Word: queers
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...committee allotted Peter T. Wilson '99 a $250 grant from Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) for his proposal, submitted on the behalf of BGLTSA tutors and students, for a tri-House queer tea. Council Finance Committee Chair Jeffrey A. Letalien '01 said that the proposal was given the HUDS grant, rather than money from the challenge grant, since the costs for the project consisted entirely of food...
Christopher M. Kirchhoff's column arguing against the Initiative 416 same-sex marriage ban in Nebraska ("Queer Nebraska," Nov. 15) couldn't have been more accurate...
Halloween may be a gay high Holy Day in Greenwich Village, but it was business as usual on the Toronto set of Queer as Folk. O.K., almost as usual. Amid various cross-dressers and naughty priests, there was a crew guy outfitted in a spangly cowboy outfit, an assistant director dressed like Cher and actresses Thea Gill and Michelle Clunie--fresh from filming a lesbian love scene--tricked out as "Texas hookers" with red feather boas. Then there was the pumpkin-carving contest, including one jolly squash accessorized with a...well, put it this way: it's not a banana...
...British series was the brainchild of Russell T. Davies, who based it on the lives of his friends in gritty Manchester. (The title comes from the saying "There's naught so queer as folk"--there's nothing as strange as people.) Davies took heat from conservatives and from gays, who called it defamatory and unrealistic. "It's realistic for men who live like that," he argues. "It's not realistic for everyone." Cowen calls such criticism "internalized homophobia...
...Part of being part of the queer community is being a little out of the ordinary, and I think that's what we should celebrate on Coming Out Day," said Peter T. Wilson '99, Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters adviser in Eliot House. "I think those posters really make people stop and read what they really thought they read...