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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."
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