Word: lesbian
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...coalition meeting's 18-person guest list included a host of campus leaders, including the presidents of the Black Students Association (BSA) and the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), a co-chair of the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association (BGLSA), and the former chairs of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel and the Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Club...
Organizers said AFARM was formed last spring in response to AALARM's reaction to the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Awareness Day (BGLAD), when AALARM put up posters reading, "Don't BGLAD, be AALARMed...
...discussion, co-sponsored by the Bisexual, Gay, and Lesbian Students Association (BGLSA), the Black Students Association (BSA), and the Association of Black Radcliffe Women, attracted about 20 people to Currier House...
...times excessive, the p.c. and multicultural movements arose out of real concerns. Says Siby Philips, a senior at the University of Texas: "Multiculturalism came about because a lot of people are ignorant about people of color, gay and lesbian people, or whatever. These groups feel like they are marginalized. It's more than validation for certain groups. It's validation for the whole of society rather than just some part of it." Many distinguished scholars, however, see firsthand evidence that the p.c. and multicultural movements are leading to a more general separatism, a fragmentation of the centrist consensus that built...
...increasingly earmark jobs for Hispanics, Asians or other target groups. After the San Diego Opera was cited by a state arts agency for not having enough Hispanic employees, it set aside for only Hispanic candidates its next opening for a publicist. The September convention of the National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association turned into a recruitment center for major national media seeking to diversify newsrooms. Insiders say the National Book Awards and even the Pulitzer Prizes have at times bowed to political correctness rather than pure merit, seeking to honor blacks, Hispanics and women...