Word: queered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...least seven non-Harvard affiliated groups, including the radical ACT UP and Queer Nation, will rally in the Square on Commencement Day to protest speaker Gen. Colin L. Powell and the ban on gays in the military, Harvard anti-ban activists said yesterday...
...American Civil Liberties Union, the Fenway Community Health Center, the Lavender Political Alliance, Operation Lift the Ban and Queer Nation are planning "a rally in Harvard Square in between the morning and afternoon ceremonies," said Michael D. O'Laughlin, a member of the Graduate School of Education Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Students and a member of the Commencement Pride Coalition...
...lesbians are thought to be a "minority," analogous to African Americans, Latinos or any other ethnic group. Thus we have Gay Pride marches, just as we have St. Patrick's Day parades or Puerto Rican Day. Gay militants have even rallied, in some cities, around the idea of a "queer nation...
...useful and possibly progressive. Before the gay-rights movement, homosexuality was conceived as a diffuse menace, attached to no particular group and potentially threatening everyone, at least in its "latent" form. So, naturally, as gays came out, they insisted on a unique and prideful group identity: We're queer, and we're here! How else do you get ahead in America except by banding together and hoisting a flag...
About 100 of the Harvard marchers were undergraduates, said Javier Romero '95, co-chair of the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students' Association (BGLSA). The students shouted several chants, including, "Lift the ban!" and "We're here, we're queer, our parents think we're studying...