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Self-proclaimed "smut writers" Ford and Cecelia Tan read graphic excerpts from their gay erotic works to a crowd of three dozen undergraduates at Harvard Hall last night. The reading and subsequent discussion was part of Queer Month at Harvard, funded by Open-Gate, an alumni organ that actively subsidizes campus events for gay students...
...supposed to discourage discrimination....This will send a message that Harvard student government doesn't care about issues affecting the queer community," Karteron said...
...This bill is a slap in the face of every queer student on this campus," wrote Anna M. Baldwin '00 in a message to the council's group e-mail list. "I am out-raged at the contempt for the rights of gay students implicit in this bill...
That is well and good. I guess small doses every once in a while of queer studies and other leftist fads are like the occasional flask of vodka; it doesn't hurt the body too much, and it's always good for a laugh...
Harvard has also flirted with queer studies, a mish-mash of 1960s performance theory and post-structuralism. Marxist cultural criticism and post-modernist theories seem to be mainstays of many introductory humanities courses...