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Twenty students organized the first undergraduate gay liberation group at Harvard last week.
The group, the Harvard-Radcliffe Gay Students Association, was started to provide a place for gay students to socialize and escape from the heterosexual pressures of the Harvard and Cambridge communities.
A spokesman for the group, Eugene High tower '74 said, "Gay people need a place where they can go and talk and begin to relate to themselves as gay."
Hightower said the long range goal of the group was to get the Harvard community to "examine its own sexuality." He said that he hoped to organize forums where homosexuality would be discussed openly.
Hightower stated that he would invite speakers to discuss homosexuality "not as a sickness but as an orientation." Such speakers, he said, "would help the Harvard community deal with gay people as people, not as people with a disease."
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