The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill
recently hosted an online history exhibition titled “Queerolina” (get it?) that
covers LGBTQ history at and around the school’s campus.
The exhibition’s signature feature is an interactive
map that allows visitors
to click on pins representing locations on and around the UNC-Chapel Hill
campus where LGBTQ students’ “Queer histories” took place. Text and/or
audio helps, ahem, flesh out what historic event occurred at each place.
In one audio clip, a UNC alumnus describes the
basement of Wilson Library as a well-known meeting spot for gay men. He notes
that the library’s basement had a “very large men's room,” and adds that “the
activities that went on in that men's room were actually pretty unsavory at
times, frankly.” Good to know! Now that’s education!
So…statues,
busts, and pictures of straight white men have to go, but we must now mark the spot
where Chaz once suckcessfully successfully stuck his member thru a hole
in a bathroom stall? And what about memorializing the spot in back of Fetzer
Hall where Chad Erickson deflowered Betsy Smith in 1982? How come statues of
famous predecessors get the boot-- and Erickson and Smith are passed over-- but
Michael Fitzpatrick and Patrick Fitzmichael are honored for doing it in a
library?
Reverse
discrimination is still discrimination, is it not? Or is it now the case, that,
similar to racial discrimination, every single heterosexual on Earth is deemed
to be helplessly bigoted, but no member of the LGBTQ community can be?
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