Word: gay
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Driskell and Burton have been endorsed by the Radcliffe Union of Students, Black Students Association, Perspective, Students for Choice and Black Men's Forum. The ticket also has the support of outgoing council vice president Kamil E. Redmond '00 and King, Driskell's former running mate. The Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance also endorsed Burton...
...although the progressive Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance (BGLTSA) has endorsed Plants, he and Wikler are talking more about student services than hate-crime legislation...
Until 1994, when the Clinton Administration imposed the doctrine of "Don't ask, don't tell," gays had been barred, at least in theory, from military service. Under the new rules, endorsed by Congress, commanders cannot ask about a soldier's sexual orientation without specific evidence of homosexual conduct. And soldiers, regardless of their orientation, are to be permitted to serve as long as they keep their sex lives private. Yet the number of soldiers discharged for being gay has grown steadily since the policy began, from 156 in 1993 to 312 last year. Antigay harassment...
...first step is acknowledging that there is a problem. President Clinton did that Saturday when for the first time he allowed that his famous "Don't ask, don't tell" solution to the question of gays in the military wasn't working out as hoped. At this point, he may be the last person in America to have come to that conclusion. He was beaten to the punch, certainly, by two high-profile developments of recent days: His wife's coming out against the policy toward the end of last week, and the conviction of an Army private...
...with AIDS, but feel that's no longer enough, since advances in treatment mean that a decreasing proportion of HIV-infected individuals contract full-blown AIDS. Compiling a database of the infected makes it easier to track (and prevent) the spread of the disease. But HIV/AIDS, once considered the "gay plague," still carries a stigma, and that could scare many HIV-positive people away from putting their names in a database. They may not be reassured by the CDC recommendation that states make it a felony to release the names of HIV patients. "This is all part of a larger...