Word: kwong
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...culmination of these efforts was a forum at Harvard last fall between the Stonewall Democrats and Log Cabin Republicans, the national-level gay contingencies of both major parties. The national chairs of each organization debated which presidential candidate was best for the LGBT community, the type of discussion Kwong says he feels needs to be had at Harvard. “I feel like being a gay Republican, and being open about it, I can help change views of the people around me.” Kwong says...
...Kwong is not afraid to break with either affiliation if he sees the need to do so—though he once edited the Harvard Salient, he later resigned from the publication and lambasted it in an editorial in The Harvard Crimson for being representative of a “fringe minority” of the conservative movement. [SEE CLARIFICATION BELOW...
...attempting to straddle these political lines, Kwong often raises the ire of those more firmly on either side. He says he gets “the most flack” from the gay community, though those more conservative than him have attacked his views as well...
...Apart from his political activities on campus, Kwong is also part of the Undergraduate Teacher Education Program, which certifies students to teach at public schools while still at the College through classes at the Graduate School of Education...
...Kwong spent a large portion of his junior year at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, where he taught a two-hour class every weekday and designed a curriculum on weekends, while writing his senior thesis...