When the walls come down
Hoping to break down social barriers and jump-start collective action symbolized by the 1969 Stonewall Inn riots in New York, LGBTQ students from Harvard Business School (HBS), Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), and Harvard Law School (HLS) will host the first campus-wide conference dedicated to LGBTQ issues this weekend. The idea for a wider conversation in the LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual, and queer) community first came up during an HBS student retreat last year, as many talked about wanting to build broader and stronger ties with other LGBTQ students in the area, but not having a vehicle to do so, said Ana Mendy, co-president of the LGBT Student Association at HBS and one of the conference organizers. “We’re a small community and it seemed silly that we were isolated across the river without knowing who the other LGBTQ students were at Harvard. We all agreed that we should be coordinating and getting...