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...welcomes them—it isn’t necessarily easy for those individuals to feel comfortable getting involved. Straight people may feel intimidated taking part in the other facets of the club, such as its political endeavors, if they view the BGLTSA strictly as a social space for queer students.But members of the BGLTSA have sensed that there are other issues with the organization that inhibit its effectiveness as a political player. In an interview, former Political Chair Katherine E. Smith ’10, said, “the BGLTSA serves a social and community building function...
...result was a triumph of electoral timidity, worsened by fake populism. By a queer flip-flop of logic, a majority of Australian voters (55% to 45%) decided that to have an Australian President appointed by a democratically elected government was elitist and unsafe, whereas to have an immensely rich hereditary monarch as their head of state was somehow democratic and good. To understand how this weird inversion could occur, one must be aware that Australians are even more skeptical about the character of their "pollies" than Americans are, though they have little reason to be: the level of serious political...
...founding members of the Split Britches Theatre Company—gathered Monday evening in the Fong Auditorium. The occasion was a roundtable discussion collectively sponsored by Harvard’s Program of Studies in Women, Gender, and Sexuality, the Course Innovation Funds, and Boston-area queer theater group Theater Offensive. LEAVING A LEGACY Both the Five Lesbian Brothers and the Split Britches are known for irreverent, satirical, and emotionally raw performances in queer theater, and members of both groups have been honored with the OBIE award, Off-Broadway theater’s highest accolade. The discussion Monday evening was ostensibly...
...Sussex has also pioneered many historical methods, according to Livesey, including queer theory and the new social history concerned with women’s oral history...
...celebration of being visible and being proud of what you are,” said former BGLTSA co-chair Gilda D. Medina ’09. “It’s to let people know you have people backing you up whether you’re queer or straight.” By the end of the event, about 125 supporters had written their names on brightly colored index cards, which were taped together to form a quilt. The quilt, the centerpiece of yesterday’s celebration, was modeled after the NAMES Project Foundation?...