Editor:

As a member of the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Association of the University of Arizona, I have some serious complaints about not only the coverage of our annual awareness week, but also subsequent publications that were made in response to the one and only blurb submitted about it. This blurb consisted of a photo of our so called "Dragfest" which was only a minute part of that week of awareness and was inappropriately published by your staff, regardless of its entertainment value.

Where were your photographers when we tabled on the Mall, or when we had a speakers panel to promote awareness, or at our movie night, or at the show by a guest comedian on Lesbian issues? Where were you when we were promoting awareness? Were you just planning to publish the little days events in the corner of your "On Campus" section and think we would not notice. I know that this is not the first complaint you have had about the coverage of that week, and, if I have anything to do about it, it will not be your last.

It is because of coverage such as what your publication has displayed and the ideas that it perpetuates, that people such as Andrew Higgins, have such a bad notion of BGALA and groups like it. We are an organization to offer people with a different outlook on life the chance to congregate with others like themselves, and to avoid the stigma which you have all attempted to so perpetuate. What frustrates me the most is that you have taken our week of awareness, which we present annually and made a mockery of it.

I hope that in the future, if you plan to make comments or to publish coverage of our events, you do so in a tasteful and tactful manner. It is not the event which was distasteful, Mr. Higgins, but the coverage that was presented. Next time you have such a statement to make, I might recommend that you examine the rest of the organization's functions, if you can even find them in the Wildcat, that is.

Hattie Sabia

Interdisciplinary studies senior

Hattie Sabia
interdisciplinary studies senior