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...members (nicknamed "Fruits in Suits"); the openly gay president of a well-known ad agency, a gay Wall Street lunch club and a group called the National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals; and on an openly gay second-year Harvard B-school student named Jonathan Rotenberg...
...Rotenberg, 28, is a member of the Harvard Business School Gay and Lesbian Students Association. It was founded in 1979, around the same time, coincidentally, that Rotenberg, then 13, founded the Boston Computer Society. (He remains its chairman.) The Boston Computer Society -- the most influential computer-users group in the world, with 32,000 dues-paying members in 45 countries -- is larger than the Harvard Business School Gay and Lesbian Students Association, but since arriving at Harvard, Rotenberg has devoted more of his time to G.L.S.A...
Last semester Rotenberg and his cohort distributed a pamphlet to everyone on campus. "There's something a bunch of your classmates would like to tell you," read the front cover, continuing inside, "It's not easy being gay at Harvard Business School." The pamphlet acknowledged that "sexual orientation is a topic that makes many people uncomfortable" -- an understatement on a par with original estimates for bailing out the savings and loan industry. Yet Rotenberg says his classmates and colleagues have been almost uniformly positive, both before and after his appearance in FORTUNE. His hot line (not mentioned in FORTUNE...
...potential military uses. But with the exception of the South African ban, there are no regulations preventing the sale of relational-data- base systems to countries that lack basic constitutional safeguards. "The U.S. claims to have a role as the moral leader in protecting freedom and democracy," complains Marc Rotenberg, Washington director of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. "But we are becoming surveillance- technology merchants to the world...
Despite all the blandishments, some prominent software firms chose to ignore the show, while others complained that it failed to attract enough computer dealers. But even before last week's exhibits were packed up, Jonathan Rotenberg, 20, the founder of the Boston Computer Society and co-organizer of the show, was already working up plans for next year. He hopes to have another software extravaganza in New Orleans plus one in Los Angeles. His confident prediction: "We will be mobbed." -By Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Reported by Michael Moritz/New Orleans