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Gaypril--the Harvard queer community's pride month--arrived with a flurry of rainbow colors, provocative posters and pink triangles. Most of us will smile and nod at (or ignore) this little bout of activism and visibility and go our merry way. But, as with other waves of activism, Queer Harvard Month presents an opportunity for all members of the community to make a stand for something greater than ourselves--justice...
There is a great deal of work to be done, and that work needs an active, vocal, visible community. It also requires, and deserves, the support of the entire community, both queer and straight...
...staff is right to call for tolerance and protective legislation for gays and lesbians. But to state that the majority of Americans, who are conflicted about their personal views on homosexuality and uncomfortable with queer culture, are complicit in active persecution is inappropriate. Tolerance should exist for their views...
Another distortion in Oppenheim's column is the comparison between past movements for racial/gender equity and the current pro-queer movement. Oppenheim inherits the subtler arguments of those who would keep women in the kitchen and blacks at the back of the bus because they felt society was not ready. At one point, America looked unready for gender and racial equality; radical activism changed that. If America looks unready for non-heterosexual orientations to be accepted, it is because we are hopefully in the process of moving towards acceptance...
...Oppenheim thinks those posters are the sole "consciously constructed image that the queer community on campus wants to project," he should read the long list of serious events being scheduled for Queer Harvard Month, listed on posters around campus, and go to some. REBECCA REIDER '00 April...