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...Goldfarb did not "come out" or begin any public pro-gay activity until after his tenure...
Besides as a tenure vote approaches, a junior faculty member has no time for activism. "You don't even have hobbies at that point," Goldfarb says. Also, he recalls, he was convinced he "could do a lot more as a senior professor" than as an non-tenured member of the Faculty...
...then, after the title "Professor of Philosophy" was securely before his name, that Goldfarb started organizational efforts and launched the activist phase of his life. With others, he began building a gay, bisexual and lesbian alumni group and slowly moved to strike against the prejudice students had complained about for years...
...eventually, "the moral arguments start adding up," he says. "Those moral arguments carry a lot of force." The revision passed in 1985, and Goldfarb became--and has since remained--a prominent campus figure...
Since 1985, things have changed, Goldfarb says. Today there are a number of openly gay faculty members, and they are beginning to organize around such issues as domestic partnership benefits, which the University recently granted to faculty and staff...