Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...newly-released book, "With Wings," an anthology of the experiences of women with disabilities. "In 1971 I was in a women's bookstore and just happened to pick up the book 'Our Bodies, Ourselves' [by the Boston Women's Health Book Collective]." The book discusses women's sexual politics and roles. "I realized that with my disability I just didn't fit into that book. I knew that the clear goal that loomed before me was to define feminism in terms that women with disabilities could relate...
...Sexual orientation is only one of the manyissues that arise when students from differentbackgrounds suddenly find themselves a part ofthis community. Harvard prides itself on being acommunity of diversity, with people of manydifferent races, cultures, religions, ethnicities,talents and politics...
Those first two meetings also present a problembecause a number of issues are presented in a waythat does not encourage dialogue. For example,students are usually told that they will bepunished if they harass someone because of his orher sexual orientation. But students may notrealize that they can talk to their proctor aboutquestions of sexual identity...
Nonetheless, gay, lesbian and bisexual leadersalso say that more efforts need to be made toteach freshmen about tolerance. They say thatsince most gay freshmen are still in the closet,their classmates are not forced to confrontdifferent sexual preferences directly andtherefore have an additional year in which todevelop homophobic attitudes...
...being used to clear blood vessels is balloon angioplasty, in which a tiny collapsed balloon is threaded into a blocked passage and inflated. Atherosclerotic plaque is crushed against the artery walls, widening the blood pathway. Yet another delicate operation entails tying off penile veins that fail to close during sexual arousal, thus allowing blood to leak away from the penis and inhibiting an erection. Vascular operations carry steep price tags...