Word: lgbt
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...Dining Hall, Clayton W. Brooks III ’10 seems as if he’s on his feet, preaching from a pulpit in a low-pitched lightly-southern drawl that drifts toward the rafters. Brooks is the Administrative Chair of the Harvard College Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Political Coalition, which he helped found last year. Called simply “The Coalition” within the gay community, the focus of Brooks’ organization, unlike BGLTSA, is strictly political.Yet unlike many members of “The Coalition” who were out and politically active...
...hearts and minds of millions of Americans will not be changed by back-door negotiating and the swipe of a president’s pen. Jacob P. Reitan, a prominent LGBT activist and current student at Harvard Divinity School, expressed disappointment in the state of LGBT activism precisely for this reason. “The LGBT community is very weak on raw action,” he said. “We lobby Congress, work on getting votes for legislative decisions, but we rarely take to the streets to convince people of our rights.” He asked...
...Bill Clinton, who Toni Morrison could have also called the “first gay president” because of his outreach to LGBT people in 1992, stepped away from his campaign promise to undo “don’t ask, don’t tell” as soon as he became president-elect in the face of a wave of opposition that startled him. Would a sitting Democratic president risk mobilizing the Right in 2012 by stepping out on a limb for LGBT rights...
...only way that a Democratic president will take that risk is if people concerned with LGBT issues give him or her a reason to. It’s simply too much to ask of politicians to “just do it.” Although Senator Clinton might disagree, Lyndon Johnson did not step in front of a segregationist truck for the Civil Rights Act in 1964; he jumped on a much bigger truck, driven by the people of the Civil Rights Movement, that was barreling through its opposition...
...blame Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for not waving the LGBT flag during this primary? No. I can point fingers at myself, however, and everyone else who intellectually supports LGBT rights but has yet to take up Reitan’s call to action (which is so movingly portrayed in the new movie, “For the Bible Tells Me So”). Much of the country has made remarkable progress over the past 20 years in its treatment of LGBT people, but we are far from any finish line. McCarthy described the situation perfectly...