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Straight girls, leave the pride to PRIDE!
Issue date: 10/18/05 Section: Letters to the Editor
I am not an avid reader of the Carolinian - in fact, last year I never once read an article. However, this year one of my friends is writing for the paper and she has been pushing me to read it. So every time a new paper comes out I pick it up and read it. This week's paper however made me angry.
We are at UNCG and most of us know that G stands for gay not Greensboro and I am a Lesbian. After talking to several of my gay friends I knew I needed to write this letter. How do you have self-proclaimed straight girls write about such important events as coming out and Pridefest? These are huge events in a GLBTQ's life. In Kitty Campbell's article "Coming Out to Create Change" she makes a statement, "What gives me the right to encourage GLBTQ folk to come out?" The answer to that question is you don't. You don't know what it is like so you can't talk about it.
However, Kitty's article was nowhere near as offensive as Brook Taylor's "Straight Girl Goes Gay." Good for you for having gay friends and a boyfriend who is gay (that's another issue), but how can you take the Pridefest and turn it in a cheap article about how you got to see men with their shirts off and making out with a girl? That is insulting to say the least, and is "lesbionic" even a word? Not according to my spell check.
In my opinion the Carolinian needs to find themselves a GLBTQ writer on their staff, because the straight ones should not be handling issues like these.
Jenna Major
We are at UNCG and most of us know that G stands for gay not Greensboro and I am a Lesbian. After talking to several of my gay friends I knew I needed to write this letter. How do you have self-proclaimed straight girls write about such important events as coming out and Pridefest? These are huge events in a GLBTQ's life. In Kitty Campbell's article "Coming Out to Create Change" she makes a statement, "What gives me the right to encourage GLBTQ folk to come out?" The answer to that question is you don't. You don't know what it is like so you can't talk about it.
However, Kitty's article was nowhere near as offensive as Brook Taylor's "Straight Girl Goes Gay." Good for you for having gay friends and a boyfriend who is gay (that's another issue), but how can you take the Pridefest and turn it in a cheap article about how you got to see men with their shirts off and making out with a girl? That is insulting to say the least, and is "lesbionic" even a word? Not according to my spell check.
In my opinion the Carolinian needs to find themselves a GLBTQ writer on their staff, because the straight ones should not be handling issues like these.
Jenna Major
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