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When Heather Gillman, a normally reserved junior at Ponce de Leon High School in the Florida Panhandle, found out that her openly lesbian cousin, a ninth grader, had been suspended, along with 10 other students, for expressing support of a lesbian senior who claimed to have been harassed, the straight 17-year-old was outraged. Gillman responded to the suspensions - and the claim that the students had committed "illegal organizing" - by wearing a rainbow T-shirt and her cousin's rainbow belt to school. But soon after, when the school board prohibited expressions supporting equal rights for gay people...
...legal victory was just the latest for increasingly visible gay and lesbian students (and their supportive straight friends) over the last decade. Gay straight alliances (GSAs) - extracurricular clubs that promote safety and tolerance in school - have grown from 200 in 1998 to more than 4,000 today. And students have won the right of GSAs to exist in more than a dozen court battles, even in relatively conservative regions like Salt Lake City, Utah and Orange County, Calif...
...Faust will follow in his footsteps by attending the commissioning ceremony on June 4, but she will also use the venue to speak out against the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that currently prevents openly gay and lesbian individuals from serving in the military. In an interview last week, Faust said that while she had not yet written her speech, she planned to say that she hoped “every Harvard student had the opportunity to serve in the military.”“That?...
...ROTC was expelled from the Harvard campus in 1969 and the University continues to oppose its presence on campus because of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which prevents gay and lesbian individuals from serving openly...
Five openly lesbian, gay, or transgendered politicians discussed the role that sexual orientation plays in their careers at a panel discussion in the Lowell JCR last night. At the open forum—organized by the Harvard College Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Political Coalition and co-sponsored by the Harvard BGLTSA and the Harvard College Democrats—most of the speakers agreed that sexual orientation should not define a politician. Nancy F. Korman, a lesbian who worked with openly gay Congressman Barney Frank ’61 for twelve years, said one’s sexual orientation...