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...It’s queer, period. And Harvard’s first literary and cultural journal dedicated to queer issues is also the first intercollegiate publication of its kind...
About 15,000 copies of the first issue of “queer.” featuring poetry, fiction, art and essays by students at Harvard and from colleges across the country—from Yale to Chicago to the University of California, Berkeley—were distributed in dining halls, academic lounges and resource centers, as well as at the other participating colleges last Thursday...
According to co-editor Christopher R. Hughes ’06, queer. is dedicated to providing a literary and cultural forum for academic discourse coupled with reflective, informal and artistic meditations on queer issues. The editors also hope to secure for the journal formal respect and credibility among theorists in the field by incorporating an advisory board of seven prominent professors from around the country, “for general guidance on the theory and the direction of the magazine,” Hughes said...
...hope to further an understanding of what queer people share in common, if anything,” they wrote. “[Many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and queer (LGBTQ) people] seek to claim the menacing nature of the term and redeploy its power for their own program...
...said that in addition to the term’s long history of pejorative usage, the controversy is also due to the “very blasé way” in which television shows such as “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” and “Queer as Folk?...