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...notice something a little out of the ordinary. It may come to your attention that there are a dozen same-sex couples outside, kissing each other in the open air. Yes, today around lunchtime the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) will be staging a kiss-in action in front of the Science Center. We’ve thought long and hard about this event, we’ve discussed the plans with our membership, and now we want to clearly communicate to the larger Harvard community the reasons behind this kiss-in. So pop an Altoid...
...displays of affection—whether in the mass media queer students have been ingesting since birth or on the footpaths through Harvard Yard which we walk every day. So, taking our cue from student groups at Princeton, Wesleyan and the University of Michigan, the BGLTSA will stage a kiss-in today to claim public space for queer students and queer bodies. We hereby register our disappointment with the benevolent hypocrisy of “tolerance,” and we challenge the Harvard community to evolve beyond...
...some may sputter, “we don’t want to see straight couples making out in front of the Science Center either.” This assertion is a red herring, and misses the point of today’s action. The kiss-in theatrically draws attention to smaller, daily gestures of heterosexual public intimacy which have become so routine as to be invisible. On the National Day of Silence earlier this month, participants disrupted our everyday routine by refusing to speak, and provoking us to wonder what other silences we live among, unknowingly. The kiss...
...blithe about a queer pairing? Would you wrinkle your nose at two boys? Would you hoot and holler at two girls? Would you squint and stare at a couple whose genders you couldn’t figure out? These are the double standards which today’s kiss-in hopes to highlight. Certainly, we understand that different codes of conduct apply to behavior at a room party and behavior in front of the Science Center. But two dozen strong, with HUPD standing by, we have the collective confidence to question a boundary that we might be individually cowed into...
...Skier, the group’s outgoing treasurer, said she feels that the kiss-in is “an effective strategy to increase awareness” and that she may organize one in the future...