Word: homophobia
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...It’s sad that homophobia can still occur in the Harvard community,” he said. “It’s especially sad that it happened on pre-frosh weekend...
...fired from an editing job with McDermott International Inc. after writing an article for PEOPLE magazine about his own suspected case of AIDS. "They just walked in and said, 'Get the hell out,' " he recalls. "I hope they were acting out of panic or confusion, not belligerence or homophobia...
...most of them, even that large conservative percentage that never enjoyed fast-track, promiscuous sex, it is the overriding issue of their lives. They are in the middle of a war, fighting not only the disease but also their fear of it and what they perceive as a growing homophobia in the rest of the country...
This is not to say that not everything abroad is peachy keen: xenophobia, racism, and homophobia were far more prevalent in my Irish town, welcoming its first wave of immigrants, than at Harvard. Elsewhere, my friends saw poverty and repression. Our eyes were opened to evils beyond the ones we knew. One can’t see these things and remain unaffected...
...homophobia, heterosexism, and transphobia are still very much a fact of life here. Many queer students are still expected to explain or defend their identities and decisions, there are queer students who continue to find Harvard an inhospitable place to come out, people’s sexual and gender identities still serve as a basis for prejudice, and anti-queer acts of violence occur. Moreover, some social circles are considerably less accepting than others. Despite all of the progress Harvard has made, we can still make the University a better place for queer students, faculty, and staff...