Word: lesbian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said he thinks that a grassroots effort by house masters and house committees to encourage discussion of attitudes toward gay, lesbian and bisexual issues would be more effective than a College-wide program on homophobia...
...article, "Council Will Ask Houses to Discuss Homophobia" (March 6). While the resolution I sponsored does in fact call on the masters of the houses and the freshmen senior advisors to "engage students and tutors in an open discussion of issues of sexual orientation, including attitudes toward gay and lesbian students," it does not and was never intended to involve the entire campus in a discussion of "the alleged harassment of a gay Mather House resident last month," as the article asserts...
...forum provided by the Mather House masters and reactions such as "Harvard Faggots Die" written on a blackboard in Mather late at night. I became even more interested when many students at Mather began to display pink triangles in their windows to show support for the bisexual, gay and lesbian community, and I hoped to use the energy of the discussion at Mather as momentum to create a campus-wide dialogue on the rights of bisexual, gay and lesbian students...
...response of many people on campus has been that the gay, lesbian and bisexual community should stop causing trouble and let everyone return to the `peaceful co-existence' that the entire Harvard community shared before this series of incidents. But the lesson of the past few weeks should be that that peace was only a comfortable illusion for those students who feel little connection to or sympathy for the gay community...
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...