Word: homophobia
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...can’t believe that homophobia sells,” Barusch wrote...
Most people who know me well at Harvard assume I was out in high school. But instead of standing behind a table of rainbow ribbons last year on National Coming Out Day, I was hiding in a closet. My high school was and is ripe with homophobia. “That’s so gay” and “you’re such a fag” were commonplace pejoratives in the dorms and on the sports fields. It was not until the very end of my senior year that I de facto came...
Since the release of their previous album, Hello, Nasty, in 1998, the Beastie Boys have accumulated an aura of seriousness that is almost wholly undeserved. It's true that they issued a long-overdue apology for the homophobia of their historically dumb first record, 1986's Licensed to Ill, and continued to champion the cause of Tibetan freedom. But in much the same way that Condoleezza Rice's oft repeated desire to be commissioner of the NFL hardly makes her a jock, the Beasties' hopes for a free Tibet don't make them statesmen. The Tibet thing was just...
...Harvard, the secret dealings of the Court that tried to root them out and how three of the gay students ended up committing suicide. The article prompted an apology from University President Lawrence H. Summers to the men and their families; led to a campus-wide discussion about homophobia; and was even cited in Lawrence v. Texas, the historic Supreme Court case that struck down anti-sodomy laws...
Third, ‘transphobia’ is not a term invented by Stephanie Skier or the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgendered and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA), just as homophobia is not. Additionally, while some of the language in BGLTSA statements could perhaps be viewed as ‘inflammatory,’ this is often quite necessary; the loudest voices get the most attention, and if we all sat around politely mentioning that perhaps the University might like to, well, uh, maybe consider possibly changing some positions and policies, nothing would ever be accomplished based on student input. While...