Tag: LGBT

  • Nation & World

    Will a historically diverse new coalition bring big changes to Israel?

    Robert Danin, a career U.S. diplomat, and Tzipi Livni, former foreign minister and vice prime minister of Israel, discuss the potentially historic moment in Israeli politics as a coalition tries to end the 12-year run of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
  • Work & Economy

    Opening health care access to trans community

    Soltan Bryce, an M.B.A. student and trans man, leads the growth of a digital startup that’s bringing much-needed health care to the historically neglected trans community.

    Soltan Bryce.
  • Nation & World

    A global look at LGBT violence and bias

    Q&A with Victor Madrigal-Borloz, the U.N. independent expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

    Victor Madrigal-Borloz
  • Campus & Community

    Champion of equity and social justice

    For almost three decades, Joan Reede has made diversity and inclusion part of Harvard Medical School’s mission.

    Joan Reede
  • Campus & Community

    Finding comfort at home and here

    A Harvard undergraduate who now calls two coasts home learns to bridge the 3,000-mile gap.

  • Science & Tech

    What it means when ‘The Doctor Is Out’

    What happens when homophobia hits the hospital? “The Doctor Is Out: A Conversation with Dr. Mark Schuster on Being a Gay Physician at Harvard” was part of Harvard Medical School’s Diversity Dialogue series.

  • Nation & World

    Legal champion of gay rights

    During a luncheon discussion at Harvard Law School with Dean Martha Minow, Mary Bonauto reflected on 25 years of seeking equal treatment under law.

  • Campus & Community

    On Tax Day, a step toward equality

    Under federal law, same-sex couples pay taxes on spousal medical coverage that their heterosexual married coworkers do not. Starting this month, Harvard will help LGBT employees and their families offset those costs with a tax equalization payment of $1,500 a year, the University announced April 15.

  • Nation & World

    Progress, but no letup

    In the LGBT community, “equal rights does not necessarily mean equal lives,” Tim McCarthy, an activist and Harvard lecturer, told a Harvard Kennedy School audience on July 11. With that in mind, he and a group of researchers at the Face Value project are aiming to combat real-world stigma, not just legal discrimination.

  • Nation & World

    Caring voices

    The Harvard Graduate School of Education on July 26 released a powerful video in support of the It Gets Better Project. The four-minute video features faculty, staff, and students sharing personal accounts of their childhood experiences and providing support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth.

  • Campus & Community

    The HGLC announces fellowship for summer 2010

    The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus (HGLC) is encouraging all current full-time students at Harvard to apply to the HGLC Public Service Fellowship, made possible with support from The Open Gate Foundation.

  • Nation & World

    Don’t ask, don’t lie

    Lt. Dan Choi — West Pointer, Iraq infantry veteran, Arabic linguist, and Baptist minister — speaks out against “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy after getting the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard’s first Service to Humanity award.

  • Nation & World

    Carr Center awards Traub-Dicker Fellowships for summer 2009

    The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) has awarded Traub-Dicker-HKS Fellowships for the summer of 2009 to Benjamin Hall and Baylee DeCastro. Hall and DeCastro will spend the summer researching in the domain of policies affecting the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities.

  • Campus & Community

    Groundbreaking professorship in LGBT studies

    Harvard has received a $1.5 million gift from the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus (HGLC) to endow the F.O. Matthiessen Visiting Professorship of Gender and Sexuality. Harvard Overseer Mitchell L. Adams ’66, M.B.A. ’69, will inform participants at the annual HGLC Commencement dinner that a campaign spanning several years has reached its goal. Named after…

  • Campus & Community

    Tribe and Ochs honored by Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus

    The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus (HGLC) announced May 13 that it will present its Veritas Award to Laurence H. Tribe ’62, J.D. ’66, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor. As one of the nation’s foremost constitutional law experts, Tribe has advocated for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights for more than a…

  • Nation & World

    LGBT conference on ‘Politics, Policy and Progress’ at HKS

    On Friday (April 24) the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) will host a conference titled “Politics, Policy, and Progress: Gay Rights as Human Rights.” Among the many guests in attendance will be Lance Black, the Oscar award-winning screenwriter for “Milk.” The event, beginning at 12:30 p.m., will take place at the Kennedy School, with panels in…

  • Campus & Community

    Carr Center receives gift to support LGBT research

    The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) is now offering the Traub-Dicker-HKS Summer Research Fellowship to support research by HKS students interested in human rights issues affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities.

  • Arts & Culture

    Appreciating Billie Jean King’s contribution to second-wave feminism

    In a stately room in the Barker Center, flanked by portraits of famous men, Billie Jean King holds court. Not physically. She’s the topic of discussion, the name on everyone’s lips. One would think this were the after party of her notorious 1973 “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match with Bobby Riggs, the match she…

  • Campus & Community

    In Brief

    Harvard LGBT reunion set for September; Reischauer Institute seeks papers on Japan-related topics; HMNH publication captures prize

  • Campus & Community

    In brief

    Harvard LGBT reunion event set for September; Modern Greek Studies Program offering Ph.D. fellowship

  • Campus & Community

    In brief

    HARVARD LGBT REUNION EVENT SET FOR SEPTEMBER “From the Closet to a Place at the Table: Celebrating 25 Years of the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus” — the first-ever, all-School, all-class reunion weekend for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) alumni/ae, faculty, staff, and students — will be held Sept. 26-28. Co-sponsored by the Harvard…

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus names this year’s award recipient

    The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus (HGLC) has announced that Martin Duberman Ph.D. ’57 will receive the HGLC Founding Father Award. It will be presented to Duberman at the caucus’ annual Commencement Day dinner (June 5) at Lowell House.

  • Campus & Community

    In brief

    “Legends in Queer Performance: Can Theater Change the World?” The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics is now accepting applications from graduate students for its 2008-09 fellowship in ethics.