I am responding to Greg West's comparison of Pride Week and shutting down the proposed Hooters downtown. First, I consider myself a feminist and a capitalist, and I am very involved in LGBTA issues. I do not agree with the restaurant being forced to close. He states that he does not understand how groups that promote programs like Sex Faire and Safer Sex Cabaret can also protest Hooters. He is offended by the chance of losing funding because of these programs and annoyed that the gay community is allowed a drag ball and the heterosexual community denied a Hooters.

I do not think he understands what Pride Week is about. We are trying to increase people's awareness of the existence of the LGBTA community and praise it through a series of fun programs. Hooters is a business out to make money using food served by scantily clad busty women. He states that the Pride Week programs would be all right if "hungry, heterosexual males could have the things they wanted as well." Each day is a celebration of "hungry heterosexual males." Turn on the TV, look at advertisements, look at the perfect bodies and cup sizes of women in the movies, and look at the girls going to parties on a weekend night — it is all directed towards heterosexuals, especially men. He probably cannot see the hardships the LGBTA community goes through on a daily basis, and it is this ignorance that proves we need a Pride Week on campus.