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Neighboring residents have mobilized to protest the plan in order to protect their neighborhood that was constructed during the Garden City Movement...
...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...
...legal marriage and the ability to join the military without being hidden, a commitment to gender liberation is the goal that asks more of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals. It asks more than many of us are currently doing to support the full participation of transgender people in the movement. It asks more than we are currently doing to consider their rights and freedoms as important as the desire to be able to partner with people of the same gender. It asks—it demands—more than the organizations that lead the gay rights movement must start...
...humane if true gender liberation were to take root. Only when gender isn’t presumed or enforced, by peers or others, will we know that we have achieved this goal. Until then, there’s more work to do. There’s more for our movement to consider, more people’s concerns to include, more to stand up about, and fight for. There’s more for us to become...