Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meeting called by the house masters last Saturday, Mather residents cared enough to share very personal feelings. I admire my fellow Mather residents for their openness. That kind of meeting--unprecedented at Harvard--constitutes a successful first step at learning from each other. I am also touched by the Mather residents who, before connected to BGLSA or Defeat Homophobia, took it upon themselves to make and display pink triangles in an effort to make bisexual, lesbian, and gay people feel welcome...
...said at the Kiss-in that the incident which precipitated the Kiss-in "sprang from misunderstanding." I'm deeply dismayed that the Kiss-in seemed to some an endorsement of one version of the incident. Some Mather residents feel accused of bigotry because conflicting versions of the incident exist. A person is not bigoted for thinking that harassment may have occurred in both directions...
...happy that the Kiss-in created a dialogue about homophobia. Yet I am frightened when the pain and fear expressed by many bisexual, lesbian and gay members of the Harvard community is greeted by defensiveness. To all members of our community, I say simply that many people among us feel so unsafe that they cannot live openly; even friends and relatives can feel forced to hide their sexual feelings. More than a few have been both verbally and physically harassed. All of us are consequently cut off from people who could enrich our lives...
...bigot. However, there are actually many Catholic groups, such as Dignity USA, that advocate on behalf of bisexual, lesbian and gay people; here, the United Ministries and the Catholic Student Center welcome lesbian, gay and bisexual people. Roman Catholic myself, I have come to understand that what I feel is simply unavoidable love. I decided that, in this violent world, there's not so much love that I can reject it just because it happens to go in a particular direction...
...short, gay and lesbian and bisexual people are hurting simply because they feel love. I must therefore seek and hope for greater acceptance...