BGALA Recognized by MIT for Gay in the Day Event

Sept 29, 2007, Cambridge MA - Stan Zanarotti, President of BGALA, accepted a Presidential Commendation from MIT President Susan Hockfield, for the BGALA Gay in the Day event. Stan and BGALA VP Andy Rubinson also had the pleasure of attending a special dinner with the president and other award winners on Sept. 28th at the Hotel@MIT. BGALA would like to thank all the people involved in making the Gay in the Day event possible.

MIT makes the top 100 LGBT schools

The Advocate, the national newsmagazine for gays and lesbians, published a 389-page book this month listing the 100 schools that it says offer the best discrimination protection, most friendly climate, and most extensive campus services for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered students. Sixteen of the schools are in New England, including six in Massachusetts.

MIT, for one, made the top 100. The school is cited for having one of the nation's oldest gay and lesbian student groups and for early on including both sexual orientation and gender identity in its nondiscrimination policy, yielding what the book, The Advocate College Guide, calls a high ``gay point average."

Click on the link above for the full article.

Story on Gay in the Day Event

BGALA recently presented a panel discussion with alumni from the 60's through 90's, discussing their experiences of being gay at MIT over the decades.

Please click on the link to read the full article on BGALA's Gay in the Day Panel from MIT's Tech talk.

National Membership Meeting - Jan '06

BGALA held our First Annual National BGALA Meeting on Saturday January 7, 2006! It was a big success. Proceedings of the meeting are in the PowerPoint presentation linked below.


BGALA National Meeting Results