Word: lesbian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lauralee Summer '98, the newly appointed co-chair of Harvard's Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) said yesterday that the organization is responding well to the pressures faced by its growth and its increased political clout on campus...
...youth like Legare and De Vries is sparking the newest battles in the decades-old brawl over gay rights, which at the local level is more focused than ever on schools. Groups like Legare's have formed in schools (mostly public ones) in 25 states, according to the Gay-Lesbian-Straight Education Network, an advocacy group based in New York City. The organization at one time primarily helped homosexual teachers; these days it employs a 19-year-old to coordinate the student groups, usually called Gay-Straight Alliances (heterosexual students are generally welcome). Executive director Kevin Jennings says just...
More broadly, according to Columbia University researcher Joyce Hunter, 3% to 10% of U.S. teens now tell pollsters they are gay, lesbian, bisexual or "questioning" their orientation; in the San Francisco Bay Area, the figure is 18%, according to one recent study. While reliable historical statistics don't exist, Hunter says few teens came out when she began examining gay youth in the early '70s. "The change has been enormous," she says. Lonely gay kids can find solace in two Webzines, dozens of online chat rooms and some 500 community support groups, usually run by social workers not affiliated with...
...gathering with other gay youths. Since school started, Legare says, he has heard "faggot" just once. Similarly, even at the Catholic school De Vries used to attend, several teachers applauded her for fighting antigay attitudes. She's now enrolled at a private school where everyone knows she's a lesbian...
Others aren't so lucky. According to a 1995 Massachusetts study, 62% of students identifying themselves as gay, lesbian or bisexual said they had been in a fight in the previous year, in contrast to 37% of all students. According to the Gay-Lesbian-Straight Network's Jennings, administrators often do little to stop the violence. Some of the stories are harrowing. Jamie Nabozny, who in the early '90s attended high school in Ashland, Wis., says he was kicked in the stomach so many times he required surgery. A group of boys also urinated on him. Robert McDonald...