Word: queered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book interweaves Genet's early years with excerpts from his highly autobiographical novels, creating a rich fabric of the facts and the fiction they gave rise to. The biography tracks Genet to Paris, where he became Cocteau's literary find, his "golden thug," and later, Sartre's "pet queer." White imbues even the most frequently told stories with a novel charm. His recreation of the De Beauvoir-Sartre headquarters at the Cafe Deux Magots is sardonic and affectionate, and the deliciously lengthy and opinionated portrait of Cocteau could stand on its own as a study of a "genius who never...
...what one might choose to do in bed with a consenting partner" is a matter of indifference, as the BGLSA now claims, isolated from the rest of one's life, it cannot at the same time be a radical act of "queer" rebellion against society. The BGLSA cannot have it both ways...
...Western culture has been institutionally homophobic for thousands of years, what is wrong with undermining it? If the heterosexual, patriarchal family is so deeply entrenched in Western social and political institutions, then homosexual activity clearly must unravel the fabric of such a society and "undermine civilization." The "queer" polemicists at least have the advantage of facing squarely the radical implications of their social and political program; the BGLSA's attempt to hide behind a screen of stolid social respectability is simply naive...
Imagine my surprise when I innocently picked up Wednesday's Crimson--only to find that queer folk such as moi-mem (and how better to show off my own queerly piquant style than to do it in French?) "undermine civilization." Qui, moi? Responsible for the decline and fall of civilizations from east to west and back again? My, my, but I have been a busy, busy girl. All that time I was supposed to be off writing my too-too fabulous dissertation, I was actually fiddling while Rome burned. I obviously do not have my priorities, er, straight. Calgon, take...
...percent segment of the population. We urge all members of the Harvard-Radcliffe community to recognize the hurtfulness and the patronizing contempt inherent in professor Mansfield's remarks. And we extend an open invitation to Harvey Mansfield to attend any one of our meetings, in order to learn about queer lifestyles and disabuse himself of the erroneous and harmful prejudices he has made it clear he harbors. Robert E. Giannino '95 Dennis K. Lin '93-'94 Natasha E. Litt '95 Co-Chairs, Harvard-Radcliffe BGLSA