"Some of Your Best Friends": LGBT Issues at Salem State College in the 1970s
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"Some of Your Best Friends": LGBT Issues at Salem State College in the 1970s
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Some of Your Best Friends
This item is a notice about a public program called "Some of Your Best Friends." It included a film and discussion,
Some of Your Best Friends.:"Who is a 'Homosexual'?"
![Some of Your Best Friends.:"Who is a 'Homosexual'?"](http://di.salemstate.edu/activism/files/square_thumbnails/91c5b03896e778863d22f2d549eae373.jpg "Some of Your Best Friends.:"Who is a 'Homosexual'?"")
This article discusses who the "homosexual" is, drawing on stereotypes and the Kinsey scale to make that identification.
Apologies on Last Week's Lecture
An apology because "last week's" lecture was not as successful and "was understandably unfavorable."
Some of Your Best Friends: "Public Attitudes Toward Homosexuality"
![Some of Your Best Friends: "Public Attitudes Toward Homosexuality"](http://di.salemstate.edu/activism/files/square_thumbnails/f48d0dccb892450c950753e000102ec5.jpg "Some of Your Best Friends: "Public Attitudes Toward Homosexuality"")
How "society" views homosexuality.
Some of Your Best Friends: Is Homosexuality A Sin ? ? ?
The relationship between religion and homosexuality.
Some of Your Best Friends: The Meaning of Gay Liberation for Heterosexuals
How the Gay Liberation movement and heterosexuals connect.
!["Straights"and "Gays"](http://di.salemstate.edu/activism/files/square_thumbnails/a929e54681afcfcd83739772de0263b1.jpg ""Straights"and "Gays"")
Some of Your Best Friends: "The Gay Revolution"
![Some of Your Best Friends: "The Gay Revolution"](http://di.salemstate.edu/activism/files/square_thumbnails/6b4b4c42db350f149514cc2b529e6e83.jpg "Some of Your Best Friends: "The Gay Revolution"")
This column discusses some history of the "modern Gay movement", including the Stonewall riots.
Some of Your Best Friends
A column written by a student member of the SSC Gay Center about their experiences at Salem State.
Some of Your Best Friends
"This week we offer the thoughts and views of a Gay woman student from SSC"
Some of Your Best Friends
This is a followup column to one published on November 5th, 1975. This column goes into detail on the student's relationship.
Some of Your Best Friends: Homophobia All Around You
The column looks at homophobia in law enforcement, psychology, etc.
Some of Your Best Friends: Homophobia at Salem State College
The article discusses the tearing down of signs advertising the play "Cabaret".
Causes of Homosexuality: The Stereotyped and the Real
The article discusses an interview in the magazine "Psychology Today" about stereotypes.
Some of Your Best Friends: A Call for Gay Activism
A member of the Class of 1977 calls for activism rather than just educating "the straight community".
Some of Your Best Friends: The Morality of Homosexuality
A review of Wainwright Churchill's book "Homosexual Behaviour Among Males"
Some of Your Best Friends: Homosexuals as Child Molesters
The article discusses the common stereotype of "homosexuals as child molesters" and presents research that shows the stereotype is wrong.
Some of Your Best Friends
The article discusses psychology research into the "causes of homosexuality".
Some of Your Best Friends
The column discusses posters for Gay Film Night being ripped down around campus.
Some of Your Best Friends
The column discusses the "difference between male and female homosexuality."
Jesus Christ Condemns Homosexuality
Three letters to the editor in reaction to the Some of Your Best Friends column about the morality of homosexuality
Letter to the Editor: A Rebuttal
This letter is a rebuttal to the Some of Your Best Friends column entitled "How I Feel About Women". It's filled with stereotypes about lesbians.
Letter to the Editor: A Lesbian Issue
A rebuttal to the "A Rebuttal" Letter to the editor (11/19/75) by an anonymous author. This letter takes that author to task for his "ostensibly misogynistic" letter.
Letter to the Editor: Gays are Human Beings
This letter addresses the "Some of Your Best Friends: The Morality of Homosexuality" column (February 4, 1976).
Letters to the Log
This letter is replying to letters regarding the "Morality of Homosexuality" column. The letter writer is the author of that column.
