Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sometimes it seems easier to hide in the closet and live a lie instead of attempting to come out. Actually, both options are pretty awful, but then that's the dilemma of life as a gay person. And that's homophobia. And that's the problem...
...pink triangles--a traditional sign of gay rights activists--and the blue squares--"if you're feeling square and a little bit blue"--have moved the Mather House debate about its acceptance of the gay community into the symbolic realm...
First, there was the "kiss-in," staged by members of Defeat Homophobia in the Mather dining hall last Friday. That protest, the outgrowth of an alleged harassment of a gay student the Sunday before, resulted in a Saturday house meeting during which students argued over the appropriateness of the dining hall kiss...
...central--and very different--issues are at stake in the current Mather House debate. First, many residents have taken sides about an alleged incident of harassment in Mather two weeks ago, in which a gay student claims he was verbally and physically assaulted by non-Harvard students but other witnesses say the harassment went both ways...
...other issue is the kiss-in, and the type of protest used by gay and lesbian students to expose what they say is homophobic sentiment...