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...assembling the political machinery necessary, Schatz quickly learned he could not press GSA into service. "I knew if I wanted to be political, I had to be outside of GSA." So he founded GOOD and asked Gaye Williams '83, president of RLA, to serve as co-chair, making the start of gay and lesbian political unity...
Williams, who was out of town and unavailable for comment, is mentioned frequently with admiration by gays and lesbians at Harvard. "She is a one-woman network." Schatz says of Williams, who is also president of the Black Students Association. Williams pressured GOOD and GSA into considering feminist issues in meetings and into including a discussion of feminism and lesbianism at the GLAD days. Laurie Knight '83-2, a member of GSA and RLA, points out that this year for the first time GSA's membership is "approaching parity" between men and women. "Much of the huge torrent of activity...
...next battle was holding onto the GSA office and getting a gay hotline. The University announced the office was closed, because it wasn't being used, and only after several gay students demonstrated to the administration that it was indeed in use, were they allowed to keep the office--a basement room in Memorial Hall. Schatz also arranged a gay hotline after hearing that a large percentage of the phone calls that Room 13, the student counseling service, receives are related to gay concerns. The phone, with an extension on Schatz's room so he could...
Harvard students arrived in September to find in the Yard several "kiosks"--$40,000 tricornered stands for mounting posters--and a new rule banning posters elsewhere, the decision indirectly hurt the publicity efforts of GOOD and GSA, which need to put up twice as many posters as other student groups do, because anti-gay students rip down half of the gay notices. Restricting the posters to a few places seemed to guarantee that all GSA and GOOD posters would be removed. After protesting the decision without success. GSA decided to insert literature on GSA in student registration packets as several...
...homosexuality?" Unfortunately, Guillen was out of the country when the Faculty Council finally voted against the gay students' proposal. "I am very sorry it did not pass," Guillen says. "The students have my very serious sympathy. They are courageous, rational and right." Paul Perkovic '71, the alumni adviser to GSA, points out that the Faculty Council members who opposed the non-discrimination policy, as well as most older administrators and faculty, grew up in an era when it was easy to believe that homosexuality did not exist, because no gays were out, on campus or elsewhere. "The feeling within Faculty...