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Harvard, Navy to sign agreement on ROTC return

Jennifer Vanasco — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:00:14 +0000

(Boston) The Reserve Officer Training Corps’ four-decade exile from Harvard University campus ends Friday with an agreement that was spurred by a congressional vote allowing gays to serve openly(...)

Damage to Harvard books on gay issues an accident

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:30:48 +0000

(Cambridge, Mass.) A Harvard University dean says damage to three dozen books on gay and lesbian issues that appeared to have been doused in urine in a campus library was simply an(...)

Harvard pres: ROTC return if gays can openly serve

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:00:43 +0000

(Cambridge, Mass.) Harvard University’s president says the school will resume a long-banned Reserve Officer Training Corps program when federal law allows gays to serve openly in the(...)

Monday Watercooler: A weekend of memorials for dead students

James Withers — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:08:22 +0000

Bishop Long stays mum. Bishop Eddie Long is only offering cryptic comments about the sexual allegations against him. In his sermon yesterday he said something about not being “pulled into a(...)

Kagan set to break silence as hearings commence

logointern3 — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:00:49 +0000

(Washington) Elena Kagan, a trailblazer for women and the law, is hitting a new path that could be strewn with a few rough patches: Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on her Supreme Court(...)

Study: Sexual minorities more often exposed to violence

logointern1 — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:05:29 +0000

Sexual minorities – gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and heterosexuals who have had a same-sex partner – are more likely to have experienced violent events, in particular in childhood, and more(...)

Prop 8 trial: Historian says marriage about more than procreation

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:55:27 +0000

(San Francisco) A Harvard professor testifying in a case challenging California’s gay marriage ban said Tuesday that procreation is historically not the only function of marriage.

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Withers: Gates, Obama, Cambridge, and stupid

James Withers — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:17:24 +0000

Health care reform. Two wars (you all better be reading the articles of Michael Yon), an economy that gives everyone the shakes. Given all this the media kept its eye on one word used by(...)

Withers: What makes the news gay?

James Withers — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:38:29 +0000

One of the pleasures of writing here is the occasional fit some have over an entry they feel isn’t particularly gay. People will announce they come to 365 to read about gay stuff and anything(...)

Withers: Harvard African-American prof arrested in his own home

James Withers — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:06:14 +0000

Here is what you need to know about my bias in this story. There is a picture of Henry Louis Gates on my wall. He is standing at a lectern; I’m behind him and just introduced him at a(...)