How ironic this is Ash Wednesday.
I am a member of the GLBTQ/Leadership Counsel (GLC), the ONLY organization on campus that political advocates on behalf of BC's GLBTQ community. Obviously, being on a very Jesuit university leads to many clashes. Last year, they canceled our benefit gala because they thought it was a "gay" dance where gay sex (yes, this is what actual BC administrators said to our face last year)and advocate the "gay lifestyle". Never mind the dance was not exclusive to just the GLBTQ community, was designed to raise funds for the Boston Living center, yada yada. They chose to cancel it because they were too homophobic to realize how being gay doesn't mean reducing us to who we have sex with, or even just an act of sex in general. This year, we decided to try to hold another dance that was explicitly in compliance with last years's demands from the administrators. Our benefit social gathering (we can't call it a dance) was to be called "A Celebration of Gay History" which would also include an award given to a member of the BC community who did something positive for the GLBTQ community.
Well, surprise surprise, they wanted us to remove:

1)"gay" from the title
2)"Celebrate" from the title--apparently celebrating means advocating the "gay lifestyle"
3)We could not use our name in the title or advertisements--we wouldn't be running the dance, it wouldn't be in our name.

So, we decided that because the event as the administrators wanted to see it wasn't in the spirit of what we, the GLC, wanted to convey.

I'm so sad and depressed.

Why can't people just let people live?

Homophobia, as I thought about it tonight, is inseparable from the concept of freedom. The freedom to love who you love, kiss who you kiss.

How sad it is