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...revoke Department of Defense research contracts and grants to schools that bar military recruiters from campus. Initially, the law had little effect, since colleges, law schools, and business schools received precious little in the way of military research grants and could sacrifice funding to protect their gay and lesbian students. Over the years, subsequent amendments and interpretations have expanded the scope of the Solomon Amendment, and now all federal funding can be revoked from an entire university if recruiters are banned from one of its individual schools. During the summer of 2005, Harvard was informed that over $400 million...
...tell” policy.At a rally in front of HLS’ Harkness Commons, students joined Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz and two military veterans to call for more backing from University President Lawrence H. Summers in efforts to repeal the policy, which prevents gay men and lesbians from serving openly in the armed forces.In a speech to the crowd, Dershowitz reprimanded the University for not doing more to combat the policy. Military recruiters had been banned from the HLS Office of Career Services until last month, when the school announced it would once again grant the military...
...other students on their way to class. “The goals of Coming Out Day at Harvard are to increase visibility and to increase awareness,” said Joshua D. Smith ’08, the political chair of Harvard’s Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters’ Alliance (BGLTSA). BGLTSA board members covered the table with information packets, rainbow ribbons, and two posters—one for BGLT students to sign, titled “Out and Proud,” and one for allies to sign, titled “We support...
...first organized student response to Harvard Law School’s decision last month to cooperate with military recruiters, members of a gay and lesbian student group will stage a sit-in and rally today to protest the renewed presence of Pentagon officials on the school’s campus.At the event—scheduled for noon today—protesters will call on the University to utilize its financial resources and political clout to aid in overturning the military’s controversial “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy...
...think that there are a lot of gay and lesbian couples who are just not interested in marriage. There are also a lot of gay and lesbian couples like my partner and me who are ambivalent-still, I call him my boyfriend. (Laughs.) My son is always correcting me-"No, he's your husband!" He's more comfortable with the idea now than we are. There's this sense that these are borrowed garments we're wearing right now. All cultures create their own marriage rituals and symbols. I don't think gays and lesbians have had enough time with...