Word: lgbt
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...This year marked the 38th LGBT pride celebration for the city, and it came on the heels of a landmark decision by the California Supreme Court to allow gay couples to marry. However, the decision may be short-lived as opponents have introduced legislation to ban gay marriage through a constitutional amendment, which voters will consider in November...
Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus Annual Commencement Dinner. Cocktails at 5, followed by dinner and guest speaker Brian Graden, M.B.A. ’89, president of Entertainment, MTV Networks Music Group, and Logo, MTV’s LGBT network. Lowell House. Reservations required for the dinner. For further details, visit http://hglc.org/dinner.html.
When Harvard College LGBT Political Coalition administrative chair Clayton W. Brooks III ’10 was 16, he said he wanted to show support for his country by serving in the U.S. Naval Academy. But he said he would not enlist as anything other than a gay man, and so a military policy barring openly homosexual or bisexual recruits kept him away. “I wouldn’t be able to be completely honest about such an important part of who I am,” he said. “I’m prevented from...
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...
...Harvard College Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Political Coalition. But Brooks also expressed his desire for more sweeping changes in the relationship between the military and the gay community. “We hope to one day see [Faust] speak at the ROTC commissioning service in which openly LGBT students can also participate,” he said. —Staff writer Athena Y. Jiang can be reached at ajiang@fas.harvard.edu...