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...illegal to discriminate against gay people in housing and in the workplace. The same day, Cleveland's city council passed a law guaranteeing the Gay Games $2 million in cash and in-kind contributions. "The city of Cleveland is prepared to roll out the welcome mat to the LGBT athletes, their families and spectators from around the world," Cleveland Mayor Frank G. Jackson said in a press release...
...Queer Students Association was one of the groups that benefitted from the travel grants. According to QSA co-chair Marco Chan ’11, the grant covered travel expenses for himself and two other board members to travel to New York for a conference with Ivy League LGBT leaders...
...desires of the gay community. A California native and the son of a Southern Baptist minister, Choi got his start in the military as an Arabic and environmental engineering major at West Point, where he received his degree in 2003. Choi later helped found Knights Out, an LGBT support group for West Point graduates. Choi served as an Arabic linguist in Iraq in 2006 and 2007 before transferring to the New York National Guard in June 2008. Harvard Humanist Chaplain Greg M. Epstein said he hoped Harvard students would pay attention to the “selflessness” Choi...
...data that would show which treatments and drugs work best (and, presumably, therefore are most worth paying for). Many of what turned out to be breakthrough AIDS drugs did not look that way when they were first tried, said Rebecca Fox, executive director of the National Coalition for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) Health. "There needs to be time to show that these things are effective - especially for populations that aren't used to getting research funds...
Though Harvard may be the first University to officially have an endowed professorship in LGBT studies, AIDS activist Larry Kramer offered an endowed chair in gay studies to Yale in the late 1990s—an offer Yale rejected, instead later accepting money from Kramer’s brother to help fund a gay and lesbian studies program...