Word: lesbian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says Joel R. Pollack '99. "Her character developed as the show developed. If I was watching TV and she happened to be on, it made my day." Pollack is quick to add, "This was in sixth grade." (He has not, therefore, seen Milano's breakthrough performance in 1994's lesbian vampire blockbuster, "The Nosferatu Diaries.") In the movies, the Brat Pack was summarily revered for bespeaking this generation's collective adolescence. "I loved Molly Ringwald," gushes an anonymous Leverett House senior, "because she always...
Judging from the tone of his column (Nov. 2), it sounds as though Hugh P. Liebert intends to sum up the decades-old debate over gay and lesbian civil rights in 1,000 words or less. But by flattening the views of gay-rights advocates into a few narrow stereotypes, he undercuts the high ground he tries so hard to attain...
Similarly, Liebert argues that gays and lesbians ought to "prove beyond a doubt that homosexual union is a viable, albeit heretofore unexplored, version of virtuous living"-- suggesting that gay families are some kind of questionable new fad, like Viagra or swing dancing. Most gay and lesbian people aren't interested in proving that their relationships are "viable"--they're too busy simply living their lives together. Civil rights and basic legal benefits should not be dependent on offering evidence of our "virtue...
...struggle for gay rights can't simply be summed up as a war between irreligious gays and lesbians and their "intellectual elite" allies on the one hand, and "starchy traditionalists" and God-fearing regular Joes on the other. Our work on behalf of the gay and lesbian community has taught us that that community is far too diverse and multi-faceted to be caricatured so broadly. NICOLE L. DEBLOSI '99 ADAM A. SOFEN...
...cannot or will not educate yourself, or if you cannot come to accept and celebrate the gay and lesbian people in your lives, at least be tolerant. People who are different from you are not hurting you; please do not hurt them. JANICE A. DEBLOSI Nov. 3, 1998 Medford, Mass...