Word: homophobia
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...light of the recent debate about ROTC presence on campus, we feel that it is important to examine homophobia and the role it plays in the military. Harvard has an explicit policy protecting the rights of gay students. The U.S. military and ROTC are in conflict with this policy because they do not allow gays, lesbians or bisexuals to join the services, claiming that we are more susceptible to blackmail and therefore pose a more serious risk to "national security" than do heterosexuals. Two recent studies commissioned by the Department of Defense (D O D) have shown that the claim...
...homophobia is. Webster's 1980 "newly revised" dictionary does not have an entry for the word, so we point to Audre Lourde's definition: "A terror surrounding feelings of love for members of the same sex and thereby a hatred of those feelings in others." As you might expect, the gay community is painfully aware of homophobia when we experience it in discriminatory policies, in rejection by family and friends, in societal assumptions that we are straight, in our exclusion from mainstream culture, in censorship and misrepresentation of our culture, as well as in incidences of anti-gay epithets...
...lesbians or bisexuals. Members of a sexual minority who are out of the closet and proud would not pose a security risk, but we are still barred from serving our country if we feel a duty to do this through the military. This is because the military plays on homophobia and pejorative stereotypes of gays in its dehumanizing process. The terror of being perceived as homosexual is used to scapegoat weaker members of a unit and to build esprit de corps in the rest. A scapegoat is necessary to militarism; the scapegoat is blamed for a bad situation and then...
Kelly Dermody '89-'90, former BGLSA co-chair, and Clarissa C. Kripke '89, a founder of the gay rights organization Defeat Homophobia, will also speak at the event, organizers said...
...want people to know that homophobia isunacceptable and inhuman anywhere," Barrios said."We bisexual, gay and lesbian students of Harvardare asking to be treated as equals, as other humanbeings...