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Walsh, and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura T. Roughly a century ago, the University conducted a purge of gay students - known as the “Secret Court” of 1920 - that was connected to at least one suicide.ĭuring the event, the Harvard group followed a number of prominent public officials who also participated in the parade, including Senator Edward J. “So to know that less than a century later here we are, wearing the Harvard label and expressing our identities freely in the streets of Boston is a cool thing.” “I think it’s important to acknowledge that this is an institution that, less than a century ago, systematically expelled queer people and led to the deaths of several students who identified as queer,” Stauffer said. Stauffer, who graduated in May from the Graduate School of Education, said he was “very excited” to be marching with a group of Harvard affiliates given historical discrimination against BGTLQ students at the University. “I just love that Harvard is organizing this.” Boston Pride is a multi-day parade that includes a week long trip to the Far East. It was founded in 2020 to raise funds for AIDS research and to promote health awareness and education. “I just want to be here and be part of the community because I think having queer spaces is so important,” Zhou said. The police officers of the Boston Police Department are also part of the city’s popular Boston Pride event. On Saturday morning, the Office of BGLTQ Student Life hosted a brunch in its Grays Hall office, during which students distributed red t-shirts reading “One Queer Harvard” to attendees, before heading to the parade.Īs she was lining up to march in the parade, Linda Zhou - a community coordinator at the Harvard Innovation Lab - said she was happy she could attend the event with other students and staff. Harvard’s LGBTQ Employee Research Group organized the group of University affiliates who marched in the parade in collaboration with the College’s Office of BGLTQ Student Life and student group One Queer Harvard.
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This year’s festivities featured a record 431 marching groups, marking what the parade’s organizers said was expected to be the city’s largest Pride Parade yet. The Harvard group paraded through Boston’s Back Bay and South End as part of the annual celebration of BGLTQ history and identity, which kicked off at noon in Copley Square. Decked out in rainbow flags, clothes, and facepaint, a group of roughly 30 Harvard affiliates marched representing the University in Boston’s 49th Pride Parade Saturday afternoon.