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...SOME OF PENINSULA'S writers are decent, well-meaning folks. So it took me a very long time before I could get over the shock and anger that came with Peninsula's special double issue on homosexuality...
...rational rhetoric and wanting ever so badly to "drop all pretenses" and just call for people to get rid of us queers; only some of them fall into that extreme category--writers whose rhetoric borders dangerously close to a call for violence against gays. No, the three members of Peninsula with whom I am familiar (Matthew J. McDonald, Adam Jones and Roger Landry) struck me as devout, well-intentioned young men who see a widespread problem on our campus (homosexuality), and want to correct...
THESE WRITERS are noble, but mis-guided. I do think it's a bit condescending of my fellow students at Peninsula to tell me that my desires for women are wrong, and should be stopped through "public policy and community standards," simply because these desires do not fit into their neat, biblical conceptions of what constitutes "correct" sex; that is, heterosexual sex used only for the purposes of procreation...
...Peninsula members are secure in their heterosexuality, and understand that my being homosexual is about as reversible as the color of my eyes or my skin, then I do not understand why they are so obsessive about "curbing" acceptance of homosexuality...
...late spring and summer of 1942 would be a black time for the Soviet Union. An attempt to retake the Kerch peninsula in the Crimea failed. In May three Russian armies, the vanguard of a planned counteroffensive in Ukraine, were routed by German mechanized units in Kharkov. The Germans claimed to have captured 200,000 prisoners...