Word: queered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to get the community out here to show support for the queer kids at Harvard," said BGLTSA co-chair Michael K.T. Tan '01, who added that the group did not have any concrete demands...
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...find it ironic that a piece ("Sensationalism Does Not Instill Pride," Oct. 13) that accuses the BGLTSA of co-opting the silence of closeted people, moderately gay people and the poor Nike logo quotes a suicide note to suggest that queer visibility kills queers. Indeed, it isn't the threat of murder, disownment and discrimination in every walk of life that keeps people in the closet, the authors claim, but sexually explicit posters and publicly queer peers, making gays their own worst gaybashers...
Certainly I can recognize, as a much-maligned BGLTSA co-chair, the importance of establishing queer folk as "normal," but it's doubly important to interrogate those boundaries of normality. To those who found some of our posters offensive (and it's remarkable that it's the same 20 posters that are mentioned in this debate without regard for the 90 or so that featured traditional Coming Out Day slogans, shocking statistics and Liza Minelli), ask yourself why you found them offensive...
...poster blitz, if anyone bothered to read our literature, this BGLTSA works on wonderfully substantive programming that includes volunteer work at local high schools and gay rights organizations, fighting harassment in first-year dorms, the renewal of a long-dead support group on coming out, the promotion of queer studies, phat dances, art shows and speaking events. We are more than silly sensationalists, silly, masturbatory fags and dykes out to put our egos and personal pathologies on display. Idealistic, perhaps, in our desire to screw the world, but alive, angry and proud...