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...being gay has become more socially acceptable, coming out parties for bisexual, gay, lesbian and transgender (BGLT) students have become popular at colleges across the nation. Yet for many students, coming out remains a painfully private process. Residential Houses at Harvard ought to be refuges for students—welcoming and accepting homes where students feel comfortable just being themselves. But recent revelations about Dunster House have sadly suggested that some House communities are falling significantly short of that ideal...
According to an e-mail sent over the Dunster open-list, Dunster has suffered lately from an “exceptionally homophobic” atmosphere, punctuated by incidents of discrimination and harassment. Some students have pointed to anecdotal evidence of many BGLT students transferring to other, more hospitable Houses
Like BGLTS tutors in other houses, the new tutors in Dunster—Mafalda Cardim and Daniel Sargent—will serve primarily as valuable resources for students troubled by or interested in their sexual identities. BGLT students, especially those just beginning to question their sexual orientation, may struggle with coming out, same-sex dating and relations with heterosexual roommates. As BGLTS tutors, Cardim and Sargent can help students sort out problems related to sexuality by providing counseling and information—as well as referring students to social support groups on and off campus. Unlike Dunster?...
Geschlect said that although “some of it is just perception, much of it is very real...partially because there were no BGLTS tutors, and because many students see the Porters as more conservative and so that they don’t like BGLT students,” said Geschlect...
...Dunster’s non-resident BGLTS tutors, Michael Katherine Haynie ’00, said the House needed a in-house tutor to support BGLT students...