Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beneath the surface of brightly colored geometric figures, the house has experienced a week of conflict, as residents divided over the best ways to express the community's tolerance of different sexual orientations...
...wish here to provide my fellow residents in Mather House and my fellow students in the Harvard community with another account of what happened on that night of February 19. I want to present the issue this account raises, sexual harrassment of a heterosexual male by a homosexual male...
...denounce homophobia in any of its expressions and the assault of my friends on the member of my house. My friends were wrong, even if they were provoked. I also denounce with equal vigor sexual harassment, in all of its expressions, and the harassment of the said individual on my friend...
When my friend was sexually harassed, I did not conduct a public forum on sexual harassment. I went to the proper judicial channels of Harvard University. The BGLSA, prompted by the student who had harassed my friend, chose to do otherwise and held the Kiss-in. I was told by Harvard administrators before the Kiss-in not to discuss the Sunday case. The other group, however, felt free...
They made homophobia the issue. I now make sexual harassment the issue; it was the issue which created the confrontation, and it is an issue which should not have been suppressed. Homophobia has been highlighted while truth was forced to squirm in the sidelight. The perpetrator of the sexual harassment has become a hero of the cause unjustly, and undeservingly...