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According to a victim who related the actions to us, the program consisted of a plainclothes policeman participating in the sexual and semi-sexual interplay in the bathroom for a period of time. He then leaves, only to return with his badge, arresting everyone who had been loitering (and not necessarily participating in the sexual conduct). We also know that the men have been charged with "open and gross lewdness"--a felony, I am told by Kevin Cathcart, the co-director of Gay Lesbian Advocates and Defenders of Boston...
...been subjected (not the violence of the arrest but the homophobia at its root), and that, more suitable and advantageous to our cause would be silence. Or perhaps we should have voiced our opinions apologetically. Would this dissociate the Harvard gay community far enough from Those Men in the Bathroom to leave our cause intact...
...stands, you have chosen to attack our defense of the dignity of gay people and converted it into a half-baked scheme of advocacy of bathroom sex. Your editorial closes by calling bathroom sex "a practice very few people can defend." It effectively deploys society's fear and loathing of public sex (a fear to which I, too, must admit) with paternalistic censure and issues a warning to gays: keep your mouths shut or we won't give you your "much-deserved" rights...
That letter was never intended as a comprehensive list of alternative enforcement procedures to curb sex in the bathroom; the suggestions were in parentheses. We do have real proposals for resolving the issue and do not deserve to have them mischaracterized in the form of ludicrous suggestions such as putting up a sign simply saying...
...letter pointed out the pervasiveness of homophobia and names an excessive and unnecessary violence. Our letter spoke to the issue of the arrested persons in the bathroom and at no point attempted to justify people having sex in public places. On the latter issue, we do not pass judgment for or against. I believe I reflect the opinion of the gay community in expressing our divided and conflicting views on this issue...