Gay Jeans Day Tartan Editorial

Selected Quotes

"...cmuOUT must be hoping to get as many people as possible thinking. This, it seems, is a bit underhanded and may be ineffectual."

"Does support of the homosexual lifestyle mean acceptance of same-sex marriages?"

"When the issue at hand is as broad as 'support,' people should not be forced into taking a stance and that is exactly what Gay Jeans Day does."

"To force the entire student body to take a stand for or against gay and lesbian lifestyles is quite different from supplying interested parties with a means to voice their opinions."

"...do not let an issue as important as this one be reduced to a matter as superficial as wardrobe."

(Quotes are from the editorial in the "Forum" column of The Tartan, 21 October 1996, p. 6. The Tartan is a student newspaper at Carnegie Mellon University.)