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Contents:

• GAY PARENTS AS GOOD AS STRAIGHT ON
• HOW GAY-FRIENDLY IS BU?
• BOSTON UNIVERSY CELEBRAT GAY NNER DURG SCHOOL’S 1ST PRI WEEK
• BOSTON UNIVERSY ‘OUT LIST’ CONNECTS GAY STUNTS AND TEACHERS
• THE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO BOSTON: THE BT GAY BARS, DRAG EVENTS AND MORE

GAY PARENTS AS GOOD AS STRAIGHT ON

Universy on History Project’s Stonewall 50 map for area’s first publicly advertised gay stunt group.

HOW GAY-FRIENDLY IS BU?

” It was placed there this month to memorate BU’s role the cy’s gay rights movement: the GSU was the meetg spot of the first anized gay stunt group the area, the Boston Universy Stunt Homophile League, which began durg the 1969–1970 school year. At the time, homosexualy was a crimal offence and the gay muny saw the bar—and others like —as their safe haven.

Patrons rted for several days followg the raid, advotg for the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people. Among the spots listed are Boston Cy Hall, where three gay upl who had fought urt for the legalizatn of same-sex marriage signed their marriage licens 2004, after Massachetts beme the first US state to issue marriage licens to same-sex upl; the now-closed lbian bar the Sats; and Fenway Health, which has worked sce 1971 to make life healthier and safer for the LGBT muny, people livg wh HIV/AIDS, and the broar populatn.

The History Project asked Steve Rso (CAS’72), one of the foundg members and print of the BU Stunt Homophile League, to wre the teractive map’s BU blurb.

BOSTON UNIVERSY CELEBRAT GAY NNER DURG SCHOOL’S 1ST PRI WEEK

He has posive memori of beg gay on mp. The admistratn was supportive, and the Stunt Unn agreed to help fund , a “tone” for a gay stunt group, he says.

“On ocsn, ” Rso wr the Stonewall 50 entry, “gay stunt groups om other lleg held meetgs, but more stunts om those lleg me to the BU socials, as those lleg’ stunts were leery to be seen gog to meetgs by people they knew at their own stutns. Rso says no gay faculty member was willg to sponsor the group, but Rev. He found the anizatn GLAD, or Gay and Lbian Advot and Defenrs, now known as the GLBTQ Legal Advot & Defenrs, the late 1970s after an famo Boston Police stg unjtly entrapped gay men at the Boston Public Library (BPL).

BOSTON UNIVERSY ‘OUT LIST’ CONNECTS GAY STUNTS AND TEACHERS

) About 15 years later, Ward beme the first openly gay male lawyer to argue a se ont of the US Supreme Court.

When the Supreme Court took up the issue of gay marriage last month, Jtice Anton Slia claimed that experts bate whether same-sex parents are bad for children.

Siegel, a School of Medice profsor of pediatrics, thored a report, published by the Amerin Amy of Pediatrics the week before the urt se, argug that three s of rearch ncur that kids of gay parents are dog jt fe. In an terview wh BU Today, Siegel acknowledg the lims of all this rearch: none of the studi has been a randomized, ntrolled trial—the Holy Grail of scientific vtigatn—and all studi of gay parentg are necsarily small, sce there aren’t many gay parents.

THE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO BOSTON: THE BT GAY BARS, DRAG EVENTS AND MORE

The report c timat that gay upl and sgle parents are raisg almost two ln Amerin children.

Do he expect the report to fluence eher the high urt or state legislatur batg gay marriage and adoptn?