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Sprawling cat-like on top of a podium in Emerson Hall last night, performance artist Holly Hughes described for more than 200 people how she fled the working-class Michigan town of her youth, "a world of E-Z Care Fabric and Hamburger Helper" and became a "separatist lesbian."
Hughes' performance, the kick-off event to Queer Harvard Month, came one day after she and three other artists defended their claim before the Supreme Court that Congress should not be able to deny funding to art that affronts "general standards of decency."
"It's just a tremendous accomplishment," junior Ken Hughes said. "It's the type of individual success you wouldn't expect to see at a school that won't offer the athletic scholarships that some of the big schools do.
Hughes cited a Dartmouth shotputter who won his event at the NCAAs last year.
"That kind of talent just doesn't show up at an Ivy League school that often," Hughes said.