Word: lambda
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...weekend, Harvard Law School (HLS) will hold the first-ever reunion for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) graduates to commemorate the founding of the school’s first gay student group 25 years ago, known then as the Committee on Gay Legal Issues and today as HLS Lambda...
...1980s and 1990s, students found the school’s entrenched elitism and indifference counterproductive and were frustrated when they attempted to draw more attention to their issues and concerns. Although the school’s culture is changing, much of that legacy of indifference remains today, and Lambda continues the struggle to educate faculty and students on GLBT concerns...
...Gamma Lambda Mu is hoping to affiliate with Delta Lambda Phi, the national parent gay fraternity in Washington, which advises its chapters on how to offer peer counseling, AIDS education and access to online resources for gay men. But first Gamma Lambda Mu must win the approval of F.I.U.'S interfraternity council when it votes on the new fraternity's charter application. The school's president, Modesto Maidique, backs the move, as does the head of the interfraternity council. Yet starting up a gay frat at a school where most students are Latino, a culture in which the mystique...
That isolation, Gamma men say, makes having a gay fraternity--a surrogate family and support group in which their sexuality is accepted--even more essential. "I never had any gay friends growing up," says a shy F.I.U. student whose family rejected him after he came out. Gamma Lambda Mu, he says, "is a different and very positive experience for me." Out on Fraternity Row's Windmeyer suggests that such groups can serve as a defense against the kind of hate crime that struck Matthew Shepard, the gay University of Wyoming student who was beaten to death off campus...
...though, the 28 men of Gamma Lambda Mu have more immediate concerns. Gay frats still have to work to "give the impression that we are just another organization," says Casas. Even so, the Gamma men are aware of their differences and have a sense of humor about them. The slogan the group has printed on its T shirts reads LET'S GIVE 'EM SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT...