Word: kissing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...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...