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...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...
...expansion of the overtly gay population, have been forced by the political debates and activism of the last year to recognize its existence: "It is interesting to hear Bok or Rosovsky refer to the 'gay community.' It never would have occured to them to do so a year ago," Schatz says...
Having established that gays exist at Harvard, launching the second stage--winning of equal rights--will come with time, gay students believe. "Truth is on our side," Flaherty says. "Gays are being discriminated against and eventually they will have to acknowledge it." Schatz echoes that conviction: The University will inevitably come to understand their position, Schatz says, because "we are obviously right. Everyone knows gays are discriminated against, because everybody does it. When they meet us and see we are not ogres and lechers, they have to recognize our humanity...