Word: schatz
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Despite the influx of lesbian support, the next few months for GOOD organizers were deeply discouraging. "We had very little experience organizing," Schatz recalls. "We called a meeting of GOOD and no one showed up, and we called another meeting and no one showed up and we called yet another meeting and again no one showed up..." He xeroxed 2000 leaflets on gay rights and distributed them at registration in Memorial Hall. He tried to recruit friends to join in, but "most people would only stay for five or ten minutes. It was a very hard thing to stand there...
...office and getting a gay hotline. The University announced the office was closed, because it wasn't being used, and only after several gay students demonstrated to the administration that it was indeed in use, were they allowed to keep the office--a basement room in Memorial Hall. Schatz also arranged a gay hotline after hearing that a large percentage of the phone calls that Room 13, the student counseling service, receives are related to gay concerns. The phone, with an extension on Schatz's room so he could man it in the wee hours of the morning, rang...
...showed the closeted gay people there were a lot of gay people out here." Flaherty says. It also clued in non-gays to the sheer number of gays on campus. And, as many students suddenly became aware that their friends were gay, they were less cavalier about telling what Schatz calls "fag jokes." After GLAD Day, GOOD organizers could go into dining halls and announce a gay rights event without having to confront 100 mocking faces or duck missiles of cafeteria food. Before GLAD Day, Schatz recalls "the grisly response" when he and others stood in dining halls...
Other administrators and faculty who disapprove of homosexuality, and particularly of the public stance gays at Harvard recently have taken, privately create difficulties for gay students. Several gay students recall nasty inuendos and occasional taunts directed at them from instructors. One of Schatz's teachers refused to grant him extra computer time, although he had granted it to his other students, to finish a data analysis for a sociology research project on attitudes toward gays, and further told Schatz his subject was worthless. One other student remembers separate private conversations each of them had with the same high-ranking administrative...
...students fairly. Dr. Warren E. C. Wacker, director of UHS, spoke before a GSA meeting and has taken the lead in "sensitizing" physicians and psychiatrists. Nevertheless, most counselors at UHS still regard homosexuality as an indication of psychological distress and confusion that needs treatment, several gay students say. Schatz, whose medical record includes the fact that he is gay, is now tested for venereal disease whenever he goes to UHS. "When I had water on the knee, they tested me for VD. And when I broke my arm, the doctor didn't accept my reasons. He thought it was some...