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...everyone is so grateful; after Schatz's name appeared in a Boston Globe article on gays at Harvard, he received an anonymous letter threatening his life and attacking homosexuality in bitter and violent language. Schatz was shaken, but only temporarily: "I also got two fan letters this week; one death threat to two fan letters; that's not a bad record," he says...
...assembling the political machinery necessary, Schatz quickly learned he could not press GSA into service. "I knew if I wanted to be political, I had to be outside of GSA." So he founded GOOD and asked Gaye Williams '83, president of RLA, to serve as co-chair, making the start of gay and lesbian political unity...
Williams, who was out of town and unavailable for comment, is mentioned frequently with admiration by gays and lesbians at Harvard. "She is a one-woman network." Schatz says of Williams, who is also president of the Black Students Association. Williams pressured GOOD and GSA into considering feminist issues in meetings and into including a discussion of feminism and lesbianism at the GLAD days. Laurie Knight '83-2, a member of GSA and RLA, points out that this year for the first time GSA's membership is "approaching parity" between men and women. "Much of the huge torrent of activity...
Despite the influx of lesbian support, the next few months for GOOD organizers were deeply discouraging. "We had very little experience organizing," Schatz recalls. "We called a meeting of GOOD and no one showed up, and we called another meeting and no one showed up and we called yet another meeting and again no one showed up..." He xeroxed 2000 leaflets on gay rights and distributed them at registration in Memorial Hall. He tried to recruit friends to join in, but "most people would only stay for five or ten minutes. It was a very hard thing to stand there...
...office and getting a gay hotline. The University announced the office was closed, because it wasn't being used, and only after several gay students demonstrated to the administration that it was indeed in use, were they allowed to keep the office--a basement room in Memorial Hall. Schatz also arranged a gay hotline after hearing that a large percentage of the phone calls that Room 13, the student counseling service, receives are related to gay concerns. The phone, with an extension on Schatz's room so he could man it in the wee hours of the morning, rang...