2/1/00
- If you're currently a full-time student at any school of the University, be sure to check out the HGLC Public Service Fellowship 2000. Applications are due March 15th, 2000.
- Diana Adair, AB '98 was recently elected co-chair of the Caucus for the 99-00 term serving with Tom Kelly, AB '86. She is a graduate of the colllege, where she co-founded Girl Spot and supervised the BGLTSA Resource Center. After graduation, Adair worked on the Christine Kehoe for Congress campaign in San Diego. She has also worked for the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League in Washington, DC. Adair currently resides in San Francisco, where she works for Fleishman-Hillard, a public relations agency, handling technology clients. Recruiting more recent graduates, women and people of color are some of Adair's goals for the Caucus. In addition, she would like to work to establish the annual HGLC Public Service Fellowship for a student at any school of the University. She can be reached at [email protected].
6/10/99
- Judge Debbie Batts gave a speech at the 1999 HGLC Dinner at Commencement. Here's a transcript of her speech.
7/1/99
- Harvard and Radcliffe alumni figure prominently on the list of 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Novels just released by Publishing Triangle, a professional organization of gay men and lesbians in the book publishing field. The list was selected by a panel of 14 judges from 574 novels. It contains seven novels by five Harvard authors: THE BOSTONIANS # 27 and THE TURN OF THE SCREW #40 by Henry James (HLS, 1862-63); THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS #25 and THREE LIVES #57 by Gertrude Stein (Radcliffe, 1898); NAKED LUNCH by William Burroughs #52 (1936, Adams House); THE GALLERY #48 by John Horne Burns (1937, Dunster); and DANCER FROM THE DANCE #15 by Andrew Holleran (1965, Lowell). No other college had as many books by alumni on the list -- Harvard must be doing something right. To access the complete list, go to Publishing Triangle's Web site: www.publishingtriangle.org. This is an interactive site, so you can add your comments and your candidates for the best gay and lesbian novels.
- Full time Harvard students are now invited to join the Caucus as associate members. They receive a free copy of our 1998 Membership Directory as well as three free issues of the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Newsletter every year. There are no required dues for student members but they may choose to pay $10 annual dues and receive four issues of the Review. Student members have all privileges of membership except voting, which is limited to alumni/ae, faculty and staff.
9/24/98We've added a Volunteer Opportunities page.
7/1/98The Caucus is hosting a new Queer Harvard Events Calendar that is intended to be a master list of glbt events at Harvard and Radcliffe. We hope that this will help avoid conflicts as well as serving as a central information resource. (Thanks to Active Window Productions, Inc. for setting this up and providing the Caucus' other web services.)
- Caucus Co-Chair Tom Kelly announced at the Annual Commencement Dinner on June 4, 1998, that the members of the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus, Inc. have elected five new members of its Board of Directors, to serve two-year terms: Sarah Duncan, Richard Schneider, Leng Lim, Tom Parry and Professor Ann Pellegrini. Tom also announced that the Board has elected Sarah Duncan as a Co-Chair of the Caucus, succeeding Kevin Jennings.
- Chai Feldblum, JD '85, will speak at the Caucus' Annual Commencement Dinner on June 4, 1998. Professors Diana Eck and Dorothy Austin will be honored at the dinner with the Caucus' first Visibility Award, presented by the Boston-Cambridge Chapter.
- We have added several articles to our Newsletter pages.
- The letters to the editor concerning Andy Tobias' recent Harvard Magazine article make interesting, and sobering, reading. The letters about the letters are rather more encouraging. The letters about the letters about the letters (scroll down a bit) may be the last word for the moment in this extraordinary conversation.
- Professor Diana L. Eck has been named Master of Lowell House, and her partner, Dorothy A. Austin, Th.D. 81, has been named Co-Master. They will succeed Prof.. and Mrs. William H. Bossert at the end of the term. This is the first time that an openly gay or lesbian person has been named as the Master of a Harvard House, and the first time that a same-sex couple have been named Co-Masters. For details see an article in The Harvard Crimson. They will be honored with the Caucus' Visibility Award at our Annual Commencement Dinner on June 4, 1998.
- We have added a members only section to the Caucus web pages, for material which we want to make available to our members but not to the general public. At present this area contains archives of past news and events updates and the beginnings of a Caucus history project. The members only area requires a user name and password, which you can get - if you are a Caucus member - by sending an e-mail message to [email protected].
- Links have been added to our websites page for Jarrett Tomas Barrios AB '90-91 (candidate for the Massachusetts House of Representatives) and for EGALE - Canadian advocacy group (Equality for Gays & Lesbians Everywhere).
- We have added a few pictures to our Local Chapters page and to our Who's Who page.
- The January/February issue of Harvard Magazine includes an article on gay Harvard alumni by Andy Tobias.
- We're pleased to add a link to the new web page for the Harvard Medical School student group, the Kinsey 2-6ers.
- The November/December issue of Harvard Magazine published a biographical sketch on Mark Harrington '81 ('83), including reproduction of a postcard that drew a homophobic letter in the following issue.
- The Philadelphia chapter held its first event on Tuesday, October 28.
- We are pleased to host the web page for GospelFest for AIDS [although this event did not take place in 1997].
- The Caucus has incorporated as Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus, Inc., a Massachusetts not-for-profit corporation, and its Corporate Documents have been added.
- We've added a photograph of Sarah Duncan to the who's who page.
- Here's a photograph of the Harvard contingent at Boston's Gay Pride March on June 7, 1997. Leading the way are Brian Jung, MPH 97, and Scott Campea, AB 97. And here's another photograph of the Harvard group.
- Sheila Kuehl, JD 78, has won a two-year term as a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College (one of two University-wide governing boards)..
- Harvard's Memorial Church announced a new policy, effective July 1, 1997, which allows religious ceremonies of commitment between members of the same sex, at least one of whom is affiliated with the University.
