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Title: Comments on gay youth stir up crowd
Post by: Hazumu on February 22, 2008, 07:11:20 AM
Jazz Vakhshoorzadeh
Issue date: 2/22/08 Section: News

The Daily Free Press (http://media.www.dailyfreepress.com/media/storage/paper87/news/2008/02/22/News/Comments.On.Gay.Youth.Stir.Up.Crowd-3228961.shtml)

"Harvard University students objected to a guest speaker's use of the term "minority" and an apparent lack of concern shown for transgender people during a presentation about the discrimination against homosexual youth yesterday.

About 50 students and faculty turned out for a talk by Children's Hospital adolescent and young adult medicine instructor Heather Corliss at the Harvard School of Public Health. Some said calling gay, lesbian and bisexual youth a "minority" is wrong because of the stigma attached to the term."