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...Alliance (BGLTSA). BGLTSA board members covered the table with information packets, rainbow ribbons, and two posters—one for BGLT students to sign, titled “Out and Proud,” and one for allies to sign, titled “We support our queer peers.” When the board members closed up shop at 2:00 p.m., each poster had about 40 signatures. “We don’t have massive anti-gay protests,” said Noa Grayevsky ’07, the BGLTSA Community Chair...
Most people see the queer rights movement as having nothing whatsoever to do with poverty. While queer rights are vitally linked to issues of poverty and race, there is good reason for this misconception: the vast majority of the most visible leaders of the queer-rights movement have been wealthy, white, and male. But the fact that this phenomenon exists is itself an illustration of why poverty and race are such important problems for queer communities in America. The reason the vast majority of the most visible leaders of the queer rights movement—and the most prominent queer...
...hire you. And while public opinion is improving with regard to bisexual, gay, and lesbian Americans, discrimination is still a fact of life for those in all but the most accepting industries and regions of the country. Moreover, discrimination based on gender identity/expression and sexual orientation disproportionately impacts queer Americans who are poor. So while McKinsey might be hosting BGLT recruiting sessions at Harvard, managers at fast-food restaurants may still be refusing to hire openly queer people. That’s what keeps the disproportionate percentage of impoverished queer Americans in poverty...
...We’re just here to support the queer community and to tell them that it’s not okay that we’re not allowed into their organization,” said Joshua D. Smith ’08, the political chair for the BGLTSA. “We don’t single out the military—we believe that all organizations that discriminate...should not be allowed on campus to recruit...
Take Point scholar Maya Marcel-Keyes of Chicago, for instance. The 20-year-old daughter of conservative activist and former presidential candidate Alan Keyes, Marcel-Keyes has a girlfriend but has dated two boys; identifies herself as queer (not lesbian), pro-life and "anarchist"; and attends Mass whenever she can spare the time from her menagerie. (When Marcel-Keyes and I spoke recently, she and her girlfriend had a rabbit, a ferret, a cockatiel, two rats and two salamanders.) For their part, several of the young Exodus Christians seemed more stereotypically gay--"I love that Prada bag!" a 16-year...