Word: sexualism
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...Harvard College and Harvard Business School alumnus, who graduated into the teeth of the Vietnam War in 1968 when the draft was in effect, and who was forced to lie at that time about my sexual orientation in order to enlist in the U.S. Navy, I resent to this day that I was forced to be dishonest in order to serve our country. Please be vocal in working to allow all citizens to serve in the military without compromising personal integrity...
...while these problems are worse for transgender people than they are for just about everyone else, gay, lesbian, and bisexual people also deal with similar issues to varying extents across the nation. Only 17 states have laws that protect citizens from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, and even where those laws exist, it is almost impossible to show that your sexual orientation (or gender identity/expression) is the reason an employer refused to hire you. And while public opinion is improving with regard to bisexual, gay, and lesbian Americans, discrimination is still a fact of life for those...
...comes out just before or after graduating high school, according to The New Gay Teenager, a book Harvard University Press published this summer. The book quotes a Penn State study of 350 young people from 59 gay groups that found that the mean age at which lesbians first have sexual contact with other girls is 16; it's just 14 for gay boys. In 1997 there were approximately 100 gay-straight alliances (GSAs)--clubs for gay and gay-friendly kids--on U.S. high school campuses. Today there are at least 3,000 GSAs--nearly 1 in 10 high schools...
Jennings is a spruce, fit, deeply ideological 42-year-old who wants government to spend money to combat anti-gay bias in schools. He often asserts that "4 out of 5" students have been harassed because of their sexual orientation. (He doesn't mention that GLSEN's last big survey, in 2003, found "a significant decline" since 2001 in the use of epithets like fag. Or that about the same proportion of kids--three-quarters--hears fag as hears sexist remarks.) Regardless, the pro-gay government programs he favors seem highly unlikely in this political environment. That's in part...
...Point candidates must prove both academic success and commitment to gay causes. Not surprisingly, many also have biographies resembling Lindstrom's--they come from conservative families that haven't immediately accepted them. Candidates must write an essay on "how you feel you have been marginalized because of your sexual orientation." When scholars were called upon to introduce themselves at the retreat, many offered heartbreaking stories of family repudiation. It was routine to hear sniffling during these presentations, especially from adults...