Abstract

Legitimate or Liberate? Lesbian and Gay Students Choose

The article discusses about students who are lesbian or gay in the U.S. It adds that while lesbians and gay are fighting hard to get a berth in society the combination of AIDS and a conservative decade has presented new challenges for lesbian and gay students. Many of them feel that acceptance they are trying to gain is threatened. The agenda these students have chosen is one that focuses on legitimation rather than liberation. There might be nothing inherently political in a gay dance, a rap session, a same-sex couple holding hands in the dining hail. But because the freedom to partake in these essentially social activities is systematically denied to lesbian and gay students, striving for their acceptance is political.