Word: lesbigay
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Dates: during 1994-1994
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...scattered ruminations on National Coming Out Day ("Those 'Happy Homos,'" Opinion, Oct. 18, 1994), David B. Lat mocks and belittles the sincere attempts of the Harvard lesbigay community to gather together in order to celebrate a common identity, and to share in that celebration with friends, neighbors and colleagues...
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...
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