Word: thoreson
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...years ago, the first Day of Silence was organized by students at the University of Virginia. Attracting about 150 students its first year, the protest spread rapidly as one year later, almost 100 colleges and univerisities participated. At Harvard, the Day of Silence was organized by Ryan R. Thoreson ’07 and Mischa A. Feldstein ’07, last year’s co-chairs of the Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGTLSA). A silent lunch for participants in Winthrop House was sparsely attended, but Rachel K. Popkin...
...huge stigma to say that we respect you but we still think you’re crazy and won’t pay for your surgery,” Lewis said. The rally, which lasted for about an hour and half, was live-blogged on cambridgecommon.com by Ryan R. Thoreson ’07, co-chair of the Harvard Bixexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) and a member of the Trans Task Force. Reactions to the rally were “really positive,” Thoreson said. Greg M. Sensing, an administrative assistant in the Harvard University...
...delay a vote while other council members frantically called student group leaders to attend the council meeting. By the time they had exhausted parliamentary procedure, UC members had successfully courted several members of the Black Students Association and Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance Co-Chair Ryan R. Thoreson ’07 to lobby against the legislation. Both student groups have said they do not support granting UC funding to student groups that discriminate in their membership. Former UC Vice President Clay T. Capp ’06 also showed up in the middle of the meeting...
...terms of numbers, Harvard’s transgender population is small compared to the size of the entire community. This detracts, however, from neither the symbolic value of the statement nor the real impact it will have on those directly affected by the new policy. According to Ryan A. Thoreson ’07, co-chair of the Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transsgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) and a member of the TTF, prevailing societal opinions now make publicly indentifying as transgender extremely difficult. “The change in code signals a willingness on the part of Harvard...
...Discrimination of housing, bathroom use, locker rooms, any gender space is a reality for many transgender students,” said Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) co-chair, Ryan A. Thoreson ’07, who is also a member of TTF. “The non-discrimination code goes about a way of addressing that kind of discrimination and violence on campus...