Word: pinked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subsequent effort to persuade house residents to put large pink triangles in their windows as gestures of solidarity with harassed homosexuals on campus seemed, in context--to many Mather students--highly inappropriate under the circumstances. The tactics used to push pink triangles on reluctant students were as open and empathetic as the Mather House meeting a few days before: if you felt uncomfortable displaying a large pink triangle, you were aiding and abetting the brainless homophobic thugs of the world. Silence, after all, equals death. Is it surprising that Mather has lived up to the dark prophesies that...
...issue is the problem of homophobia, both at Mather and at Harvard as a whole. I am not pointing fingers and calling everyone a homophobe; that would be wrong, and the problem is more farreaching than that. Plenty of people at Mather, straight people, have shown their support. The pink triangles in the courtyard windows were a very moving example of that support by straight friends. But the problem is one of a pervading atmosphere at the University, which can only be changed by a general consciousness-raising...
...outward manifestations of the debate are easily sighted: witness the pink triangles and blue squares posted in students' windows all around the Mather House courtyard...
...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...
Since then, the pink triangles and blue squares have appeared. And the conversations have continued--in the dining hall, in rooming groups, in the elevators and hallways...