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...heterosexual to "change"; I will accept them and try to understand them as they are, and this is how I want them to treat me. I want them to change their attitudes toward my community. Neither homosexuality nor heterosexuality is better than the other. Why can't Peninsula channel their good intentions to the real problems on campus: ignorance and intolerance of minorities...
...feel particularly sad when I think of Peninsula's writers because not too long ago, I thought and felt very much like them. I grew up in a small, narrow-minded, homophobic town, and I was all three when I got to Harvard. (Narrow-mindedness and homophobia are pretty much past me, but I'm still hoping to grow taller...
...WOULD ASK members of Peninsula to do even more reading and research, and to come to a few BGLSA events with an open mind to understanding what it is like to be gay in a homophobic world. I don't want "special" rights; I want civil rights...
...even get married in most states). I want to enjoy the freedom to walk down the street holding hands with my girlfriend. I am not a "deviate" or a "pervert"; I want to be treated with respect and understanding of my difference, not as some schoolgirl who needs Peninsula's help to understand my moral failings...
...Peninsula's efforts may be well-intentioned, but they are based upon false assumptions about homosexuality. When an angry and scared homophobe uses Peninsula faulty reasoning to justify beating up me or one of my gay friends, I want Peninsula to know they are partially responsible, that they're going to have blood on their hands for spreading lies...