Word: lesbian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last Friday, in a demonstration partially inspired by an alleged assault upon a gay Mather resident, Defeat Homophobia, a campus gay, lesbian and bisexual rights organization, staged a "kiss-in" in the Mather dining hall to "protest violence with love...
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...
...Mather House Master Jeffrey G. Williamson called a meeting to discuss the issue of tolerance and sexual orientation; it was heated, but it was an important first step. On Tuesday, four Mather residents distributed more than 100 pink triangle signs to fellow residents to demonstrate solidarity with the gay, lesbian and bisexual community. They did so following the appearance of a message on a dining hall blackboard reading, "Harvard faggots...
...Without them, can a Courbet retrospective make full sense? Emphatically yes. The character of Courbet the painter is richly distributed through his work, not just in its most famous images; in any case, the curators have secured other magisterial works from French museums, such as his great image of lesbian love, Sleep, 1866, and The Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine (Summer...
This predisposition made him a great painter of the nude, though undoubtedly a phallocratic one. One sees him at full stretch in Sleep, the painting of two life-size lesbians entwined on a bed. It proves the impossibility of distinguishing, at a certain level, between pornography and art. The painting has little to do with lesbian perceptions of sex: it is a seraglio scene, an enactment for men's eyes only. But despite the corniness of the flowers and pearls that allegorize Luxury, the creamy rose of those bodies, shadowed with olive and held within the complicated machinery...