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...Pittman said the journal initially had trouble procuring funding due to a dispute over the appropriateness of the term. (The journal eventually garnered funding from the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus, the Ann Radcliffe Trust, the Harvard Foundation and the Undergraduate Council...
...hope to further an understanding of what queer people share in common, if anything,” they wrote. “[Many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and queer (LGBTQ) people] seek to claim the menacing nature of the term and redeploy its power for their own program...
...journal’s first issue arrives at a cultural moment of increased gay and lesbian presence on television and in the media, as well as highly contentious debates about gay marriage...
Though the board of queer. features three board members from the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgendered and Supporters Alliance’s (BGLTSA), including BGLTSA co-chair Margaret C.D. Barusch ’06, the two entities are independent...
...Evan Wolfson. He first wrote about marriage for same-sex couples in 1983, in a Harvard Law School paper. After graduation, he spent 10 years pressing the marriage issue. Fellow gay activists shushed him. "For years," says Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, "many of us were saying to him, 'We're not ready. The country's not ready. And, by the way, you're crazy...