Word: homophobia
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...Vatican announced late last year its plans to release a document on the advisability of admitting gays into the Catholic priesthood. At Harvard in December, the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgendered and Supporters Alliance’s anti-homophobia efforts reminded the community to scrutinize its own attitudes of acceptance of sexual minorities. Many American Catholics have chosen this past year, in which abuse revelations and anti-gay sentiment have injured Catholic communities around the country, to examine the Church’s teachings on sexuality and sin and to envision how these teachings may apply to a culture from which...
...allies, humiliated him and was brutally exploited by, among others, Strom Thurmond. So, like many public gay men, Rustin was forced into a defensive crouch because of his sex life. Having struggled for his dignity as an African American, he was still subject to the dehumanization implicit in homophobia...
...their own refusal to engage the substance of Pappin’s argument. At a Dec. 11 meeting in response to the letter, they suggested that the letter was a sign of escalating “homophobia” at Harvard. To further draw attention to the problem of homophobia, on one of the most accepting and inclusive campuses in the United States no less, they distributed signs reading “BGLTQ Safe Space,” for the few courageous advocates of tolerance among us to display on our doors...
...other songs, Common addresses deeply personal issues ranging from insecurity and death to his own rumored homophobia. Though albums about artists’ vulnerability often risk sounding trite, Electric Circus never delivers the easy answers to fundamental questions. In “Right Ta” Common asks, “Hip-hop is changin’/Y’all want me to stay the same?” With this album, Common shows that he has already changed since 2000’s Like Water for Chocolate, and will likely continue to break boundaries...
Prescod-Weinstein expressed her own experiences with homophobia, calling on the University to publicly affirm its support for sexual minority students...