Word: queerness
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Harvard has come a long way from its days of expelling students believed to be gay: bisexual, gay, and lesbian (though not transgender) students are now protected by the University’s non-discrimination code, openly queer professors profess in classes where openly queer students learn, and all Houses now have Gender and Sexuality Tutors. It’s easy to think that homophobia and heterosexism at Harvard are things of the past...
...homophobia, heterosexism, and transphobia are still very much a fact of life here. Many queer students are still expected to explain or defend their identities and decisions, there are queer students who continue to find Harvard an inhospitable place to come out, people’s sexual and gender identities still serve as a basis for prejudice, and anti-queer acts of violence occur. Moreover, some social circles are considerably less accepting than others. Despite all of the progress Harvard has made, we can still make the University a better place for queer students, faculty, and staff...
Claim to Harvard Fame: Being really queer...
...million digital-learning center at Utah Valley State College. The senators were worried about "the drift of the campus," says UVSC president Bill Sederburg, who fielded complaints from them about an Oct. 20 campus speech by Michael Moore, a student production of The Vagina Monologues and a course on queer theory in literature. "The legislators are saying 'We don't want the college to go too far and lose touch with the community.' But we have an obligation to protect academic freedom...
...fact, these series represent a wide range of voices (as do more overtly gay-themed shows, from NBC's Will & Grace to Showtime's The L Word and Queer as Folk). Housewives is cartoony and parodic, Nip/Tuck slick and urbane, Six Feet Under moody and cerebral. "I don't think you could say they were all told from a specific perspective that comes from being gay," says ABC prime-time-entertainment president Stephen McPherson. "But if being gay makes you that talented, I'm going gay." In art, one could argue, sexual orientation shouldn't matter...