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...happy that the Kiss-in created a dialogue about homophobia. Yet I am frightened when the pain and fear expressed by many bisexual, lesbian and gay members of the Harvard community is greeted by defensiveness. To all members of our community, I say simply that many people among us feel so unsafe that they cannot live openly; even friends and relatives can feel forced to hide their sexual feelings. More than a few have been both verbally and physically harassed. All of us are consequently cut off from people who could enrich our lives...
...effort to provide an expanded and fair forum for the issues arising from an incident of alleged homosexual harassment at a Mather House dance and subsequent Kiss-in protest, The Crimson has decided to run a page of commentaries from members of the Mather community. We have attempted to include stories from both sides of the initial harassment incident, as well as two pieces about the broader issues brought out by the Kiss...
...come forward with their complaints. Unfortunately, anti-homosexual bigotry is not alien to university life, and it is easy to understand the frustration which groups like Defeat Homophobia feel in trying to deal with the problem. One can therefore understand how quickly Defeat Homophobia was able to organize a Kiss-in at Mather to denounce homophobia after Sunday's confrontation...
...present anti-homophobe crusade at Mather would not have happened without the catalyst of 19 February: Defeat Homophobia explicitly cited it at the Kiss-in and manipulated it to turn the subsequent Mather House meeting into a soapbox for speeches against the harassment of homosexuals. Defeat Homophobia talks out of both sides of its mouth: at Mather, the incident on that Sunday and more general concerns about homophobia are "completely unrelated" (as they should be), but for outside consumption the incident of "homophobic violence" that night is the rallying-point for community outrage. In as many days, three Crimson pieces...
...shame that the commotion and rumors surrounding the incidents of Sunday night have obscured the primary issue which prompted the Kiss-in and the demonstrations which followed. At issue is the problem of homophobia, both at Mather and at Harvard as a whole. I am not pointing fingers and calling everyone a homophobe; that would be wrong, and the problem is more farreaching than that. Plenty of people at Mather, straight people, have shown their support. The pink triangles in the courtyard windows were a very moving example of that support by straight friends. But the problem...