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...terror and suffering, but he defined it. He-a stranger, an intruder-gave her a perverse immortality of a kind she never sought, never expected, never consented to. She surely thought that in her 28 years she had been building a life of joys and loves, struggle and achievement, friendship and fellowship. That and everything else she built her life into were simply swallowed up by the notoriety of her death, a notoriety unchosen and unbidden...
Being called a fag hag—even when it is primarily by my gay friends—seems to imply that when searching for the next victim of my friendship, I sniff out gays. Yet I’m not an insect drawn to the homosexual flame. Women with gay friends often get lumped together as some strange breed, but the phenomenon is actually quite simple. Just like meeting politicos though a roommate in the College Democrats, having one friend in the Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) will get you in with...
...this image because it assumes that I specifically seek out gay male companions. And it is another way in which we judge people not as individuals, but by one aspect—the sexuality of the company they keep—that could be wholly irrelevant to the actual friendship. My gay friends are just that: friends who also happen to be gay, and not the objects of some sort of platonic gay fetish...
ALLISON HOWARD West Friendship...
...Sudanese issue got on the map when evangelical students, the lost boys, and legislators teamed up to put it on the map.” Students said they were inspired after hearing Eggers and Valentino speak. “That Valentino had such a commitment to being open, to friendship, that he reacted to disaster in that way, that was instructive,” said Chris J. Dowdy, a student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. “It was so compelling.” Audience members who had packed the pews of Memorial Church stood...