Word: lesbian
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...many minority students, identity politics means more than joining a certain club or taking a certain class. Ultimately, "identity politics is about who you are, and how much permission you have to be who you are," says Sheila C. Allen '93, former co-chair of the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association...
...other hand, examples of student groups' attempts to solicit the sympathies of the larger public abound. The Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association led the protests that followed the November 1991 edition of Peninsula. At an eat-in at the Union, the BGLSA exposed many members of the Class of '95 to homosexual activism for the first time...
Such statements sound odd coming from Allen, who is known as much for being an Adams House intellectual as for her activism in feminist and gay and lesbian causes...
...Certainly, my freshman and sophomore year, it was like I was the paradigm of the Harvard lesbian," she says...
...SOPHOMORE YEAR Sheila C. Allen was co-chair of the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association (BGLSA), co-director of Contact, a peer counseling group, and one of the founders of the feminist magazine...