Word: mathering
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AFTER an incident of alleged harassment of a homosexual, Defeat Homophobia staged a kiss-in two weeks ago during dinner in the Mather House dining hall. The incident and the kiss-in have provoked widespread debate in Mather House and throughout the Harvard community, which has in fact proved what Defeat Homophobia expected it would--that a great deal of prejudice against homosexuals exists on this campus...
...incident at the Mather dance on February 19 is only part of the issue. Whether a gay student was pushing too hard for another man to dance with him or whether the other men involved were oversensitive and ended up harassing the gay student, the reaction to the incident shows how much underlying tension exists about homosexuality on campus...
Five days later, a group of gay men and lesbian women interrupted dinner in the Mather dining hall. They announced that they had come to protest homophobia and explained that their action was a result of Sunday night's incident. They staged a "Kiss-in," saying that they were pushed to action by the abuse which the said Mather senior had faced the previous Sunday...
Needless to say, while no one at Mather defends homophobia, we were shocked by the misuse of fact that underlaid the action in the dining hall. The individual the group came to defend had sexually harassed my friend, and other instances are known when he has exhibited similarly unacceptable behavior. Unfortunately, the group's attack on homophobia could only be understood by many of us as an endorsement of that individual...
...Crimson articles and the House meeting on Saturday focused on homophobia--not because it was the intrinsically more important issue, but because concern for the privacy of this Mather senior led me and many others in the House to avoid direct reference to the case in public forums. This silence should not be construed in any way as acquiescence to the peculiar deception which has been perpetrated on the Harvard community. And I can no longer maintain that silence...