Word: homophobia
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...party on Harvard’s campus. Any one of the hundreds of queer and non-queer students who attended the dance could have been the victim. It is simply unfathomable how Hastrup can label this crime as an isolated occurrence that “was so unrelated to homophobia on campus.” Any hate crime on campus is absolutely relevant to the overt and subtle forms of campus discrimination that affect minority students...
...many ways liberal institutions have come a long way. However, it should not take, say, the Ku Klux Klan to rise to prominence once again on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in order for there to be a public acknowledgement that subtle and explicit racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of discrimination are widespread, and sometimes violent, realities for minorities at liberal universities...
...proliferation of terms in the queer rights movement—especially “queer” itself—is due, in part, to a reclamation of the words that proceed or accompany fear and physical violence. Moving beyond these imposed terms, we invent new words like homophobia and heterosexism because these inventions prove more accurate, useful tools in an ongoing battle for fairness and recognition, maybe not for everyone, but in strategic situations. Other groups, marginalized and otherwise, have done the same. The terms that the black civil rights movement used to identify its members in the 1960s...
...fact, the incident was so unrelated to homophobia on campus, that it makes one question whether some students saw it more as means toward publicity...
...even spurred Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II to suggest that “there’s still a lot of work to be done” with regard to campus tolerance. Yet no one offered any real ideas on how to stop drive-by homophobia on the streets of Cambridge, which most likely occurred because the University has little power in this area to begin with...