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Harvard students celebrated yesterday the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance for the first time since the University took steps to protect its affiliates from discrimination on the basis of gender identity.
With that move, Harvard recognized that bias against transgender individuals might not be addressed by policies protecting gay men and lesbian women.
And the Boston area is certainly familiar with anti-transgender sentiment. The Day of Remembrance was established in 1999 to honor the death of Rita Hester, a transgender Allston resident who was stabbed to death the previous year.
Thoreson, a resident of Lowell House, is the co-chair of the Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporter Alliance (BGLTSA) and an active member in the Alternative Spring Break AIDS action project.
And over the course of the genteel discussion, in which the Dems questioned how they could better serve the BGLTSA community—perhaps the Dems’ cubicle in Hilles has a blue phone to Nancy Pelosi’s office?—a consensus emerged: Gay marriage...