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...oral-menstrual-eroticism, I saw no conservatives tear down Tuesday's ubiquitous smut. Imagine my outrage, then, upon seeing an avowed liberal, wearing the "coming out day" sticker, nonchalantly destroy two Republican candidate posters Tuesday evening. This movement must abandon its false pretense of open-mindedness. The increasingly bogus "queer" agenda won no supporters and gained at least this opponent today...
...find it ironic that a piece ("Sensationalism Does Not Instill Pride," Oct. 13) that accuses the BGLTSA of co-opting the silence of closeted people, moderately gay people and the poor Nike logo quotes a suicide note to suggest that queer visibility kills queers. Indeed, it isn't the threat of murder, disownment and discrimination in every walk of life that keeps people in the closet, the authors claim, but sexually explicit posters and publicly queer peers, making gays their own worst gaybashers...
Certainly I can recognize, as a much-maligned BGLTSA co-chair, the importance of establishing queer folk as "normal," but it's doubly important to interrogate those boundaries of normality. To those who found some of our posters offensive (and it's remarkable that it's the same 20 posters that are mentioned in this debate without regard for the 90 or so that featured traditional Coming Out Day slogans, shocking statistics and Liza Minelli), ask yourself why you found them offensive...
...putting up obscene posters and declaring themselves as queer political radicals, they don't help anyone," said Alexander A. Boni-Saenz '01, noting that the BGLTSA recently used several sexually explicit posters. "Not everyone wants to be identified as that...
...boyfriend once told me that if I'm not gyrating to Abba while oozing pride, I'm just not good enough. He thinks that the queer community is lucky to be different from me. That's what bothers me--not being excluded in a straight world but being secluded in a gay one. I can be a minority, but I don't know how to a minority within a minority...