Word: queerness
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Though Harvard voices a strong commitment to BGLT students, a number of important policies are rarely debated in a larger campus context. For transgender students—and often, queer students in general—basic issues of bathroom access and housing policy are a bureaucratic nightmare each and every day. When you can be arrested for going in a bathroom that doesn’t match the sex on your birth certificate or you’re paired with a roommate who urges you to “turn straight,” your best bet is often...
...door, but it’s another thing to put that support into action. While we tabled in Annenberg Hall for the Gaypril dance, many students lost interest as soon as they learned what the dance was for. Yes, I wanted to explain, it’s a queer dance. Yes, some guy (or girl) might flirt with you. I go to parties that are largely straight, girls tell me I smell good and I survive. It’s easy to regard queer events as part of a positive and necessary movement without actually attending or supporting them...
...perhaps a more decided leaning toward that part of life which falls under the head of play than has America. So it is not surprising that such a thin thread of amusement as crossword puzzles could entangle the whole people for so many months. Nor it is quite queer that the faculty of an American institution of higher learning should like its own little sport. Examinations thus continue to hold full sway in the hearts of the learned clan and an odd kind of examination at that...
...Issue demonstrates exactly the unjustified generalizations and lack of nuanced debate which make such an issue necessary (“Perspective’s Girl Talk,” April 16). In addition to holding Perspective responsible for emasculating men (and, a fortiori, the popularity of “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”), Smith misrepresents Perspective and misconstrues and trivializes the idea of gender equality...
...This exclusion, which students now observe in an entire Perspective issue devoted to one gender, has consequences: Men are emasculated and expressions of their masculinity—including criticism of sacrosanct television shows like “Sex and the City” and “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”—become politically incorrect...