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...women, now juniors, have been together since their freshman year, when Chinn says she came to terms with her sexuality. The two met during Gay and Lesbian Awareness Days (GLAD) week in the spring of their freshman year and started going out immediately afterwards. Now Chinn is co-coordinator of the Gay and Lesbian Co-op, and Franklin is co-coordinator of Yalesbians...
...Chinn and Franklin, who live off-campus with two other women, one of whom is straight, say that gay jokes are not common in public at Yale, but within students' own groups of friends degrading homosexuals is more acceptable...
...There is homophobia at Yale, as there is everywhere," says Chinn, a member of the rugby team. "Each peer group has different standards of what's acceptable and what isn't. In general, people are more respectful...
...Said Chinn to the gawking freshmen: "It's really okay. We're only dykes...
...People feel like we're public property and they have the right to say anything," says Franklin. And occasionally, they say, the harassment takes violent forms, like the time a group of men surrounded Chinn on the street, shouting and blocking...