Word: gay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deeply honored, then, when the College's first support group for lesbian and gay students surfaced in Adams and that the founders felt comfortable enough to ask him--a "straight and married" Catholic--to act as the adviser to the group...
Legislation opponents see the issue in terms of intolerance against gay students, claiming bill endorsers are implicitly turning a blind eye toward discrimination...
...push by some Harvard midshipmen to bring the program back to campus. She remembers talking about the discrimination issue with one of the students behind the campaign: "He said that the military shouldn't have to accept people who had something wrong with them, whether they were gay or had a leg missing, or whatever--his words...
...There weren't any openly gay people in ROTC to discriminate against, but the atmosphere was certainly homophobic," she adds, saying that among midshipmen, the word "fag" was considered to be the ultimate insult...
...would have made a better officer than any officer I knew on active duty," she says. "But because he was gay, he couldn't serve and the military lost out. The Navy could have benefitted by someone of his caliber...