Word: bglts
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...Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) awarded its first-ever BGLTS Person of the Year Award yesterday evening to Colonel Margrethe Cammermeyer (Ret.), a 31-year veteran of the National Guard...
Cammermeyer was brought to Harvard in part by the efforts of Rachel K. Popkin ’08, a member of the BGLTSA and co-chair of the BGLTS Person of the Year Award Committee. Popkin’s high school Gay-Straight Alliance faculty adviser knew Cammermeyer, and put them in touch...
...month-long string of political and social events run by the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) for evidence of this. ROTC is banned from campus. Gay students, on the other hand, have a vast wealth of resources at their disposal—BGLTS tutors are in nearly every House, weekly support groups meet in throngs and many rooms in a good deal of dorms has a “safe space” sticker on it. Even in conservative circles, gay students are welcomed with open arms. All of these accomplishments have made the gay rights agenda...
Prompted by the students’ allegations, House Masters Robert and Ann Porter immediately took the important—and overdue—step of appointing two resident bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender and supporters (BGLTS ) tutors. They should be applauded for responding rapidly to the students’ allegations. The masters of Cabot House, now the only House lacking in-house BGLTS tutors, should swiftly follow suit...
...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?...