Word: lambda
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...than a perverse life-style choice, as conservative moralists contend. And if that is true, then gays deserve legal protection similar to the laws that prohibit racial discrimination. "On a political level, genetic research does seem to move the debate along a certain path," says Denny Lee of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a gay advocacy group in New York City. "When people understand that being gay or lesbian is an integral characteristic, they are more open-minded about equality for gay Americans...
Hussein, a co-founder of the Massachusetts AreaSouth Asian Lambda Association (MASALA), whichbegan last year, said cultural approaches tosexuality in India are different from those in theU.S. He said Indian society does not discouragegay men from marrying while also maintaininghomosexual relationships...
...claim to be an indigenous Harvard phenomenon. Other students seeking a private space could help to explain the relatively recent advent of national fraternities and sororities. The appearance of women's Kappa Alpha Theta and Delta Gamma chapters in the last two years was accompanied by a chapter of Lambda Gamma Lambda, a predominantly Hispanic fraternity...
...earlier case called the act a "crime against nature." That ruling sent the child to his maternal grandmother Kay, who now plans an appeal. "I think it's a tragedy . . . to put him back in that environment," Kay Bottoms' lawyer told the press. Gay-rights attorneys, such as the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund's Evan Wolfson, said the case chisels away at a legal edifice in conservative states that assumes gay relationships harm children. "This court is an example to other courts as to how to limit bad precedents," Wolfson says...
...Carlos Vasquez, co-chair of the Law School's bisexual gay and lesbian student group Lambda, said he was concerned that the legislation could "be used with more force against gays and lesbians...