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...projects for GLAAD is to complete their Announcing Equality campaign, which is aimed at creating a directory of newspapers nationwide that print same-sex wedding announcements. It aims to represent a way for BGLT people to share their unions—and for people to know more about the families that share their community. My job is to call up papers from Arkansas to California and ask about their policies. At first, I was skeptical calling papers in some of the states. It didn’t seem to make much sense to try and explain why it was important...
...campus as arguably liberal as Harvard’s, it’s easy to dismiss claims of homophobia or heterosexism as outmoded or inane. After all, a quick glance at the Gaypril calendar shows bisexual/gay/lesbian/transgender (BGLT) lawyers lecturing on marriage rights, training by AIDS activists, a massive dance, the Day of Silence, a sex toy party and a film screening on transgender bathroom access—hardly the furtive plottings of an oppressed minority. But homophobia is still a massive problem on both sides of Johnston Gate, and this is precisely why yesterday’s anti-homophobia speak...
Though Harvard voices a strong commitment to BGLT students, a number of important policies are rarely debated in a larger campus context. For transgender students—and often, queer students in general—basic issues of bathroom access and housing policy are a bureaucratic nightmare each and every day. When you can be arrested for going in a bathroom that doesn’t match the sex on your birth certificate or you’re paired with a roommate who urges you to “turn straight,” your best bet is often...
Joshua A. Barro ’05 questioned whether the training for these new positions would be more extensive than Sexual Assault Sexual Harassment (SASH) or Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian and Transgender (BGLT) tutors...
...seems a wellness tutor would require more training than a SASH or BGLT tutor,” Barro said. “I feel like we should wait to have that information before voting...