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AFTER an incident of alleged harassment of a homosexual, Defeat Homophobia staged a kiss-in two weeks ago during dinner in the Mather House dining hall. The incident and the kiss-in have provoked widespread debate in Mather House and throughout the Harvard community, which has in fact proved what Defeat Homophobia expected it would--that a great deal of prejudice against homosexuals exists on this campus...
Students also protested the kiss-in as offensive to those members of the community who were not ready to be confronted with such a graphic display of homosexuality. But the kiss-in in fact clearly showed the limits of most students' allegiance to the cause of tolerance for another way of life...
Many said they felt that the timing of the kiss-in was inappropriate because the details of the incidents on February 19 were unclear. Others in the meeting said they found the kiss-in offensive, saying that the dining hall was not the right place for such activities...
Five days later, a group of gay men and lesbian women interrupted dinner in the Mather dining hall. They announced that they had come to protest homophobia and explained that their action was a result of Sunday night's incident. They staged a "Kiss-in," saying that they were pushed to action by the abuse which the said Mather senior had faced the previous Sunday...
When my friend was sexually harassed, I did not conduct a public forum on sexual harassment. I went to the proper judicial channels of Harvard University. The BGLSA, prompted by the student who had harassed my friend, chose to do otherwise and held the Kiss-in. I was told by Harvard administrators before the Kiss-in not to discuss the Sunday case. The other group, however, felt free...