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Letter: ?LGBTQ piece should have been in print

TO THE EDITOR:

I was pleased to see that The Daily Tar Heel published an issue dedicated to sex on Wednesday, but I was less pleased by the editorial decision not to publish the article on LGBTQIA student visibility in the paper itself, opting instead to host this article solely online.

While I understand the paper has limited publishing space, I can’t be the only one who noticed the irony in making an article about visibility, well, invisible. This is especially frustrating as the front page of the paper would have had ample space for this fine piece of reporting had it not been dominated by a three-quarter page image of an ostensibly heterosexual couple kissing.

By choosing to host the article online and not in the paper itself, you are perpetuating the very visibility issues and misconceptions that members of the LGBTQIA community struggle with every day and that your staff attempted to address in your article. How can we as a community understand ourselves and be understood by others if we’re not given the chance to be seen and heard in the most basic of forums? I expected much better from this paper and this university.

Emma Horesovsky

Class of ’10

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