Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rise of gay and lesbian studies centers at Yale University and the City University of New York and the gathering of the first academic conference on homosexual issues, held last weekend in New Haven, signal a new era for homosexual scholarship, university activists at both schools said this week...
...Yale Gay-Lesbian Studies Center, which sponsored last weekend's conference is one of several college-based gay activist groups attempting to introduce homosexuality as a legitimate approach to academic study, similar to the way feminists have introduced women's studies, said Yale Professor of History John Boswell...
Founded by Boswell, the Yale center, which does not have any official university affiliation, consists of about 30 students, faculty and community members. The purpose of the center's conference was "to determine and define exactly what gay-lesbian issues are," Boswell said...
More than 200 people attended presentations in which 40 scholars and authors presented papers and conducted discussions covering aspects of the biology, sociology and history of homosexuality, homosexual art and literature, AIDS, and the problems faced by gay minorities...
...Gay Seidman '78, an Overseer and formerpresident of the Crimson, is writing adissertation in sociology at the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley, comparing labor movementsin South Africa and Brazil. She is grateful toGarth, Megan and Gavin for pointing outHuntington's contributions in South Africa.PhotoThemba NkosiSouth African workers in Durban in December,1985 celebrating the creation of a new democraticmovement, the Congress of South African TradeUnions...