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With so many supports in place, I felt Harvard’s ultra-tolerant environment should render such a defense mechanism unnecessary. During the first weeks of freshman year, I met my gay academic adviser, my two lesbian proctors and my gay assistant dean of freshmen. The gay dances and gay social events were a far cry from the hostile halls of my high school. To me Harvard was a homosexual heaven—there were seven other gay students in my dorm alone...
...matters of her sexual orientation, she has remained coy. There was that moment last year when she dedicated her Daytime Emmy Award to Kelli, which is not the name of any of her three adopted children. And last week she guest-starred on Will & Grace playing a lesbian. But with the publication in April of her autobiography, Find Me, O'Donnell walks right up to making her orientation clear. A publicist at Warner Books confirms that O'Donnell ruminates on her romantic relationships with women but says the issue of O'Donnell's sexuality takes up only a small portion...
...envisioned by the founders of the Mormon church produces spike-haired, nihilistic punks (depicted in the movie SLC Punk!), black-clad goths and the highest rate of Prozac consumption in the country. Despite the strong antipathy of the Mormon church to homosexuality, Salt Lake City has an internationally known lesbian underground scene...
Extremes create extremes. Jackie Biskupski, a state legislator and prominent member of the local gay community, says the gay scene has become so visible "partly out of need. The community here can be so oppressive, it almost creates the need for a thriving gay and lesbian community." Outsiders visiting Utah are frequently shocked by the degree of anti-Mormon sentiment that is expressed in conversation by non-Mormons, often quite openly. "People say things about Mormons that they wouldn't dream of saying about blacks or Hispanics or Jews or whatever," says Zimmerman...
Students at the meeting felt that in addition to a list of courses, a list of professors with interests in the field who could serve as potential thesis advisors would also be helpful. Such lists could be easily made available over the Internet by the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters’ Alliance and other students groups on campus...