Word: mathering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pink triangles--a traditional sign of gay rights activists--and the blue squares--"if you're feeling square and a little bit blue"--have moved the Mather House debate about its acceptance of the gay community into the symbolic realm...
First, there was the "kiss-in," staged by members of Defeat Homophobia in the Mather dining hall last Friday. That protest, the outgrowth of an alleged harassment of a gay student the Sunday before, resulted in a Saturday house meeting during which students argued over the appropriateness of the dining hall kiss...
...central--and very different--issues are at stake in the current Mather House debate. First, many residents have taken sides about an alleged incident of harassment in Mather two weeks ago, in which a gay student claims he was verbally and physically assaulted by non-Harvard students but other witnesses say the harassment went both ways...
...Mather resident who hosted the alleged attackers says that his friends were actually harassed by the gay student. "There is guilt on both sides," said the host, Brian J. Buckley '90. "I feel that my friend was harassed...
...kiss-in brings out a lot of latent bigotry, then at least it's something we can deal with," said Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students co-chair Kelly M. Dermody '89-'90 before the protest in Mather House dining hall last Friday...