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...guess it is a bit of a childhood dream, to talk about sports on the air," Garoon says. "It sure beats talking about them in your head or mumbling under your breath during a game. And without a doubt, it's more fun to do this yourself than to listen to it on the radio...
When Joshua P. Garoon '98 was young, his favorite baseball team, the Texas Rangers, would often play late into the night (well past his bedtime). His parents would send him to bed, but they'd always let him listen to the end of the game on the radio as he fell asleep. Growing up, Garoon began to idolize the radio commentators who talked him to sleep on so many nights. Still, he never imagined that one day he'd get to be one himself...
...past two years, Garoon has been director of the sports department at WHRB, Harvard's student radio station. He does play-by-play broadcasts for Harvard football games, conducts interviews with Harvard hockey players, and oversees a staff of 10 to 15 WHRB sportscasters. Although he claims to have started commentating by chance, Garoon admits that he's quite pleased with...
Attitudes such as Garoon's endorsement of employment discrimination against people like myself pervade contemporary culture. As gay men and lesbians, we have internalized the political climate. We have learned how to closet ourselves. How many queers come out to their alumni interviewer or proclaim their sexual identity when recruited for varsity athletics...
...politics for ambition. In a scholarship interview last year, the interviewer asked if I had a boyfriend, and I said, "Yes." I lied. I feared losing the interviewer's support. As lesbians and gay men, we have internalized the homophobia of this society. Had my interviewer been Schaefer or Garoon, I might not have gotten the scholarship. And I didn't want to risk it. That $3,000 was more important to me. Perhaps it was an issue of class. Since I am a student financing her own education, the money seemed more important to me in the long...