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Gaypril, a month full of activities for the queer community and its supporters, is meant to address these concerns. During Gaypril, the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) tries to create a space in which all queer students and their supporters can feel comfortable and proud of who they are. Sometimes that simply means raising queer visibility; sometimes that means throwing a party; sometimes that means educating people about issues like campus policies; and sometimes that means talking about sexual practices or identities that are normally only mentioned with a snicker or a sneer...
...worth mentioning. But the more people assume, the more arched eyebrows at same-sex couples walking down the street, the more stares at students whose genders are difficult to distinguish, the more gossip about people coming out of the closet, the more discomfort about mentioning one’s queer gender or sexuality, the fewer such mentions, the more people assume...
Events like observing the National Day of Silence or even our Drag Night serve to remind us that queer people exist and are worth mentioning. Often it is our most controversial events that do the best to raise our visibility. After e-mail debates about our BDSM Panel or our Sex Toy Party, some people will think the BGLTSA is too “radical,” some people will think that we’re doing good work, but everyone is less likely to take for granted that all the people on their e-mail lists, in their...
...course, the fact that events like the BDSM Panel or Queer Sex 101 are considered radical is just one more reason why we believe it’s so important to offer them. The goal of the BGLTSA isn’t merely to change our definition of “normal” to include a few new Will-&-Grace-esque, white male sexual identities. We think everyone, regardless of sexual or gender identity, should be respected and treated like an individual, and this will never happen unless we challenge conventional standards of sexuality and gender. Safe, consensual sexual...
Another important step in making Harvard a more accepting place is educating students about issues of importance to the queer community. Bringing in speakers like Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer, holding a panel about queer related senior theses, and co-sponsoring a workshop on sexual violence in BGLTQ communities are all events that we hope will empower students to engage in the issues that they care about. This is especially important given the quickly changing nature of laws and campus policies regarding queer issues...