Word: homophobia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will not deny that things may still be very different for black gay males than for white gay males. But the source of this different existence is racism not homophobia. We must, as a society, attack racism as racism and not allow ourselves to confuse our battles. BGLTSA exists to attack homophobia and heterosexism, not to attack racism...
Like many religious groups, we are concerned by the perversion of faith and the manipulation of religion for adverse purposes. We are interested in working with campus religious groups to answer religious intolerance of every kind, from the theocratic rants of the Peninsula to the ill-disguised homophobia of the Harvard Law School Society for "Life, Law, and Religion...
...Harvard especially, we know the value of the ivy closet. Many of us are conservative politically. Many of us believe that getting ahead is most important. A Harvard student may choose not to write a term paper with a queer theme to accommodate a professor's homophobia. A Harvard student may choose tactfully omit a pronoun to avoid revealing the gender of a lover. A Harvard queer knows when and how to pass as straight--we know what to say, how to smile and how to dress. We can slip in and out from subculture to mainstream and back again...
...have resorted to the closet. I sacrificed my radical 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...
...Hope you like not-so-thinly veiled homophobia. The Jackal "penetrates" government security by seducing a gay civil servant. When he finally disposes of the poor man, the director makes the whole thing look like a big joke. Ha, ha, the gay man got shot! If you don't find this funny, you probably won't enjoy The Jackal...