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...Harvard announced that it had amended its policy.Both the co-ed rooming and the gender identity initiatives “were things that I worked on but by no means that I deserve all the credit for,” Kouskalis writes in an e-mail. The Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance pushed hard for the rooming reform, and the nine-year-old Trans Task Force lobbied for the “gender identity” clause.But his blockmate, UC President John S. Haddock ’07, says Kouskalis, in his first semester on the council, certainly...
...mailing list of around 75 when he started college in 1978. By 1981, it had grown to 300. “It became one of the largest groups on campus,” he says.The year saw Harvard’s second annual Gay and Lesbian Awareness Day, contributing to an increasing awareness of gay issues among the straight population.But minorities, says Robert O. Boorstin ’81, who was president of The Crimson in 1980, “were powerful out of all proportion to their numbers.”Recalling Schatz’s incredible prominence...
...child who learned to read at three, Scott recounts becoming immersed in thrillers while at the library. “From then on, I was pretty much hooked,” Scott says. Scott, a native of Little Rock, Ark., went on to become a pioneer of gay and lesbian fiction who has written 20 science fiction and fantasy novels so far.A consistent theme of Scott’s novels is how society defines a person, who gets to set the definition, and how people shape their mental landscape.Fellow science-fiction writer and close friend Susanna J. Sturgis says...
...constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage is scheduled for a vote in the Senate this week, and congressional Democrats are mostly downplaying the issue, saying the country has bigger problems to worry about. Dean, however, issued a proclamation saluting Pride Month for "lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals" and lionizing the early gay advocates who stood up for themselves in June 1969 at the Stonewall Inn. On Friday and Saturday, gay-rights messages took up much of the valuable real estate of the Democratic National Committee's home page, which warned Republicans, "Don't Trample on LGBT Americans for Partisan...
...coming out as gay easierif you have a mask and superheroic strength? Just ask Batwoman. DC Comics is making her a lesbian in a new serial. The goal: to increase DC characters' "overall diversity," says company veep Dan Didio. Batwoman is not alone in being a member of the League of Social Justice. A host of fictional heroes are emerging to fight for real-world causes...