Word: color
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would like to thank The Crimson for publishing the article entitled "Gay Students of Color Form New Group" on Oct. 24, in which you informed your readers about the formation of Spectrum. It's great that the editors of The Crimson realize that this is important news...
...headline "Gay Students of Color Form New Group" (as well as numerous references to the label "gay" in the article) was wrong because I helped form Spectrum and I am not gay. What am I, if not gay? I can't tell you precisely--not because I don't want to, but because I can't. I'm certainly not straight, and the label I prefer to use is "queer...
...asked me if I was gay, so why did she assume I was? Did she think we were really just all gay and that our decision to use the word "queer" was just a politically correct gesture? She wrote that Spectrum was "promoted" as a group for queers of color, as if that's just the way it was "promoted," while in reality it is something else. Spectrum is a group for queers of color, and that is a fact that doesn't need to be placed in quotes...
...analogy, and only as an analogy, let's pretend the headline stated "Gay Black Students Form New Group." This would inspire more than just a debate over what labels ought to be used for minority students in newspapers. It would be wrong. Obviously, "students of color" is the correct term, since not all the students were black...
...very least, The Crimson headline should have stated "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Students of Color Form New Group." I realize that in the interests of space, The Crimson editors cannot try to list every form of queer identity that exists. Even the above example doesn't do that. However, this is exactly my point. We defy category, we defy attempts to be labeled and boxed...