Tonight, between the hours of ten and two, after most of the visiting parents are snug in their hotel rooms and the International Roundtable discussions have long since subsided, the Field House will be rocked to its foundations by the triumphant return of the Queer Union dance.
Men dress in drag, women dress in very little indeed.
They bump, they grind, they drink, they hook up. And that's how it went until last spring. In early April, QU decided to put a temporary moratorium on the dance after hearing complaints, both from within its organization and from other students, that it had ceased to be a safe space for students of all sexual orientations. Now, after its brief sabbatical, the QU dance has returned, and the QU's leaders think that it will be much better. Current QU chair Kristin Thompson '01 said that the cancellation was effective, in part, because it was announced around the same time that QU sponsored a campus-wide Day of Silence.