[From the Winter, 1997 issue of The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Newsletter]

Caucus Lecture Series Thrives

The Caucus has sponsored a vigorous and well-attended series of lectures at Harvard during the current academic year, largely through the extraordinary efforts of George Richwine:
  • David Tuller's interesting talk about gays and lesbians in Russia was delivered to a diverse and attentive audience of about 25 people on Oct. 21. 1996.
  • The following evening, David Mixner talked with some 60 students at an Institute of Politics/HGLC Pizza and Politics session, then spoke to a rapt audience of 80-90 at a public talk sponsored by The Review and The Open Gate.
  • Reverend Peter J. Gomes filled Emerson 305 again on November 7, delivering the Caucus' Burton Ross Pierce Lecture, on the subject of his important new book, The Good Book�Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart.
  • On Nov. 16, an enthusiastic audience heard and questioned Rep. Barney Frank and two superb panels at a Harvard Law School symposium (supported by The Open Gate) on the political, legal and moral issues confronting the gay rights movement.
  • The Caucus also sponsored popular talks by gay rights activist and former conservative Marvin Liebman on Nov. 18;
  • Chris Bull and John Gallagher, co-authors of Perfect Enemies -- the Religious Right, the Gay Movement, and the Politics of the 1990s, on Dec. 3; and
  • Chandler Burr, author of A Separate Creation -- The Search for the Biological Origins of Sexual Orientation, on Feb. 5, 1997.
  • Prof. Bernadette Brooten, author of Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism, delivered the Caucus� Alice Belton Lecture on Feb. 24.


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