Word: lambda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...announcement and Powell's speech during the afternoon ceremonies were greeted with some vocal protest, but also with loud cheering. Brad B. Sears, a member of the Harvard Law School Lambda and the Commencement Pride Coalition, said he was satisfied with the response to Powell...
...military: harassment of straight colleagues, fondling or staring in the showers, nocturnal visits to unsuspecting bunkmates. "In every case I know of, someone told someone about a person's sexual orientation or that person was asked a question during a security clearance," says Kevin Cathcart, executive director of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a gay civil rights group. Sometimes the outings are coerced. Confronted by investigators, gays are often told to name names if they want an honorable rather than a general discharge...
Thompson's cause won widespread support from gay-rights groups, which want homosexual partners to enjoy legal rights comparable to those of married couples. The decision, says Paula Ettelbrick, attorney with the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund in New York City, a gay-rights group, "begins the process of recognizing that lesbian and gay couples share the kind of commitment that married couples...
...doesn't the campus media publish articles on the attributes of black fraternities and sororities? Maybe because they are too numerous to mention. Sharon E. Epperson '90 Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Lambda Upsilon Chapter
...debate points up a fundamental division that has burdened the gay-rights cause for decades. Notes Thomas Stoddard, executive director of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund and an adjunct professor of law at New York University: "The gay movement is actually based upon two principles that collide. One is privacy, and the other is disclosure, the process of coming out." Those focused on privacy are responding to society as it exists, with its emotional and sometimes physical perils for overt homosexuals. Those favoring disclosure are more concerned with society as they hope it may become, with tolerance...