Word: bgltsa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Association (BGLTSA) recently withdrew its co-sponsorship of a panel discussion to be moderated by Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield...
...March 15 BGLTSA sent an e-mail message to its subscribers informing them that the organization had declined from publicizing a Kennedy School of Government (KSG) panel debate between Andrew Sullivan and William Kristol '73 on issues concerning virtue and conservatism, because of Mansfield's involvement in the program. Sullivan is openly gay and has previously spoken at Harvard about gay rights and the Republican Party...
...mail message said that by withdrawing support from the panel discussion, BGLTSA was not asserting a negative statement on gay conservatism or the discussion itself, but that it "did not feel comfortable signing onto a panel with Professor Harvey Mansfield...
...message also included quoted criticisms of the gay, lesbian and transgender lifestyle by Mansfield from a 1993 article in the Boston Globe. The message stated that Mansfield's comments conflicted with the mission of the BGLTSA...
...wake of a rash of hate crimes against gays--BGLTSA Co-Chair Adam A. Sofen '01 cited the October murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard in Wyoming, Alabama resident Billy Jack Gaither's violent death last month after being beaten with an axe handle, and last week's attack on a gay student at Tufts College leaving an off-campus party--Hildebran and Pars-Avila discussed their professional experiences with anti-gay violence...