Word: gay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...policies, which Cambridge officials admit are still evolving, are coming under increasing attack by medical authorities and gay activists for being unnecessary, if not discriminatory...
...Several gay activists claim that policies like the one adopted by Cambridge are discriminatory, creating a special category for employees with AIDS and a panel to review their right to work. The guidelines, they say, violate city and state civil rights laws which forbid discrimination on the basis of handicap...
Notargiacomo said Brown Health Education Director Toby Simon came to the unit meeting to alleviate students' fears about health risks involved with housing the visiting gay students. She guaranteed that there was no real threat of contracting AIDS from the guests, Notargiacomo said...
Other students had different reasons to oppose housing the gay guests. "It's something I'd rather not see. It turns me off to see guys holding hands," one student told the Herald...
...feels we've trampled on his beliefs," Notargiacomo explained. "I was amazed." Notargiacomo added that one of his resident counselors, a born-again Christian, was also opposed to hosting a group of gay students...