Word: reuniones
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...terribly strange to be 61 ... and on only your first post--cold war reunion tour. Mellowed folk rockers PAUL SIMON and ART GARFUNKEL, whose chilly friendship had kept them from riding the baby-boomer nostalgia wave to its lucrative peak, told a news conference last week that they would finally reunite for a 36-city concert tour starting next month in Michigan. After more than two decades of on-and-off estrangement, the pair was inspired to launch Old Friends: The 2003 Concert Tour after reconciling for a warmly received performance of Sound of Silence at the Grammys last February...
Twenty-five years after the founding of the first gay student group at Harvard Law School (HLS), around 50 alumni returned to campus this weekend for another milestone: the nation’s first-ever reunion of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender graduates...
Geoffrey C. Upton ’99, who graduated from HLS in June and served as the chair of the reunion committee, deemed the reunion a success, despite a smaller turnout than the 150 alumni expected...
...held celebrations in recent years for its African-American and female alumni, but this is the first reunion for its GLBT alumni—in fact, as far as is known, this is the first such event at any law school in the nation. For both Harvard and the world of law, this reunion marks a significant milestone. Just months after the Supreme Court held anti-sodomy laws unconstitutional, this event, in its own small way, underscores the dramatic progress that gays and lesbians have made in the law and in American society during the past 25 years. It makes...
...this reunion is unusual in that many of the school’s gay and lesbian alumni have less than positive memories of their HLS experience. This I know first-hand. As part of an HLS project, I met with or interviewed by telephone about 85 of these GLBT graduates this past spring. I asked them what it was like to be gay at HLS when they were there, and whether they remembered their Harvard experience fondly. Some had graduated in the 1950s, before “being gay” meant anything to anyone. Others graduated just a couple...