Word: lesbian
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EAST LANSING, Mich. -- The long-divisive issue of whether to grant families of Michigan State University's gay and lesbian employees health and other benefits came to a relatively quiet end Friday, following a decision by the MSU Board of Trustees...
...golden ring on the same hand as my Harvard class ring, but I-and people like me-am beaten up, denied housing, and discriminated against by employers. In Georgia earlier this summer, the State Attorney General Michael Bowers revoked a job offer when his potential employee revealed her recent lesbian commitment ceremony. Symbolic marriage offers no protection from discrimination. In recent years, numerous referenda have come to ballot to legalize discrimination against lesbians and gay men in such states as Maine, Oregon and Colorado. According to the Anti-Violence Project, anti-lesbian and gay violence-bashing, violent attacks, shootings...
...able to marry in Memorial Church, but an academic department of Lesbian and Gay Studies remains a fantasy, a full-fledged student center for gay and lesbian students a distant dream. In the dormitories, a homophobic student scribbles "faggot" on the wall, as occurred in Dunster House this past spring. When Angels in America playwright Larry Kramer offered millions of dollars to Yale University, his alma mater, for the creation of a professorship of Lesbian and Gay Studies, it was denied. When students at Harvard agitated for a University-sponsored lesbian and gay student center, we were offered a tiny...
...discrimination, as they are excluded from the University non-discrimination policy. Nationally, we are fighting for the freedom of sexual expression in a country where anti-sodomy laws are still on the books in many states. When we regard symbolic marriage in the context of the larger picture of lesbian and gay issues, we begin to see that marriage is not a radical agenda at all. When and if I stop worrying about job and housing discrimination and anti-lesbian and gay violence, then and only then will I consider concerning myself with symbolic marriage...
Diana Adair '98 is the Undergraduate Council Executive Director of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Issues...