The Ivy League insitution will invite visiting scholars to teach on sexuality and issues related to sexual minorities for one term each.
While other universities have course offerings and degree programs in sexuality studies, Harvard’s healthy endowment allows the professorship on the subject to be funded in perpetuity, the first university in the country to do so.
The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus raised $1.5 million (£920,000) to fund the role, to be known as the “F.O. Matthiessen Visiting Professorship of Gender and Sexuality”.
It was named after the American studies scholar and literary critic, F.O. Matthiessen, who died in 1950, after he chaired an undergraduate program in history and literature at Harvard, where he kept his homosexuality largely secret.
The chair is being seen as a turning point in the history of the university.
“For 25 years we’ve been in somewhat antagonistic position to the university, pushing it to recognise lesbian and gay rights. Its recognition of the professorship marks a totally new sense of the relationship,” said Warren Goldfarb, a professor of philosophy at the university.
Prof Parry also admitted that the new academic programme was an attempt to catch up with rival universities, adding: “Harvard has been fairly far behind other institutions.”
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My daughter Elizabeth is gay and so am I. I personally initiated her into the gay lifestyle because I was abused for 23 years in my marriage to a white man. I am white. My other daughter prefers black men, and I have two half black grandchildren. I am a Christian. You people are dirty filthy hate mongering bigots. Gays and blacks are the nicest people in the world. My daughter and I both date black women, and it is so true that once you go black you never go back. If you are a clean,gay,and black female email me. I am an equal opportunity lover. May God bless you racists and bring you to his loving son, Jesus. [email protected]
My Resume would look little better if it boasted a degree in buggery,maybe if i wanted a career change to a national TV presenter but those positions are already taken.
I’m not a gay but still think there is nothing wrong to be a gay.. it’s their life, their own life.. so who are you/we to ask them what to do with their adult life?!!
Hey closet-homo DIDI.
this is from the BBC and from D-Day: read WHO were executed in France and in Italy for sexual crimes:
“Of 29 soldiers executed for rape by the US military authorities, 25 were black.” – BBC.
25 NIGGERS OUT OF 29…
In Italy several black GIs were also executed. Of was the father of Emmett Till. He raped multiple Italian women and murdered one of them…”
Black = african = nigger.
DIDI is a closet-fag. Which means he has no self-respect and therefore he feels ashamed. Shame comes out when he noticed he loves boys, they younger is the better for him. This is due since his father molested him in the age of 6. DIDI lost his ”virginity” at that time…
He is also lock of knowledge, otherwise he would know: homosexuality is a genetic misfunction and part of the racial profile of jews. And jews are NOT whites, they are Semites, a mix of 4 different bloods, including african.
Regarding homosexuality, if you look at this site, you can see the ”color of crime”, niggers, latrinos, homo perverts and other criminals. The FBI statistics also prove that ONLY Asian and Whites are law-abiding citizens in USA.
I am strongly convinced that DIDI is one those childmolesters who try to derail the attention from themselves and point his finger on others, while in fact, HE IS a dangerous homo and sex-offender…
DIDI, tell us how can you find ”love” in another man’s hairy, shitty ass?
99.9% of gays and peadophiles in the world are whites and 99.9% of whites are either gays or peadophiles or both!Obama is helping you out!Be proud of yourselves
I am new to the States. I was shocked to see how little importance Americans give to moral values as against hedonism. I soon realized I’m not the only one appalled by this. Read what I have to say about america’s declining morality and let me know if my observations have been wrong..I’ll be glad to disabuse myself if I have built any wrong notions about this country
http://writentalk.blogspot.com/2009/07/america-and-decline-of-morality.html