Word: homophobia
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...similarity ends at appearances. I don't intend to tar the entire Duke student body with one brush, as my criticism is directed at a specific group of Duke institutions and students. But in four days at Duke I witnessed more incidents of overt racism, sexism and homophobia than in two years at Harvard...
...getting--and if the gay student involved had been a woman rather than a man, I doubt further that anyone would have said anything at all. The reaction to the approaches of the gay student were thus contingent on both students being male. And this reaction is what Defeat Homophobia and the BGLSA are taking about. The issue with this reaction is homophobia...
...disciplinary action may be pending. The resolution as it was originally proposed was not meant to endorse either of the involved parties's versions of the complicated incident at Mather. The resolution in fact tried to move away from any single incident and to deal with indisputable fact that homophobia is a problem on campus...
...involvement in promoting campus-wide dialogue about issues of sexual orientation stems from homophobic reactions to Defeat Homophobia's Kiss-In--reactions which I heard expressed at an open forum provided by the Mather House masters and reactions such as "Harvard Faggots Die" written on a blackboard in Mather late at night. I became even more interested when many students at Mather began to display pink triangles in their windows to show support for the bisexual, gay and lesbian community, and I hoped to use the energy of the discussion at Mather as momentum to create a campus-wide dialogue...
Although one amendment to the resolution was approved, the council overwhelmingly rejected two other amendments which would have required the masters and senior advisors to discuss jointly the very different issues of sexual harassment and of homophobia...