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...these courses, nor does it provide financial support for ROTC programs. The College’s current Student Handbook outlines Harvard’s official stance on the issue, as well as its reasons for not recognizing the program. “Current federal policy of excluding known lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals from admission to ROTC or of discharging them from service is inconsistent with Harvard’s values as stated in its policy on discrimination,” the handbook states. But Mawn said that changes were needed to help people develop different attitudes on the issue...
...Last weekend should have been a time of celebration for Serbia's gay and lesbian community, the first time it's been able to hold a gay-pride parade in the capital since 2001. But the parade, scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 20, was abruptly cancelled at the last minute after police said they would not be able to protect participants from attacks by ultranationalist thugs. In addition to promoting gay rights, the parade was supposed to show that a decade after the end of the Balkan wars, Serbia is a functional democracy, ready to join the European Union. Instead...
...students—substantially more than the number who typically attend the club’s meetings, according to Garland, who termed the turnout “unprecedented.” Currently, Garland said, the group—which changed its name last semester from the Biseuxal, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance—has “anywhere between nine and 700 members,” depending who is counted: board members or people on the e-mail list. Attendees proposed different ways to involve more of Harvard’s queer community in the organization. While Garland...
Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons, the country’s first openly lesbian mayor, married her longtime partner Mattie B. Hayes Sunday...
...wedding was officiated by Reverend Irene Monroe, a black lesbian minister and close friend to both Simmons and Hayes...