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Homophobia in UCD![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “What is the use of rainbow week” is the title of a tread on the UCD student union message board. Followed by a comment that says “I don't know if the scrawls on the posters were homophobic - sounds like it was people who think it's funny to slag gay people, not necessarily homophobes!” Reading this makes me think of this Le Tigre song Tres bien and the line “because they will try to convince us that we have arrived, that we are already there, that it has happened. Because we need to live in the place where we are truly alive, present, safe and accounted for.” It’s true that the song is referring to people who say that there is equality between the sexes already and who do not see the institutional and personal forms of sexism and the patriotic society that we are living in. The sentiment can be used to explore the homophobia and heterosexism that are blatant at UCD. |
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