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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...community's simultaneous exploitation of the Sunday incident and efforts to distract Mather discourse from any discussion of it raised serious questions about Defeat Homophobia's judgement, if not its true dedication to tolerance and education. In trying to raise our consciousness, it wounded and alienated a large group of Mather students, the friends of the visiting 17-year-old harassee. The tone of the debate at the ensuing Mather House meeting revealed a callous, mean-spirited side of what should be a caring, empathetic desire for tolerance and understanding in campus life. Their thoughtless handling of the situation...
...least, my friend was surprised. My friend grabbed a young woman who had accompanied the group to Harvard that evening, told the Mather senior that the woman was his girlfriend, and rejected for a second time the invitation to dance...
...more times that evening, the Mather individual approached my group of friends. My friends were by that time exasperated and, unfamiliar with this train of events, did not know what to do. What they did was engage the Mather individual in exchanges that were--on both sides--bigoted, deeply offensive and abusive. At one point, one of my friends pushed the Mather senior...
Five days later, a group of gay men and lesbian women interrupted dinner in the Mather dining hall. They announced that they had come to protest homophobia and explained that their action was a result of Sunday night's incident. They staged a "Kiss-in," saying that they were pushed to action by the abuse which the said Mather senior had faced the previous Sunday...
Needless to say, while no one at Mather defends homophobia, we were shocked by the misuse of fact that underlaid the action in the dining hall. The individual the group came to defend had sexually harassed my friend, and other instances are known when he has exhibited similarly unacceptable behavior. Unfortunately, the group's attack on homophobia could only be understood by many of us as an endorsement of that individual...