Word: homophobia
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...Undergraduate Council's Halloween meeting, council representatives in costume enacted a bill amending an anti-homophobia grant and another calling for increased accessibility for disabled students...
...council passed a bill to amend an anti-homophobia grant authorized this spring. After a gay tutor in Mather House was the target of repeated homophobic graffiti last year, the council voted to allocate $1,000 from its special fund to challenge a student group to host an anti-homophobia event...
...There is a general current of homophobia that just doesn't often come to fruition [at Harvard]," Gautreau-Tabacco said. "The homophobic Winthrop and Mather incidents exhibit that. The gay community is often isolated. It will be a long time before Harvard provides that type of resource...
Preceptor Jody Lisberger teaches about race, homophobia and class in her course on Violence and Non-Violence...
William Pollack, a psychologist who examines bullying in his book Real Boys' Voices, agrees that intimidation is too often rewarded. "Aggression, homophobia and violent behavior are looked up to in boys," he says. "Being artistic or musical is not." He cautions, however, that not all child bullies are the cool kids--some are among the most depressed students in a class and may be reacting to being bullied themselves. Pollack is also worried that the phenomenon is on the rise, partly because families spend less time together, which leaves boys fewer outlets for productive communication. "It's a national epidemic...