Word: gaypril
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While I admire the candor of Noah D. Oppenheim '00 (Column, Apr. 3) regarding his moral issues with "Gaypril" (and his bold decision to print slang variants of "clitoris" in an article decrying the "downright obscene"), I must disagree with his loaded assessment that "[queers] may need to accept that the biological footing of heterosexuality...cannot be overcome...
When you started reading this, you might have thought it had something to do with Gaypril, the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance's month-long celebration of queer culture. It doesn't, or at least it shouldn't. Treating cross-dressing as a strictly homosexual issue is falling into the same trap as my homophobic teammates; after all, there are plenty of heterosexual females wearing men's clothing in public. Ann Landers has advised teary wives that there isn't necessarily anything wrong with the secret lingerie in their husband's dresser. And she's right. Male cross...
...Gaypril--the Harvard queer community's pride month--arrived with a flurry of rainbow colors, provocative posters and pink triangles. Most of us will smile and nod at (or ignore) this little bout of activism and visibility and go our merry way. But, as with other waves of activism, Queer Harvard Month presents an opportunity for all members of the community to make a stand for something greater than ourselves--justice...
...rest of Gaypril: It should be a month of rainbow colors, but it should also be a time for debate. Those who oppose gay and lesbian rights are often not vocal in proportion to their numbers. That opinion is held close to the vest, often unconsciously. But only superficially is this silence of the opposition desirable. Without intelligent argument, laws and minds cannot be changed. For this reason, we urge conservatives to come out of the closet, so to speak...
...Oppenheim taking the BGLTSA pro-sex posters a bit too seriously? Didn't he, in a previous column defending the pictures of barely-clad women on his walls, discuss in a public forum a kind of sexuality that others might find objectionable? The BGLTSA's posters opened Gaypril in a funny and upbeat...