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Harvard admissions officials joined counterparts from nearly 30 other colleges yesterday at a gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender (GLBT) friendly college fair designed to encourage dialogue with prospective applicants about GLBT issues on campuses...
...hosted by Campus Pride and Friends of GLBT Youth and held in the great hall of the Massachusetts State House, the fair drew high school students, guidance counselors, and parents from across the Northeast region...
...According to Jeffrey M. Walker, the mayor’s chief of staff and a member of the city’s GLBT commission, the initial plan was simply to ignore the protest. Later, after realizing that many Cambridge residents were going to plan their own protests, city leaders decided to act as the unofficial coordinators of the counter-protest for safety reasons...
...Christopher M. Mason, a Cambridge GLBT commissioner who organizes Phelps-a-thon fundraisers—named after WBC leader Fred Phelps—to raise money for every minute that the WBC is holding a protest, said that the WBC encourages unprecedented unity among its opponents...
...MacNeely, co-organizer of the event, expressing his view that gay marriage would be legal nationwide in two to four years. While gathered near Out of Town News in Harvard Square after the City Hall rally, Christopher M. Mason, co-organizer of the rally and member of the Cambridge GLBT commission, stirred up memories of the Obama campaign when he and the crowd began chanting, “Yes We Can!” In addition to protesting Proposition 8, the rally was intended to promote the passage of the Massachusetts Transgender Civil Rights bill—scheduled...