Word: outness
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It is difficult to know how to respond to the curious mlange of misrepresentation, inaccuracy and illogic that characterized "Foolishness on the Right" (Editorial, Dec. 7). The Crimson's thesaurus must have received quite a workout: in the space of a few paragraphs, the sponsors of last week's Conservative...
First, The Crimson attacks the name of the "Coming Out Dinner," accusing us of mocking homosexuals who reveal themselves to their friends and families. Of course conservatives recognize that many gays find it difficult to "come out." To the extent that the Coming Out Dinner is mocking, however, it is...
"Coming out," the editorial goes on to inform us, is not "part of any radical political agenda." One wonders whether The Crimson remembersthe offensive onslaught of obscene and anti-religious posters that marked this October's "National Coming Out Day" celebration at Harvard, when coming out was given an undeniably...
The Crimson editorial--along with the accompanying opinion piece by Michael Tan and Nicole Carbellano ("Debating the Meaning of 'Coming Out,'" Opinion, Dec. 7)--exemplifies the overblown rhetoric and name-calling that have replaced reasoned discussion and mutual respect in Harvard campus discourse regarding homosexuality.
Conservatives certainly do not object, as the Crimson staff asserts, to "homosexuals sharing their identity with others." Nor, as Tan and Carbellano outrageously claim, do we "question the validity of [gays'] right to exist." These sorts of groundless attacks echo the slanders of protesters at the Coming Out Dinner, whose...