Word: homophobia
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...resolution, to be reviewed by the council's services committee today, is just one facet of a major drive by Defeat Homophobia, a new undergraduate organization set up under the auspices of the Gay Lesbian Students Association (GLSA) to advocate political rights for gays on campus...
...council resolution would acknowledge "that there is a problem [of homophobia] and that Harvard does not address it," said a sophomore member of Defeat Homophobia who asked not to be identified. Group members said it was important that the council pass the resolution since it is the representative body for undergraduates and recommended that the council pressure the University to follow up on issues raised by the document...
Racial insensitivity is an ugly, poisonous attitude, and The Dartmouth Review is, unfortunately, content to showcase it. Uwe Brandes, a senior at Dartmouth who attended a large rally against the Review, says, "The Dartmouth Review is the most vociferous voice of racism, sexism, and homophobia on campus. They are on a steady course of antagonizing the college," and would "destroy any perceived progress in racial relations since blacks were first admitted...
Activists said the president exhibited homophobia in a letter he sent to alumni to assure them that there was not a preponderant number of homosexuals at Yale, said Louise Sloan, a Brown University senior who attended the conference...
...think [the AIDS scare] has increased homophobia that people have because the majority of students see it as a gay disease," Orcutt says...