Queers & Allies shares the love with annual Kiss In

If straight people laid out in public and had a giant make-out session, everyone would be pissed. It just goes to show you that the gay people who get all the attention don't want to be seen as normal, they want to be special. My perception of the Queers and Allies organization is now one of a bunch of Paris-Hilton-Like attention whores. I hope that is what they are going for. Fortunately, I am not one to generalize, and I know that there are normal gay people out there. It is just too bad that the ones who claim to speak for the whole community are like this.

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• Posted by eljakeo on April 12, 2011 at 8:17 p.m.
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Although it might be odd if "straight people laid out in public and had a giant make-out session," I think we're talking about something different here. It's different because "straight people" don't have the same issue as members of the LGBTQ community. If you're LGBTQ, you might feel like it isn't socially acceptable to publicly show your affection to the person you're dating. It's simply not as socially accepted for two guys to hold hands as it is for a guy and a girl to hold hands. One way to start changing a social norm you feel is problematic is to act contrary to it. The problem is that it's difficult and uncomfortable to change social norms alone. It can even result in confrontation and bullying. Considering that, it makes sense to me that an LGBTQ group wants to get together to show students that there are many different kinds of relationships and different kinds of people. I like the idea of trying to get students to question why seeing an unconventional interaction makes them more uncomfortable than seeing a conventional one.

It's hard to fault people for wanting to be able to be true to who they are and to - at the same time - be able to fit in and be socially accepted.

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• Posted by gox1616 on April 12, 2011 at 8:31 p.m.
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Most people are just as uncomfortable seeing a straight couple make out in public as they are a gay couple. This is just another flamboyant attempt by some members of the gay community (specifically Q&A, who does this same kind of stuff a lot, it seems) to make themselves stand out and earn the Queer (as in strange) title. It is not their sexual orientation that makes them "queer," it's the fact that they think they are special and need to get everyone's attention by doing things like this that simply aren't socially acceptable, no matter who is doing them. If Queers and Allies wants homosexuals to be treated like normal people, maybe they should just act normal. Crazy thought, I know.

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• Posted by eljakeo on April 12, 2011 at 9 p.m.
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Why not show how normal it is to be gay and just go to class, or go to work, or go shopping. Why does everything about being gay (for some) have to do with some sort of physical contact? It was Richard Hatch (Survivor: All Stars) who rubbed his what have you up against Susan Hawk. What was inside him that made him just have to get naked and then rub up against somebody against their will. In other words a sexual assault on network TV. I have met several gay people who just want to do their work and be thought of as a decent person. I have also met a couple of people who if they aren't allowed to flout their sexuality scream that they are being discriminated against. I put the particiapants of this little demonstration in the latter group.

There is a name for this; exhibitionism, a psychological disorder.

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• Posted by Calvin on April 12, 2011 at 11:13 p.m.
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They do this every year, and every year, it doesn't get any less stupid. "We want to educate people on why they are shocked," doesn't really synch up with, "We don't want to shock people." You know it's going to be shocking, but somehow it's our fault for being shocked? Here's the thing: I don't like it when the anti-abortion groups come in with that hundred-foot tall montage of grisly abortion photos, and I'm pro-life. The very people who are putting on this event probably have also criticized those obscene images. But they decide making everybody uncomfortable with intimate affection is somehow different? Only marginally. This isn't "holding hands," this is shoving things down people's throat, just like Westboro.

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• Posted by xz007 on April 13, 2011 at 7:57 a.m.
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Maybe if it was normal to study one's own mind, people would understand the emotional intensity produced by observing PDA is due to mirror neurons firing and not necessarily negative, kiss ins would be the norm.

Intense emotionality isn't bad or good, just intense. Sexuality is intense and subtle. It confuses the weak minded. Luckily, those weaklings are given instruction on how to hate. Otherwise, they might realize they empathise with others. Then hatred would dissipate and the prison industrial complex would need new slaves.

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• Posted by on April 13, 2011 at 1:45 p.m.
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I don't want to see straight couples doing this kind of thing and I definately don't want to see homosexuals doing this kind of thing around campus. Homosexuals are not being prosecuted for doing this kind of thing in the privacy of their home...and that is where they should be doing it. It is not a right for gays to have any of their behaviors accepted by society. This kind of activity--along with the public drag queen show each year--works against their interests. Very few people are going to be convinced that this type of behavior is normal and acceptable in public.

Also...heteronormative is a ridiculous and made up term. Replace heteronormative with "acceptable" or "normal"

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• Posted by Thatcher on April 13, 2011 at 1:45 p.m.
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