Word: queerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...openly gay University of Wyoming student. In reality, Harvard-affiliated attendees at the memorial vigil included students and faculty members from the Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Law School and the Harvard Divinity School, many of whom are dedicated delegates to the Harvard Queer Leadership Network, a university-wide organizing body. Indeed, in researching this article, Wasserman called one of our delegates and was told that there had been a Harvard presence at the vigil...
...writers are leaders of queer organizations at the College and several Harvard graduate schools. JARVIS T. CHEN, School of Public Health NICOLE LYN DEBLOSI '99 SARAH L. DUNCAN '84, Co-chair, Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus RACHEL KRAMER '99 KARA LEWIS, Divinity School RAFAEL MANDELMAN, Kennedy School of Govt. SHARON MCGOWAN, LAW School...
...scruffy radicalism of the old gay-liberation movement. But after 25 years, it still has virtually no lobbying presence on Capitol Hill. In the later 1980s the AIDS epidemic brought forth the street-theater militancy of ACT UP and in 1990 the in-your-face tribalism of Queer Nation. "We here, we're queer, get used to it" was an interesting statement of the facts. But the cutting edge of gay politics threatened to cut gays off altogether from the give and take of lawmaking...
...Queer Protests Ineffective" by Patrick C. Crosetto (Letter, Oct. 19): Crosetto incorrectly characterizes both homosexuals and the gay rights movement. He states, in reference to proposed national "hate crime" legislation, that "no one group should be given special privileges." Granting homosexuals the right to hold a job is not a special privilege. Granting homosexuals the right to marry is not a special privilege. Granting homosexuals the right to visit their terminally ill partners in the hospital is not a special privilege. Granting homosexuals the right to a life free of discrimination is hardly a special privilege...
...fact that the only time this country seems to take notice of the discrimination gay people face is when a tragedy like this occurs is, in my opinion, a tragedy in itself," said Seth J. Persily, former co-chair of Lambda, an organization of queer students at the Law School...