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- <text id=89TT1283>
- <title>
- May 15, 1989: American Notes:Harvard
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- May 15, 1989 Waiting For Washington
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 39
- American Notes
- HARVARD
- Gay Power 1, ROTC 0
- </hdr><body>
- <p> When the Harvard-Radcliffe Undergraduate Council decided
- last month to allow the Reserve Officers Training Corps back on
- campus for the first time since its tumultuous ouster in 1969,
- the university's Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Student Association
- protested, arguing that the military discriminates against
- homosexuals. A week later, the council reversed itself.
- </p>
- <p> That triumph two weeks ago was but one among several signs
- that gay power is burgeoning at Harvard. For the first time, an
- assistant dean, Jean Viggiani, has been delegated to deal with
- gay issues on campus. A tutor specializing in gay concerns has
- been assigned to each of Harvard's undergraduate houses. About
- 1,000 pink triangles offered to sympathizers for the Gay
- Awareness celebration were gone in a record three days.
- </p>
- <p> Lesbian couples now appear at Radcliffe's formal Senior
- Soiree, and gays routinely dance together at Harvard events.
- That can sometimes lead to friction. In February a ruckus broke
- out when a gay student asked the younger brother of a straight
- student to dance. Gay students soon after staged a "kiss-in" to
- protest alleged harassment. Says Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian
- co-chair Kelly Dermody: "This year was wild."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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