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...members of the Bisexual Gay and Lesbian Students Association (BGISA) and as citizens of the Harvard-Radcliffe community, we feel we must respond to David B. Lat's spiteful and logically vapid column on National Coming Out Day ("Those Happy Homos," Opinion, Oct. 18, 1994). While Lat is free to write about his own opinions, he should base his opinions on facts, not on his self-righteous and incoherent political and religious views...
...asks, "But how many homosexual Harvard students are still in the closet? Two? Three?" We shudder to think how alone that question made closeted gay, lesbian and bisexuals feel. According to even the most conservative studies on the gay population the number is much closer to 200 or 300. Part of our message on Coming Out Day is to show that there are men and women proud to be gay, lesbian and bisexual, and proud...
...Moon Duchin '97, co-chair of the Bisexual Gay and Lesbian Student Association, said she sees potential benefits in appointing a member of the faculty to the post...
...most memorable profiles are those of Dot Robinson, an 82-year-old who refuses to ride anything but a girlie-pink Harley, and of Jaqui Sturgess, a Madison Avenue lesbian who rides not only to live but also in order to challenge societal constructs of femininity. The great thing about Dot (besides the lipstick holder attached to her bike's rearview mirror) is that she is completely unaware of her own place in the annals of feminist history, even though she rode a bike long before our mamas were born. "I was a woman in a man's world...
While he accuses lesbigay support groups of "pressuring the ambivalent to label themselves gay of lesbian." Lat ignores the infinitely more intense pressures on all students to conform to heterosexual norms of behaviour. Lat's suggestion that very few lesbian, gay or bisexual students remain in the closet at Harvard is contradicted by the numerous testimonies of those who find it impossible to come out until after they have graduated. Lat argues that one should be proud only of what one has personally accomplished. According to this restrictive view, I may be Chinese, but because I had no hand...