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...really be gay and Catholic?" Greg Gonsalves asks in Wednesday's [Feb. 13] Crimson. One can indeed. Tom Watson is not the only Queer Catholic on this campus, and on behalf of all of us I'd like to address Mr. Gonsalves' outrageous accusations...
Unlike the Ku Klux Klan and the Nazis, groups Mr. Gonsalves claims are analogous to the Catholic Church, the Church was not created with the express purpose of destroying human life. In fact, exactly the contrary is true. Many of its purposes match those of Queer Nation and ACT UP: freedom for the oppressed, healing for the sick, love for the outcast, truth for all people...
...People who are just coming out are not ready to hear the word queer. They have to come out in a community where they don't have to change the world," Flatt says...
...sure bigots are ingenious enough that if the word `queer' is reclaimed they will find another to insult us," he says...
Ravenscroft, who describes herself as a lesbian, says she likes the word "queer," opposes "homosexual," but on the whole, doesn't worry about it too much...