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Article: Games, events at San Diego State U. raise 'queer' awareness
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- April 10, 2003
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Tracy Peterson
University Wire
04-10-2003
(The Daily Aztec) (U-WIRE) SAN DIEGO -- Out and proud. That is the theme for this year's Queer Awareness Week. San Diego State University's Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Student Union was in charge of the events.
The term "queer" is no longer meant to be a derogatory word, LGBTSU Executive Director Ben Cartwright said.
"It's a positive term," he said. "People are reclaiming it as a term of empowerment."
It is a word that encompasses all members, instead of saying lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
Queer Awareness Week kicked off Monday with the Big Gay Barbecue on the Scripps Cottage Patio. The barbecue had free food, prizes, a performance ...