Word: queered
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...suggest that the imagined plight of conservatives is in any way comparable to the oppressively real struggles of queer communities is an act, at best, of shameful disingenuousness. At worst, it is a frank assault. Implicit in this false parallel is the fantasy of a queer conspiracy putting the increasingly fragile American family, character and more under siege. For example, a recent staff editorial in The Salient accused the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance of domesticating the Undergraduate Council into a queer lapdog and making Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 into a mere bedfellow...
...course, that equal footing is itself a fiction. One cannot draw an equivalence between the condemnation of queer lives (for whatever reason) and disagreements on ideological grounds. It is not persecution to have someone challenge your views. It is persecution when your very right to exist is constantly being called into question. We cannot begin any equitable dialogue until those on the other side of the table acknowledge the insidious reality of homophobia and accept that there are no valid grounds, religious, personal or "moral," to question the validity of our existence. To suggest otherwise is to come...
...Michael K. T. Tan '01 is co-chair of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance and Nicole Carbellano '02 is an officer in the Queer Resistance Front...
Last Wednesday, conservative organizations hosted a "Coming Out" party to celebrate their political ideology. The event was met with vociferous protest by the Queer Resistance Front, who picketed outside with posters accusing President Ronald Reagan with murderous negligence in the early years of the AIDS epidemic. While the protestors may have exhibited a degree of over-sensitivity, the organizers of the event exhibited an abundance of immaturity and plain stupidity...
...vandalism comes in the wake of a rash of homophobic incidents in Mather House and in other Houses. In October, Winthrop House residents found homophobic graffiti on their doors, and posters advertising the Mather House Queer Film Series and the BGLTSA Safe Zone were torn down about the same time...