Word: hq
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...editor and founder of HQ, Harvard's only magazine dedicated to bisexual, gay and lesbian issues, I must respond to an article written in the February 15 issue of the Harvard Salient which criticizes the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations for its funding of HQ and The Rag, a radical feminist publication which, to be sure, has the right to speak for itself...
Throughout, HQ and The Rag are lumped together as similar publications, when in fact, as most would concur, they have different styles, different methods and different objectives. The Rag has a political agenda which revolves along the axis of radical feminism, whereas HQ, though necessarily forced to make political statements on behalf of bi/gay/lesbian peoples, attempts simply to provide a voice for the members of our diverse community. This voice is vital, heterogeneous and too often silenced or ignored by homophobia...
Obviously, I was inclined to disagree with these elaborately exhausting, although ultimately trivial, criticisms of HQ, criticisms against which I'm certain the magazine can defend itself. But if the author is that intent, I'm sure he and I can find a more appropriate forum (and topic) in which to discuss the quality of that "verbally incontinent" publication for which I write. At present, I write to affirm HQ's committment to and investment in both racial equality and multiculturalism...
This represents just a smattering of the issues grappled with between the covers of HQ, issues denigrated by the Salient as "fetid excreta." Needless to say, I question the Salient's committment to racial equality when it writes off these complex and often charged subjects as "sub-amateurish." It is also important to note than the Salient article irresponsibly (and admittedly so) selects an uncharacteristic quotation to gloss judgment over the entire magazine (and dangerously close to the entire bi/gay/lesbian community), a tactic which strikes me as more "sub-amateurish" than anything printed in HQ...
...most important, The Salient wrong-headedly overlooks the crucial argument that HQ is one of the few, if not the only, voices on campus for bi/gay/lesbian people of color to express themselves, as they are often silenced by homophobia within their particular ethnic or religions group...