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This weekend, Harvard Law School (HLS) will hold the first-ever reunion for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) graduates to commemorate the founding of the school’s first gay student group 25 years ago, known then as the Committee on Gay Legal Issues and today as HLS Lambda...
...lesbian graduates of HLS have influenced the profession in countless ways, taking leading positions in academia, the judiciary and public interest law, and proving to the world that openly gay people have as much of a place in the law as anyone. HLS’s gay alumni include two of the most prominent openly gay elected officials in the country; the nation’s first openly gay or lesbian federal judge; several of the nation’s top authorities on sexual orientation and the law; and many, if not most, of the leading courtroom advocates...
...this reunion is unusual in that many of the school’s gay and lesbian alumni have less than positive memories of their HLS experience. This I know first-hand. As part of an HLS project, I met with or interviewed by telephone about 85 of these GLBT graduates this past spring. I asked them what it was like to be gay at HLS when they were there, and whether they remembered their Harvard experience fondly. Some had graduated in the 1950s, before “being gay” meant anything to anyone. Others graduated just a couple...
...despite any indifference they may have experienced at HLS, upon graduation many of these gay and lesbian law students became out and proud lawyers and openly gay leaders in various legal fields. Moreover, many of the men and women who quickly broke barriers by being out on the job were fully closeted while at HLS, or only beginning to come out; others were not yet out even to themselves...
...message that it was okay to be openly gay in the recruiting process. As gay alumni began producing scholarship in the field of sexual orientation and the law, they created and built an academically respectable niche in which many students now work. Harvard’s gay and lesbian alumni have also affected the school in more tangible ways—by serving as members of its Alumni Association, its Visiting Committee and even of the University’s Board of Overseers...