Word: lesbian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while sci-fi may never fully shed its dweeby image, the reality has evolved along with the rest of pop culture. Readers can choose from a wide array of subgenres, including Tolkienesque fantasy, high-tech cyberpunk, horror sci-fi, feminist sci-fi, techno-thriller sci-fi, gay and lesbian sci-fi and even sci-fi erotica. Readership and authorship have broadened too: women now account for a third of the science-fiction audience, compared with just 10% in the '50s, and such writers as Ursula Le Guin and Octavia E. Butler (one of sci-fi's few African-American authors...
...sooner had the two candidates recorded their opposition than Newt Gingrich, who has lately been making some Republicans nostalgic for that all too brief period when his policy was to remain in the background, said that if his half-sister, a lesbian, married another woman he would not attend the ceremony. In other words, he publicly turned down an invitation he hadn't been sent to a hypothetical event that could not, at this point, legally take place...
Thomas does manage to get attention, whether she's campaigning for Class Marshall, helping run the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Alliance (BGLSA), acting in "The Real Class of '96," or tearing up the rugby field. Sure, she's loud. But she's also generous, outrageous and funny. She's a great dancer, and she can make a mean mixed drink--in more ways than one. So many people know and like her, it's sometimes hard to have a meal with her, walk down the street with her--do anything with her--without pausing while at least three...
...stories like these (and others that wouldn't be appropriate to print) that have made Thomas famous at Harvard. She seems surprised that she has become someone that people talk about, but she also admits it's true. "Half the people think I'm a lesbian, half the people think I'm Ty Sheppard's girlfriend, and the other half think I'm really the Beaver Girl." In "The Real Class of '96" (a parody of the short-lived Fox drama "The Class Of '96," which she refers to as "the best idea that Paul D. Cabana '96 ever...
...Joshua L. Oppenheimer '97, the political chair of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian and Supporters' Alliance, said that keeping the ceremony on campus would be a "hurtful double standard," and that Harvard can and should affect change on a national level by expelling the ceremony...