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...each of Goody's incarnations and in her hardscrabble past as the daughter of a drug-addicted, mixed-race petty criminal and a needy mother (a lesbian who lost the use of her arm in a motorbike crash - and no, that's not made up), Goody has been both icon and exponent of a wide strand of Englishness. Inadequately educated, a single parent to two boys, spilling out of nightclubs and ill-fitting dresses, she gave a human face to all those hand-wringing reports detailing Britain's stubborn social inequality and boozy irrepressibility. (See pictures of people drinking...
...verbal harassment and intimidation at Harvard. In the late 1980s, Harvard dining-hall workers fought to gain strong anti-discrimination language in their contracts. This progressive victory in the 1980s should have been enough to ensure that no Harvard student or employee is ever called, for instance, a lesbian in an insulting way without consequences for the offender. Yet clearly the language was not strong enough, and perhaps language itself is not even enough...
...mention why he decided to take on the case, or what his personal position was on the issue. Students had mixed reactions to Starr’s position on Proposition 8. Alexander A. Crohn, a member of Harvard of Lambda—the Law School’s gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender student group—said that Starr’s prominence may influence the outcome of the issue. “I respect how Ken Starr follows his beliefs,” Crohn, who is a third year law student, said. But he added that Ken Starr?...
Leadership from the Student Labor Action Movement and the Harvard-Radcliffe Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transsexual, and Supporters Alliance declared their support for the dining hall staff union’s efforts to strengthen the anti-discrimination language of their contract at an open meeting last night. The two student organizations also plan to campaign to broaden the scope of the university’s anti-discrimination policy to include all workers. Students met with four dining hall workers to prepare a reaction to allegedly anti-gay remarks made by a manager in a dining hall a few weeks ago. According...
...California Prop 8 Court Date Same-sex-marriage advocates rejoiced Feb. 2 after the California Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the Nov. 4 ballot measure that reversed the court's previous decision to grant gay and lesbian couples the right to wed; a record $83 million was raised by groups on both sides in the run-up to the vote. The March 5 hearing will also address the validity of 18,000 same-sex marriages that occurred before Prop 8 was passed...