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ality in everyday conversation.
This heterosexual bias, he said, is
one of the factors that separates
the homosexual community from
the rest of the community.
“Straights come out all the time,
every day,” he said.
Issues such as sexism, racism
and other phobias further separate
the homosexual community into
factions, Thompson said.
“Fear within the community
adversely affects us as we try to
move toward a more unified
whole,” she said.
In an attempt to unify factions
on campus, LGBTA is sponsoring
Gay Day in the EMU Ben Linder
Room as a way to build a stronger
homosexual community on the
University campus.
“What brings us together as a
group and the differences that sep
arate us have the potential to cre
ate more of a support for each oth
er,” said Gabbie Hendel, LGBTA’s
co-director.
By recognizing differences and
by providing a forum to deal with
the issues that split the homosexual
community apart, Hendel said she
hopes Gay Day will help strengthen
ties within the homosexual com
munity in an effort to begin build
ing a stronger campus community.
“I would encourage everyone to
go to Gay Day,” Hendel said.
Gay Day participants will be di
vided into sexual identity caucus
es where they discuss issues that
bring the homosexual community
together. The day will end with a
speaker who will discuss how the
community can work together to
move past the issues that divide
the community.
“We are hoping to acknowledge
our differences as a way to deal
with them,” Thompson said.
Stephanie Carnahan, director of
LGBTA, said she hopes Gay Day
will “find solutions to some of the
problems we are faced with with
in the community and the fre
quency with which they occur.”
People interested in training to
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to request a Bridges Presentation
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