The Queer Collective started in 1990 with a statement of purpose in the Word. We are tired of needing and trying to explain ourselves to non-Queer people. The Queer Collective ran a regular column in the Word throughout 1990. Following a Pink Triangles Week speaker in 1991, there was homophobic graffiti found on a poster advertising the event. Homophobia, racism, sexism, and other systems of hate disease our community.
Silence equals Death.
Action equals Life. Though some of the students received the demonstration well, many of the students who wrote in or were quoted in the Word thought that the demonstrators had chosen an inappropriate way to express themselves. The majority of opinions seemed to state that this type of tactic was found to be offensive and too confrontational. A year later, students found themselves in the midst of another controversy. In February of 1992, a radical queer newsletter entitled In and Out was left at Runyan Desk and distributed on all the tables in the dining hall.