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About 30 students gathered in Boylston Hall last night to kick off “Gaypril,” a month set to include gay pride celebrations, a day of silence to raise awareness about the prevalance of homophobia, and a panel of sadomasochism experts...
...Gaypril, which has been hosted by the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) for nearly a decade, serves to “promote the visibility and strength of a BGLTQ community on campus,” said co-chair Stephanie M. Skier...
...potential imminence of same-sex unions in Massachusetts did not get much air time during Gaypril, Harvard’s academic-calendar-friendly version of June’s Gay Pride Month. What the Harvard public saw, instead, was quarrelling between student groups...
...Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian and Transgendered Supporters Alliance’s (BLGTSA), Harvard’s main LGBT group and the overseers of Gaypril, ran just one opinion piece in The Crimson during the month: a preemptive defense of the group’s highly-debated “Kiss-in.” A month or so later, three students representing the “recently reformed” Queer Resistance Front responded on this page by eviscerating nearly everything the BGLTSA had done in April. They called Gaypril events “decontextualized performances...
...overjoyed at the sudden omnipresence of these alternatively-desiring young people. Certainly a variety of heartwarming spectacles were available for our delectation: from the festive kiss-in to drag bingo, from the Day of Silence to “Camp,” the cleverly-titled bgltq dance. With Gaypril, the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) intended to “fight homophobia” and increase queer visibility at Harvard...