Word: queered
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However, I must point out that good intentions do not suffice. I'm sure the editors of The Crimson consider accuracy in reporting a very high priority and the article published on the 24th was sadly inaccurate in ways that are reductive and limiting to queer communities...
...wrong because I helped form Spectrum and I am not gay. What am I, if not gay? I can't tell you precisely--not because I don't want to, but because I can't. I'm certainly not straight, and the label I prefer to use is "queer...
...Crimson reporter who wrote this article never asked me if I was gay, so why did she assume I was? Did she think we were really just all gay and that our decision to use the word "queer" was just a politically correct gesture? She wrote that Spectrum was "promoted" as a group for queers of color, as if that's just the way it was "promoted," while in reality it is something else. Spectrum is a group for queers of color, and that is a fact that doesn't need to be placed in quotes...
...suits. We chatted for a moment and I learned that they were Peter LaBarbera, the publisher of an anti-gay journal, and Bob Knight of the Family Research Council, one of the nation's largest religious right organizations. My heart began to pound as I quietly removed the "Queer Harvard" button from my backpack, hoping not to tip my hand for a few moments...
Issues of central concern to queer-identified people in communities of color came up in your article on Spectrum (Oct. 24), and I would like to comment on some of those issues. While I understand that reporting always has to simplify in some sense, I do want to emphasize that what Spectrum intends to address is a complex issue and merits some clarification...