A Matter of Priorities
The author reacts to the comic strip "Doonesbury" in which a character "comes out".
Logos
A Christian column that addresses "misconceptions about Christianity", including "homosexuals say that Jesus said homosexuality was OK".
Letter to the Editor: Some of Your Best Friends
The letter addresses the fact that all of the signed "Some of Your Best Friends" columns have been written by men. It discusses the power dynamics that might make it difficult for women to sign their names.
Some of Your Best Friends: Coming Out
The column addresses the reaction of people on campus to his "coming out".
Human Sexuality Committee
Announcement of a lecture and discussion on homosexuality by representatives of the Gay Speakers Bureau.
Women's Fair Here
The article describes the Women's Fair, which includes a discussion with women from the Gay Speakers Bureau.
Harsh Laws Oppress Gays
A student did a random survey of 110 students from Salem State . The survey covered attitudes about LGBTQ people.
Sexuality Series Begins New Programs
The article mentions lecture and discussion by members of the Gay Speakers Bureau. It was the best attended lecture of the lecture series.
Lavender Rhino Arrives at SSC
The article talks about posters of the Lavender Rhino that have appeared on campus. The posters "signify the opening of a hotline and drop-in center for homosexual men and women in connection with the Human Sexuality Center."
Letter to the Editor: Response to Homosexuality Articles
This unsigned letter to the editor speaks positively about Dave Newton's columns. The letter was written by Harry Allard, though unsigned here.
Letter to the Editor
This letter to the editor was written by French Professor Harry Allard. He had written the letter in the March 26, 1975 issue that lauded Dave Newton's columns. He had signed his name but the Log had taken it out. The editor claimed that one of the…
Letter to the Editor: Gay is Beautiful
A letter regarding the editor's reply to Harry Allard's letter about removing his name (March 26, 1975).
![Some of Your Best Friends: Gay Liberation as a "Threat" to Society](http://di.salemstate.edu/activism/files/square_thumbnails/aa10e2909964a1a3ace4166c2da32ebf.jpg "Some of Your Best Friends: Gay Liberation as a "Threat" to Society")
Letters to the Log
David Newton explains why the Log has decided to cancel the "Some of Your Best Friends" column.
Some of Your Best Friends
The Log, which had canceled the column, brought it back "at the special request of the HSP". The Log included the following statement: "The opinions expressed in this column are those of the student authors. members of the Salem State Gay Task Force…
Of Fag Sex and Vanilla Ice Cream
The piece is in response to the Heterosexual Man letter (December 15, 1976), written by David Newton
Some of Your Best Friends
A brief column that discusses Gay Task Force plans for the 1978-1979 academic year.
Some of Your Best Friends
The column contains "poetry written by students of the gay community at Salem State College."
Some of Your Best Friends
The column references a Boston Globe article about gay rights. The article asked for "the public's opinions on homosexuals being barred from specific jobs." The column contains a survey for the SSC community on the same subject.
Some of Your Best Friends
The column contains a guide to nightlife: "as you might imagine there are not very many gay bars on the staid, conservative North Shore, but there are a few."
Homo Sexuality: Normality Questioned Again
The article takes issue with the Some of Your Best Friends column (10/5/1977) that argued that homosexuality is normal.
Sexual Preference Irrelevant
This letter addresses Jeffrey Walsh's column (Homosexuality: Normality Questioned Again) in the October 26, 1977 issue of The Log.
Homosexuality Normal?
This letter to the editor takes issue with Jeffrey Walsh's column "Homo Sexuality: Normality Questioned Again" (10/26/1977)
Some of Your Best Friends: How to Become Gay
The column addresses a letter to Ann Landers (an advice columnist) from a mother who wants to know why her son is gay.
Letters to The Log: The Gay Go-Around
This letter to the editor is in response to letters by Allard and Newton in the previous issue. Allard and Newton reacted to Walsh's column on October 26, 1977.
Some of Your Best Friends: What is Bisexuality?
The author, whose name was withheld by request, discusses the nature of bisexuality.
Some of Your Best Friends: Blue Jeans Have New Meaning
The column discusses Blue Jeans Day. On the day, "if you are gay, wear blue jeans".