Word: lesbian
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Once again, Harvard's Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Student Association has rallied to condemn the suggestion that there is any ethical consideration pertinent to the discussion of sexual behavior. And they have also made the philosophical leap that Mansfield is not only mistaken, but speaks out of "erroneous and harmful prejudice...
Members of the Coalition of Harvard Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Groups said last week that they will request a meeting with Rudenstine to ask for a public reaffirmation of University policy...
...wanted to have a visible presence with gay,lesbian, bisexual, and straight people showingopposition to Mansfield's words," he said. "Ithink this was accomplished...
...behalf of Harvard-Radcliffe's bisexual, gay, and lesbian community, we feel compelled to respond to Professor Harvey Mansfield's recent Evan v. Romer testimony, which branded gay practices as "shameful," gay love as inherently "imperfect and stunted and frustrated," and the presence of a gay community as "undermin [ing] civilization." Such statements are fully within his rights to make, since Professor Mansfield, like all Americans, is guaranteed freedom of speech by the First Amendment...
Furthermore, Mansfield's dismissal of bisexual, gay, and lesbian contributions to society is condescending and insulting. Gay students contribute to Mansfield's paycheck. More importantly, millions of lesbian, gay, and bisexual Americans vote, do their jobs well, and pay taxes. They are doctors, babysitters, writers, social workers and factory hands. Some hold public office, some serve in the military and some have given their lives for their country. Mansfield's derision of these citizens as having made no contribution to American society other than in the arts and in "undermining conformity" only reveals his own profound ignorance and rank insensitivity...