Word: reeveses
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It was in his kindergarten classroom that newly re-elected Mayor of Cambridge Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 first knew he was gay. The room’s play area was divided: dolls for girls and teddy bears for boys. The young Reeves was frustrated when he was...
Reeves is the first gay African-American mayor in the nation, but this cursory description doesn’t quite do this hard-working community activist justice.
Reeves transferred to Harvard after his freshman year at Trinity College and remembers his first visit to the Harvard Square of the 1960’s, which back then was teeming with street musicians, Hare Krishna chanters, and “hippies with no shoes sitting on the ground.?...
And transferring, it seems, held good fortune. It was at Harvard that Reeves met the love of his life, his partner of 37 years, Gregory A. Johnson ’72.
“Many people think he looks like Superman,” Reeves says. At Harvard, Johnson was a handsome football player, the “least gay man you had ever seen,” Reeves says. It wasn’t love at first sight the night...