Queer Students and Allies
Harvard Today: Sept. 16, 2013
Happy Monday! Everyone’s favorite day of the week is upon us once again, so put a spring in your step as you bound out the door this morning, and check out what’s going on at Harvard today.
Queer Advisory Council Created To Discuss Issues in BGLTQ Community
The new Council will be made up of 13 voting undergraduate members drawn from BGLTQ-identified student groups and the College community at large.
Building a Community
Harvard's first director of BGLTQ student life, Vanidy "Van" Bailey, has prioritized forging connections across the University.
The Community Builder
Community members say without hesitation that Bailey’s first year on the job has been a successful one. Still, they say, problems remain for the BGLTQ community at Harvard.
The Drama Over Bullying: What's in a Word?
In this series, Flyby Staff Writer Olivia M. Munk identifies, dissects, and discusses ideas, articles, and opinions found in popular media and popular culture. She's here to inform you and to make you think—about what's out there, what it means to us, and what it might mean for you.
QSA, Libertarian Forum Protest U.S. Blood Donation Policy
The letters, signed by more than a quarter of Harvard undergraduates, protested a government policy that universally bans men who have had sex with other men from donating blood.
Gay and Female, Out and Alone
"I think the gay male population is much more visible than the lesbian community, and I don’t know why that is. It’s something I’ve always thought about, but I’m just not sure...I don’t think it’s something Harvard talks about a lot."
True Love, New Name
True Love Revolution no longer exists. Now, students say, the Anscombe Society exists not as a support group but as a community promoting abstinence, heterosexual marriage, and traditional gender roles.
Harvard Celebrates National Coming Out Day
A big rainbow flag flapped proudly from a tent outside Memorial Hall Thursday morning, contrasting against the gray metal fences and mounds of upturned dirt that surround the Science Center lawn.
At Harvard, It's Getting Better
When Brandy A. L. Machado ’14 began her freshman year, she told herself she would never come out of the closet. It took Machado an entire semester to decide that she would finally share her secret.
Harvard Picks First BGLTQ Director
Harvard has appointed Vanidy “Van” Bailey as the College’s first permanent director of bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender, and queer student life.
Epic Vaginas
CAARE speaker, Jincey Lumpkin, talks about female sexuality and the way it is portrayed in the media. She spoke about her own struggle and how she has worked to overcome it.
Jujubee at Drag Night
Jujubee, star of the television show RuPaul's Drag Race, performs as a special guest on Saturday night's Drag Night, held by Harvard's Queer Straight Alliance.
Queer Community Seeks Support
Some queer undergraduates say that they would like to see a Harvard where the student body and the administration consciously work toward full cohesion between the straight and gay communities.
Julie Goldman
Comedian Julie Goldman delivers a stand-up routine on being gay, Jewish mothers, women's restrooms, single-sex marriage, and babies. The talk, called "Laughter and Lezzing Out," was sponsored by QSA, GLOW, TTF, BAGELS, and RUS.
Groups Decide Not To Counter Westboro Baptist Church's Protest at Gomes' Service
Student organizations that have protested the Westboro Baptist Church in the past plan to ignore the group’s picket in Harvard Square this morning, according to student leaders from Harvard College Queer Students and Allies and the Harvard College Democrats.
Student Accuses Market Employee of Homophobia
A Harvard undergraduate may have been thrown out of Market in the Square by a homophobic clerk after kissing his boyfriend in the store early Sunday morning.
Religious Speakers Draw Ire, Protests
The controversial Social Transformation Conference—aimed at promoting “faith-based social transformation efforts,” according to its website—took place in the Northwest Science Building this weekend
Filmmaker Traces Evolution of ‘Intersex’
The Women’s Center handed the microphone at an event Friday to documentary filmmaker Robin Honan and intersex historian Elizabeth Reis to vocalize the crossroads of medical and social thought on intersex bodies.
Students “Come Out” as Feminists
College students across America “came out” as feminists yesterday, showing their support for women’s issues.
In the Bedroom, Out of the Box
Never before have so many vibrators, dildos, strap-ons, butt plugs, harnesses, and handcuffs graced the couches and chairs of Ticknor Lounge.