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...protection does not allow transgendered students to emerge and begin to challenge the culture of discrimination.“That you can be fired or not admitted to Harvard for not performing according to your gender identity is kind of jarring to a lot of people,” Thoreson says. “You wouldn’t think that’s fair grounds for dismissing or denying someone fair housing, but technically it still is.”According to activists, the issue is bigger than it seems. The nondiscrimination code doesn’t only affect...
...government ban on blood donations from men who have had sex with other men. The ban, implemented in 1990, is a policy imposed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). “I think the decision from the Red Cross is long overdue,” Ryan R. Thoreson ’07, one of the BGLTSA co-chairs, wrote in an e-mail. BGLTSA co-chair Mischa A. Feldstein ’07 said the current restriction is “a needlessly stigmatizing ban that doesn’t make sense.” Thoreson criticized...
...rationale for sex-segregated housing isn’t accidental pregnancy, it’s the it’s the idea that couples might room together and a break-up would be too traumatic for them to handle,” BGLTSA Co-President Ryan R. Thoreson ’07 wrote in an e-mail. “By using this rationale and ignoring the fact that the current system forces queer students to live with significant others all the time, the administration is either saying that queer relationships are qualitatively different from heterosexual ones or that...
...Capote.” But “Brokeback,” which garnered top honors at the Golden Globes, failed to turn in an encore performance at the Oscars last night. The co-chair of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA), Ryan R. Thoreson ‘07 provided perspective: “It was disappointing to see queer cinema lose the big awards, but this has been a landmark year for queer cinema,” said Thoreson. “I think this year’s films have been important because they?...
Students seem to be welcoming this new course with open arms. Ryan R. Thoreson ’07, who shopped the class and is the co-chair of the BGLSTA, wrote in a email that the course was “an important addition, because it’s a history that needs to be told and retold for a more complete understanding of history in the U.S. at large...