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...want to try--as BGLSA Co-Chair and Kiss-in participant--to clarify some things about the Mather Kiss-in and the discourse it has triggered. First, Mather is a tender and accepting house overall, a house bold enough to consider difficult issues...
...Kiss-in itself was intended to be self-affirmative in nature. Through the Kiss-in, we sought to assert our own good feelings for each other in public and express our sadness that homophobia exists at Harvard. We said that "Bigoted harassments against any group are unacceptable and will not be tolerated." We were asking everyone to join us in protesting a series of homophobic harassments and condemning bigoted reactions to any conflict...
...said at the Kiss-in that the incident which precipitated the Kiss-in "sprang from misunderstanding." I'm deeply dismayed that the Kiss-in seemed to some an endorsement of one version of the incident. Some Mather residents feel accused of bigotry because conflicting versions of the incident exist. A person is not bigoted for thinking that harassment may have occurred in both directions...
...Letter from Birmingham Jail," Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. responded to fellow Blacks who opposed his tactics of nonviolent resistance for reasons similar to those voiced by students offended by the kiss...
King was right. The kiss-in has already changed the nature of the debate over lesbian and gay rights. By debunking the myth of tolerance, Defeat Homophobia has created a new dialogue which attempts to define more accurately what tolerance means...