Word: queered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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National Coming Out Day is intended to counter the risk and pain that accompanies revealing sexual preference. It is a day for these students to share their identity in a safe environment and to take pride in being queer. The "conservative coming out dinner" held at Hillel (News, Feb. 25) represents a mocking appropriation of this experience...
Throughout the article, both the writer and the conservative students interviewed used phrases and metaphors commonly associated with being queer, while never admitting the connection. Anne L. Berry '00 asserted the dinner was not "a statement about other groups commonly associated with coming out events." What "other groups" might those be? Coming out has become equated with the experience of homosexuality or transgenderism, but Berry refuses to come out and say it. It is impossible to divide such a metaphor from its common usage; to use the term coming out so irresponsibly is to do harm to the youth...
...leader in the field of queer theory, Pellegrini has been largely responsible for Harvard's academic expansion into the field of gay and lesbian studies since she arrived on campus in the fall...
...attended one of the first orientationsessions for queer students for MIT," Harmon said...
Wilson noted that, after his arrival, the masters instituted a queer tea--which would have been unthinkable in previous years...