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Hardly. As John Leo pointed out in U.S. News & World Report, the contingent featured many non-Irish gay militants wearing familiar trademarks of gay radicalism like pearls, motorcycle jackets and T-shirts reading "QUEER BOY." Joined by Mayor David Dinkins, the group was welcomed with a boorish display of upraised fingers, loud epithets and one full can of beer...
...here at Harvard, groups like the Organization for the Advancement of Sexual Minorities (ORGASM) and the newly formed chapter of Queer Nation have succumbed to this self-destructive zeal to offend and outrage. To their credit, these groups have largely abandoned the dining hall kiss-ins and other inflamatory tactics of years ago. But their presentation of the film, "Stop the Church," as well as their well-publicized protest of Secretary Sullivan's visit to Harvard last year were tasteless and needlessly offensive...
...would not want to abandon the community of Queer people, even though I don't always agree with other Queer people, and even though people like Mr. Gonsalves may try to tell me what to do. In the same way, I am not going to abandon the Catholic Church, which is a source of strength and peace for me, and a way of worship that I love, simply because I don't always agree with its policies and because people like O'Connor try to tell me what...
Abandon, no. Fight--yes! And fight in many different ways. I support ACT UP's protest against the Church's politics (though I do not support the desecration of the Eucharist) wholeheartedly. I also think that Tom Watson and I and other "out" Queer Catholics have done much more in the Harvard Catholic community to foster understanding and acceptance than ACT UP's protest has. Activism on an interpersonal level is an essential part of attaining our goals, just as much as rallying and marching...
...stop Cardinal O'Connor! Yes, stop all the self-righteous bigots (Catholic and non-Catholic) who are responsible for the physical and psychological violence done to Queer people, PWA's, and women every...