Word: lesbian
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...council also dealt with some issues that came to the floor as a result of the efforts of under-represented groups: the council funded a rally supporting Faculty diversity and stood for the rights of lesbian and gay students to hold commitment ceremonies in Memorial Church. The Council encouraged the University to include "gender identity" and "mental illness" in its nondiscrimination clause. These issues, too, arose because of their relevance to the daily lives of council members. These are the kind of issues that hang in the balance between good intentions and the real thing. If this year's council...
...Dave Cassell was a struggling technical writer intoxicated by the potential of Net life. "I was bleary-eyed and buzzed about the future," he says. "I saw all of humanity coming online." Then one day our hero experienced some of that humanity, in an AOL chat room, where a lesbian and a Christian Fundamentalist were bashing each other. Cassell ended up disgusted--not by the name calling but by AOL's Victorian censorship policy, which resulted in a chat-room monitor summarily booting the lesbian for uttering the word bitch...
From there Paul apparently went on foot to the rue Chabannais, where his car was parked across the street from a bar called Champmesle. The Champmesle is a lesbian bar, where, despite his gender, Paul was a regular customer. The burly 41-year-old bachelor, a former French air-force officer and an amateur pilot, was a big teddy bear who brought flowers for the bar's regulars but otherwise left them alone. Josie, the bartender, knew him well. "He never drank much," she says, leaning on the bar under a garish mural of nude women. "I've known...
After public comment and an attempt to table the issue, the board voted 5-3 to pass a resolution extending domestic partner benefits to gay and lesbian faculty and staff members...
John Huebler, president of the Gay and Lesbian Faculty and Staff Association, said he believed tabling the issue would have been counterproductive...