BU Law's LGBT Group Celebrates 30 Years of Service to Students and Society
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December 5, 2008 12:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/12/bu_laws_lgbt_group_celebrates_30_years_o.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2008/12/bu_laws_lgbt_group_celebrates_30_years_o.php)
Editor's Note: Dana Rudolph is the founder and publisher of Mombian, a blog and resource directory for LGBT parents. This post is originally published in Bay Windows, New England's largest LGBT newspaper.
danarudolph_200.jpgOutLaw, the LGBT student group at Boston University School of Law, began in 1978, the same year San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk was killed. Many of BU's current law students had not even been born then. On Nov. 14, however, they gathered with BU Law alumni and faculty at BU's Castle mansion to celebrate the group's 30th anniversary.
Maureen O'Rourke, Dean of BU's Law School, reminded the crowd of nearly 100 that in 1978, Dallas, Happy Days, and The Love Boat were the hit TV shows. A gallon of gas cost 63 cents. Since then, she said, LGBT rights and our society have changed greatly.