Word: kissing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...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...
Presumably, the purpose of the kiss-in was to elicit a response that would demonstrate the depth or shallowness of support for gay rights at Harvard. The Defeat Homophobia effort has been widely successful in challenging the assumptions of those who considered themselves to be tolerant of homosexuality, but were unwilling to pay the cause anything more than lip service...
ALTHOUGH it would have been commendable if no one had been offended by the kiss-in, such a reaction was unlikely. Because complete tolerance does not exist at Harvard, the kiss-in should have bothered people, and I'm glad...
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...