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...accompany openly discussing conservative political beliefs. Queer youth are thrown out by their parents; they are often forced to live in isolation from families that want no contact with them; and they are at risk of the kind of violence that ended the lives of Matthew Shepard and Rita Hester. "Coming out" as a conservative holds no such risks, and last Thursday's event appropriates that pain without taking responsibility for it. NICOLE L. DEBLOST '99 March 2, 1999 The author is the co-chair of the BGLTSA...
...even a borderline-cool Kappa Alpha Theta. A shy freshman at Dartmouth College, I had been rejected by those vaunted sisterhoods in the first round of pledge-season cuts. Was it my clothes? Did I say something wrong? Now that I had officially been deemed an outcast like Hester Prynne, I sulked in my dorm room for days, convinced my social life was over before it had even begun...
...read "Students Protest Transgender Deaths" (Dec. 11) with a growing sense of confusion. The concept of a "hate crime" is one which I have had problems with for some time. The death of Rita (William) Hester is without question a tragedy. However, I fail to see why Hester's gender should make her (his) death any more or less tragic. Murder is already illegal, and stigmatized by society about as much as possible. Creating a sliding scale based on motive for the severity of society's punishment for murders-or indeed for any crime-will not reduce the incidence...
Both DeBlosi and Baldwin said that some people have used Hester's occupation to justify her murder...
BGLTSA is tabling outside the Science Center today to raise awareness of Hester's murder...