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...editor and founder of HQ, Harvard's only magazine dedicated to bisexual, gay and lesbian issues, I must respond to an article written in the February 15 issue of the Harvard Salient which criticizes the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations for its funding of HQ and The Rag, a radical feminist publication which, to be sure, has the right to speak for itself...
Myopically, the author of the Salient piece fails to note that more than any other group on campus, the bi/gay/lesbian community embodies the spirit of multiculturalism and diversity. The staff and contributing writers of our magazine are drawn from a constellation of groups, a constellation as diverse and as dedicated to true multiculturalism as any magazine staff on campus (particularly, though by no means restricted to, the conservative ones), and they write about issues ranging from coming out as a Black lesbian in Louisiana to male homoerotics in Tokugawa Japan to racism within the bi/gay/lesbian community and its impact...
This represents just a smattering of the issues grappled with between the covers of HQ, issues denigrated by the Salient as "fetid excreta." Needless to say, I question the Salient's committment to racial equality when it writes off these complex and often charged subjects as "sub-amateurish." It is also important to note than the Salient article irresponsibly (and admittedly so) selects an uncharacteristic quotation to gloss judgment over the entire magazine (and dangerously close to the entire bi/gay/lesbian community), a tactic which strikes me as more "sub-amateurish" than anything printed...
...think the Core is the worst of both worlds,"says Dianne M. Reeder '93, editor of the Salient."On one hand, it offers no set body of knowledge,no common experience to draw on. Also, thedistribution situation is no good because we can'ttake departmental courses...
Panelists included Naomi M. Hamburg '93, a member of the Date Rape Task Force; Malcolm A. Heinicke '93, chair of the Undergraduate Council; Minna M. Jarvanpaa '93, co-president of the Radcliffe Union of Students; Dianne M. Reeder '93, editor of the Harvard Salient and Monica Salamon '95, the assistant director for general affairs for the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard (CLUH...