Word: lesbian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard's apathetic reaction to this year's event is understandable. It may even be a function of the movement's past success. On National Coming Out Day, the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association (BGLSA) is simply preaching to the converted...
According to BGLSA President Royce Lin '96, "The purpose of Coming Out Day is to celebrate and encourage people to come out and be proud of themselves if they are bisexual, gay or lesbian." But how many homosexual Harvard students are still in the closet? Two? Three...
...Harvard, you don't need to devote a particular day of the year to pressuring individuals unsure of their sexual orientation to label themselves homosexual. Their peers, the campus press and numerous extracurriculars devoted to issues of sexuality are already pressuring the ambivalent to label themselves as gay or lesbian...
...some people, diversity has become a dirty word. White men fear that in its name they will lose their jobs and that Hillary Rodham Clinton herself will replace them with black, lesbian single mothers. Minorities worry that no matter how many degrees they have, their white colleagues may view them as underqualified beneficiaries of a quota. Bebe Moore Campbell's captivating new novel, Brothers and Sisters (Putnam; 476 pages; $22.95), takes the notion of diversity and scrapes away all the myths and fears with which it has become encrusted...
...Molinari, borough president of Staten Island -- a suburban, Republican stronghold in otherwise overwhelmingly Democratic New York City -- caused a statewide furor when he said yesterday on television that he didn't think Empire State voters would give the nod to Karen Burstein for attorney general because she was a lesbian. Today, in an interview with TIME Daily, he went further, suggesting that Burstein's lesbianism will have an effect on how she conducts herself as attorney general. Burstein, he claimed, might try to ease the restrictions on consensual sodomy and marriages between same sex partners. A Burstein campaign official called...