Word: gay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must cope with strained relations with both the House and the Senate. His relationship with Bulger has been strained over Shannon's call for a renewed federal investigation of the 75 State St. estate deal and over Shannon's prosecution of court officers for their conduct in a gay rights demonstration...
...Buckley's friend had been a woman, it is doubtful that she would have pressed sexual harassment charges and been awarded the support that he is now getting--and if the gay student involved had been a woman rather than a man, I doubt further that anyone would have said anything at all. The reaction to the approaches of the gay student were thus contingent on both students being male. And this reaction is what Defeat Homophobia and the BGLSA are taking about. The issue with this reaction is homophobia...
...people get very defensive when charged with being anything other than completely tolerant, but this self-conception simply is not very realistic. We have all grown up in the same world, which tries to to teach us very intolerant values. We have all swallowed homophobic attitudes: straight, bi and gay alike. It is fruitless to waste energy sidetracking the issue to defend our egos to each other; we must take what we have and make it better. There is no use for complacency here, only improvement. Elizabeth Flax...
...just because students choose topics that are out of the ordinary, it doesn't mean they don't want their research taken seriously. Will P. Meyerhofer '89, who is writing his thesis on "Three Early American Gay Novels," says he "hopes more people will do theses on gay topics...
...open forum provided by the Mather House masters and reactions such as "Harvard Faggots Die" written on a blackboard in Mather late at night. I became even more interested when many students at Mather began to display pink triangles in their windows to show support for the bisexual, gay and lesbian community, and I hoped to use the energy of the discussion at Mather as momentum to create a campus-wide dialogue on the rights of bisexual, gay and lesbian students...