Despite the absence of “White Room,” this Open Mic night seems an awful lot like those of yore. Rather than being disappointed, though, let’s be encouraged. In a month that celebrates awareness and promotes acceptance, recognizing that BGLTSA students at Harvard are so similar to a bunch of preteen rock star...