Word: lgbt
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Heteronormativity” is hardly a pressing concern when issues like hate crimes and job discrimination plague LGBT Americans more frequently and devastatingly. And yet still the BGLTSA focuses its efforts on demonizing Pinkett Smith, who spoke from her heart and personal experience in a plea for a respect for diversity. How dare...
...reactionary politics of the BGLTSA also represent a more systemic problem in LGBT politics: radical isolation. By advancing fringe agendas, which have a negligible impact on the lives of LBGT people as compared to larger more pressing problems, LGBT activists alienate even would-be supporters of their cause. The outrage and media frenzy which erupted over e-mail lists yesterday in response to this controversy is directly indicative of this aforementioned problem...
...various organizations that serve the Harvard LGBT community seem to teeter on a precipice, at risk of falling into a kind of effective irrelevancy. Valuable opportunities for socializing expand, and intellectually-interesting experimentation with radical queerness grows, yet the space at Harvard College for LGBT students and supporters to participate in non-radical political activism seems to be shrinking. We engage in petty internecine turf wars while real battles rage in the world beyond the gates, beyond the protection of a largely-liberal environment and generous non-discrimination regulations. Our rights ride...
...will not deny the difficulty of the task before those groups that serve the LGBT community here. They must juggle multiple roles that often demand different and even conflicting actions. They must attempt to create comfortable social spaces, to aid individuals coming to terms with their sexuality and to mediate spirited theoretical debates among students who feel themselves newly-empowered, intellectually, by recent course offerings in queer studies. To do all this while also attempting traditional issues-based awareness-raising and activism in the political realm is admittedly a formidable challenge...
...call-making, rally-attending sense. It’s time to dust off those classic political tools that might expand our attention, for a while, beyond in-house debates over what’s subversive, and beyond the gym, the clubs and the parties. The LGBT community, and its supporters, can’t afford to sleep...