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This weekend marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus. The Crimson Editorial Board has taken this opportunity to compile a series of op-eds written by and about members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community at Harvard, past and present. The perspectives included in this series will cover a range of issues the LGBT community has faced, the progress that has been made, and the challenges that remain...
Editor's Note: This weekend marks the 25th anniversary of the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus. The Crimson Editorial Board has taken this opportunity to compile a series of op-eds written by and about members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community at Harvard, past and present.The perspectives included in this series will cover a range of issues the LGBT community has faced, the progress that has been made, and the challenges that remain...
...Despite these changes, what remains true about the experience of being gay in this country was just as true almost 40 years ago when our visible, political movement started with the Stonewall Riots at a little bar in Greenwich Village, as it is today. Being LGBT is socially sanctioned not simply because of who we choose to love, but because of the fact that in that act, we are flouting what certain heternomative values that tell us we must be as men and as women. I propose that the true and most noble goal of the movement for LGBT equality...
...Since 1982, when the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus was founded, the movement for gay rights has come a long way. For most of us who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) at Harvard, we can live openly and without fear in our jobs and as students. We can pursue both our degrees and employment with the protection of the law behind us, we can hold high positions of leadership and esteem, and we can even legally marry our sweethearts in Memorial Church. Although I wasn’t at Harvard in 1982, I understand that...
...June, Kevin Jennings ’85 was elected to be a Director of the Harvard Alumni Association and, as such, became only the second person in the university’s history to run for and win an HAA Directorship as an openly LGBT person...