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Peninsula Targets Homosexuality

Staffers Defend Publication as Students Express Outrage

Murray's article also alleges that members of some radical homosexual advocacy groups have "carried out a campaign of lies and half-truths...to benefit their political agenda."

"We don't want to [say] that all homosexuals are trying to [deceive]," said Landry. "But a small minority in the homosexual movement are trying to use AIDS...to make homosexuals appear to be victims and to remove the responsibility."

Help Groups

Other articles in the issue include "The Genesis of Homosexuality," "Ignorance=Fear" and "The Courage to Change." The magazine features a diagram charting "Possible Pathways to a Homosexual Orientation" and a list of "help groups" for homosexuals.

But while the magazine was a topic of conversation in dining halls, class sections and dorm rooms all over campus yesterday, some students said they just didn't take it very seriously.

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"My roommates and I just skimmed right through it, and we basically just laughed at it all the way," said Jon K. Hsu '94.

Janet A. Viggiani, the College's assistant dean for co-education, could not be reached for comment yesterday.

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