Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since my being gay isn't for me merely an aspect of my behavior but rather my love, I still perceive my identity as being disdained. It would be similar if a Black person were told that although blackness is distasteful or immoral, he or she is "o.k." For members of both a racial and sexual minority, prejudice is compounded...
...disapproval helps keep some bisexual, lesbian, and gay people afraid to live openly; the stress of maintaining a lie can cause depression and even suicide...
...short, gay and lesbian and bisexual people are hurting simply because they feel love. I must therefore seek and hope for greater acceptance...
...Cice '89-90 is co-chair of the Bisexual & Gay & Lesbian Student Association...
Greatly assisted by three grossly misleading Crimson articles, which treated the incident as a straightforward occurrence of homophobic violence and implied that Mather House was thus divided only between enlightened citizens and petty bigots, Defeat Homophobia was able to turn a bizarre and unresolved charge of gay-on-straight harassment into a moral crusade, its alleged perpetrator into a martyr and the Mather debate into a purge of alleged homophobes: anyone who felt the incident to be an inappropriate cause celebre for even the most worthy cause...