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Same-sex couples celebrated from San Diego to Sacramento on May 15, when the California Supreme Court announced its 4-3 decision to recognize same-sex marriage. As gay and lesbian couples hugged each other in the streets, the Court met with an outpouring of undeserved criticism from conservative and religious organizations. Despite this sentiment, California’s decision is a just one, upholding constitutional rights and creating equality throughout the state. The California Supreme Court cited both the constitutional right to marry and the right to equal protection under the law as reasons for expanding the definition...
...marriage between a man and a woman.” Much of the Harvard student body also received the news warmly. “I’m really excited,” said Michelle C. Kellaway ’10, co-chair of the Harvard-Radcliffe Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance. “I think that California and Massachusetts were the most obvious states to legalize marriage first, but the more steps we take just add to the momentum,” she said. Clayton W. Brooks III ’10, the administrative chair...
When Heather Gillman, a normally reserved junior at Ponce de Leon High School in the Florida Panhandle, found out that her openly lesbian cousin, a ninth grader, had been suspended, along with 10 other students, for expressing support of a lesbian senior who claimed to have been harassed, the straight 17-year-old was outraged. Gillman responded to the suspensions - and the claim that the students had committed "illegal organizing" - by wearing a rainbow T-shirt and her cousin's rainbow belt to school. But soon after, when the school board prohibited expressions supporting equal rights for gay people...
...legal victory was just the latest for increasingly visible gay and lesbian students (and their supportive straight friends) over the last decade. Gay straight alliances (GSAs) - extracurricular clubs that promote safety and tolerance in school - have grown from 200 in 1998 to more than 4,000 today. And students have won the right of GSAs to exist in more than a dozen court battles, even in relatively conservative regions like Salt Lake City, Utah and Orange County, Calif...
...Faust will follow in his footsteps by attending the commissioning ceremony on June 4, but she will also use the venue to speak out against the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that currently prevents openly gay and lesbian individuals from serving in the military. In an interview last week, Faust said that while she had not yet written her speech, she planned to say that she hoped “every Harvard student had the opportunity to serve in the military.”“That?...