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...Wilkins was fired from his job as supervisor at the Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer newspaper for daring to “come out” as a former homosexual. Lesbian Jackie Goldberg of the Los Angeles City Council passed a resolution condemning an ex-gay conference held in that city as “perpetuating fear and intolerance...
...Madison, Wisconsin, was charged with a hate crime because he insisted that homosexuals could change their sexual orientation as he had done. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors termed the activities of ex-gay ministries as “acts of discrimination.” The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Educational Network distributed the booklet “Just the Facts” to many of the public school districts in America accusing ex-gay participation in public schools as “harassment.” The Human Rights Campaign demanded that a contributor reconsider her sizeable donation...
...time. The deck is stacked against upstart disciplines, but this is especially true of the so-called “identity-based disciplines,” a range of new and not-so-new fields including women’s studies, Afro-American studies, ethnic studies, queer or lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) studies, Latino studies, Native American studies and disability studies...
...critical analysis of gender and sexuality is a topic that is potentially of great interest to all students, no matter how they define themselves. Such possibilities currently exist for students at other institutions: at Yale, for instance, a standing committee appointed by the provost organizes offerings in gay and lesbian studies; at the University of California, Berkeley, undergraduates can minor in LGBT studies. Harvard offers little in the way of courses or guidance for students with interests in the history and theory of sexuality...
...Undergraduate Council are constantly waging an uphill battle for positive public relations. Likely next on the new “joint” docket: ROTC, a road guaranteed to be rocky. During her campaign, Lee’s support for ROTC cost her the endorsement of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters’ Alliance. Summers has been quoted widely saying that academia needs to be more patriotic. With a groundswell of support for the war on terrorism—and alums like Caspar W. Weinberger ’38 taking up the cause—there?...