Word: homophobia
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Monday afternoon, the Student Affairs Committee of the Undergraduate Council had just one definite application for its $1,000 anti-homophobia grant. By the 5 p.m. deadline that evening, the number had increased to five...
When the Undergraduate Council voted last spring to allocate $1,000 to combat homophobia on campus, members expected a competitive bidding process...
...naught so queer as folk"--there's nothing as strange as people.) Davies took heat from conservatives and from gays, who called it defamatory and unrealistic. "It's realistic for men who live like that," he argues. "It's not realistic for everyone." Cowen calls such criticism "internalized homophobia...
...council's intention of fighting on-campus homophobia was laudable, but the bill itself was plagued with problems. First, it failed to allocate any money for publicity, a move that proved to be fatal. More fundamentally, the bill trivialized the very problem it aimed to eradicate. By presenting homophobia as a "challenge" that could be sufficiently addressed with a single project or event, the council overlooked the systemic nature of homophobia on campus. It diverted attention away from seeking long-term solutions that would have a more significant impact than some one-time event...
...bill's failure to elicit a strong response shouldn't prevent the council from redirecting its efforts toward attacking on-campus homophobia. By increasing dialogue between students, faculty and the administration, by organizing and funding panel discussions, by lobbying to improve advising for gay students and by working to ensure a campus free of hate crimes, the council can do much more to eliminate homophobia than any single event would have done...