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...turnout was a little disappointing, though I think those that were there liked it,” Ocean writes in an e-mail. “Not too many people came outside of the usual queer crowd that goes out. I would have hoped for more straight people to be there as I thought it to be an event for people who had never been to a gay bar to go and see what it was like.” The event was advertised as “gay senior bar” to the e-mail lists, which Ocean...
Nico Carbellano ’04 of Dudley House, Yumi Lee ’04 of Cabot House, and Jessica M. Rosenberg ’04 of Adams House are all Literature concentrators. They comprise the executive board of the recently re-formed Queer Resistance Front...
...seems obvious that, at a cultural moment in which people gather to watch both Queer as Folk and the first-ever same-sex kiss on daytime television, visibility in and of itself need not be political at all. It therefore seems rather strange that the BGLTSA should appropriate a variety of political actions proper to—and effective in—very different historical circumstances. Kiss-ins, for example, were once a form of direct action that gave voice to a defiant and threatened sexuality—as in the infamous series of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash...
...delectation: from the festive kiss-in to drag bingo, from the Day of Silence to “Camp,” the cleverly-titled bgltq dance. With Gaypril, the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) intended to “fight homophobia” and increase queer visibility at Harvard...
...kissing is permitted. Your House’s upcoming formal, your friendly neighborhood final clubs, some steamy party in Leverett Towers—you probably don’t think twice about seeing a straight couple making out in those contexts, but would you be so blithe about a queer pairing? Would you wrinkle your nose at two boys? Would you hoot and holler at two girls? Would you squint and stare at a couple whose genders you couldn’t figure out? These are the double standards which today’s kiss-in hopes to highlight. Certainly...