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BGLTSA has had many positive effects on the Harvard community in the past. Its response to the homophobic attacks on Mather House resident tutor K. Kyriell Muhammad earlier this year was completely appropriate. The petition signed by Mather House residents to further gay awareness and understanding promoted the cause of the BGLTSA in a non-confrontational way that unified the straight and gay communities of Harvard...
When Mather House resident tutor K. Kyriell Muhammad was a victim of repeated acts of homophobic vandalism earlier this year, the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance (BGLTSA) contacted journalists at The New York Times and The Boston Globe...
Press coverage was all lined up when, as BGLTSA Co-Chair Michael K. T. Tan '01 recounts it, Muhammad pulled the plug, saying he didn't want his situation publicized nationally...
...loser's values had to be in the right place, but they also had to suggest that society's were in the wrong place. Muhammad Ali was stripped of his heavyweight title because he refused the draft, to protest the Vietnam War. He wasn't a hero to everyone, but people recognized the gesture...
Such an approach is not without its drawbacks, however. The reforms only passed with the concession that women, upon divorce, must return to their husbands any property they received at marriage--a proviso that was justified by the prophet Muhammad's decision to allow a woman to leave her marriage if she returned a garden she had been given by her husband. Moreover, men will retain the right to appeal a divorce indefinitely. Yet while such compromises may be undesirable from an purely egalitarian standpoint, it would be apt for those with a vested interest in change to realize that...